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Nationally, renter quality improving
This could be good news for apartment owners and operators, but many of these renters come with fiscal risk, or do they? The latest...
1M lease online
Representing a historic milestone for the multifamily industry, this ever-expanding volume suggests that providing online availability has become a significant component of rental operation. The...
The high price of social networking
The presenter introduces this new concept, while providing ways for marketing attendees to create a social network at their communities. Leasing Agent Suzie goes...
A housing bill for the birds
No doubt. Mortgage companies became lax in their lending standards in past years. There is, however, an incredible upside few talk about, though it...
Is that a lease on the line?
In a sense, I approach our marketing and advertising strategy the same way. I am constantly watching how market conditions are affecting my "catch"...
Northern star rising
Between September 2006 and May 2007, the fifth largest multifamily REIT in the country purchased nine tired apartment communities that housed 2,184 units in...
River rising
The addition of 63,985 units last year propelled the nation's largest apartment management services company to the number three spot in the National Multi...
X factor
The generation gap has always existed, although western culture predominantly used this phrase that references behavioral differences between generations during the 1960s. It was...
Picking up the pieces
They've been called opportunity funds, distressed funds and, in less polite terms, vulture funds, but no matter what you call them, today there are...
Housing Bill deemed most significant in a generation
Significantly, the measure represents a balanced approach to housing policy by trimming home-ownership incentives, and balancing single- family incentives with expanded rental housing incentives. Here...
The envelope please.
The dynamic, edgy look with lots of steel and glass, concrete and brick, variations of color and texture and dramatic features like bays of...
You da man, Sam
Multifamily, after all, is the complete package: We have the bling (Pillars). We have the style (Luxury). And we're not only good looking, we're smart...
Pick one, then keep it to yourself.
At her previous job, Samantha Smith, was the lone conservative in a 10-person office--something her more liberal co-workers were happy to tease her about...
Regional apartment players hunt deals
Hellman is president of Cincinnati-based Berkshire Realty Group LLC, an owner and operator of rental-apartment buildings. With 5,500 units in Ohio and Kentucky and...
Apartment market going strong
"The apartment industry has historically been dominated by smaller local and regional firms, particularly in the area of property management," noted Doug Bibby, National...
