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Some REITs like small
Even in the throes of what some are calling the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, some real estate investment trusts -- those...
Holding the line
Expanded to 400 pages from the three-page version that was drafted by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and rejected by the House on September 30,...
Lemons to lemonade
Such value-added plays spell success for KWMF, even in these turbulent times. A case in point is Summer House, a rental community in Alameda,...
Vacancies rise as job loss impacts renters
Job losses outweighed the increase in demand for apartments from former or would-be home owners, said Sam Chandan, chief economist of real estate research...
An inside job
Companies might be better off investing in training fresh recruits with little experience in an industry so the companies can have more control over...
Denver delivers
Transaction velocity has maintained a steady pace during the last year, fueled by Denver's healthy long-term prospects," Adam Christofferson, Marcus & Millichap's regional manager...
Beautiful Ohio
Out of the apartment-construction business for about five years, Don Kenney has formed a company called Metro Development that will build several apartment complexes...
Workplace conflict: productivity killer or creative mojo
The study, which polled thousands of workers worldwide, reveals a substantial cost of workplace conflict. It found that workplace conflict is nearly universal, with...
The great urban-rural divide
To be sure, the most visible red vs. blue differences in party support and voter turnout can largely be explained by variations in the...
How to win in a recession
During the 2001 recession, just over half the 400 companies studied improved their gross profit margins during the year, according to Diamond Management &...
Identity signaling
Conventional wisdom says "clothes make the man or woman." But a published study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University suggests...
Who killed AIG?
Look at AIG. In a wave of corporate head-hunting under Eliott Spitzer, AIG was dragged through a public flogging, its illustrious CEO, Hank Greenberg,...
Key issues
The lock-and-key systems most commonly used by apartment communities today are master-key systems, and inherent in those systems is the potential threat posed by...
Freddie and Fannie, how low can you go?
"The Congress really took a hard look at our industry's lobbying efforts to create a more balanced housing policy," Camden Property Trust CEO Ric...
Truth and consequences
"America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who -- with their hands,...
