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The newest RE sector: boat slips
Even in the boom of 2005, premier wet slips bucked appreciation trends of traditional single family homes. As the growing demand for boat slips fuels...
Making your own luck
He already had a taste for development, acquired during his first job after graduating from college in the early 1990s, when he worked with...
No place like home
But, while Pollack Partners has been charging full-steam ahead with projects since the company was formed last summer, Chair-man and CEO Marc Pollack didn't...
Coming out of the shadows
Today, they are paying attention to the shadow supply of for-sale product looming on the margins coast to coast. The return of busted condos...
Easy come. Easy go.
While Bolton is seeing little change in pricing in Phoenix today, he is seeing a change in the way deals are structured. "The fact...
Branding in motion: AvalonBay
Imagine walking into a supermarket without a pre-determined list of brand choices. You could spend countless hours deciding between ten different laundry detergents or...
Still golden
We can hardly turn on the television or stand in a supermarket line without seeing his face on the screen or the cover of...
Along for the ride
Some began converting their own properties and a few even built new for-sale product. The profits rolled in. While the condo craze may be...
Taking in private
Because they are not traded on the national stock exchanges, private REITs do not have to answer to the SEC. They are not burdened...
Side by side
Since relocating its headquarters from Carlsbad, Calif., to San Juan Capistrano early this year, TPG bought an apartment property in San Diego and is...
Think like a brand
Campbell soup, Coca-Cola, Juicy Fruit gum, Aunt Jemima and Quaker Oats were among the first products to be branded. But the multifamily world didn't...
Evolution demands re-branding
The country's fourth largest apartment REIT, known as United Dominion Realty Trust for the past 35 years, recently underwent such an image metamorphosis, shortening...
The air up there
"Owners and developers are conditioned to think of development sites as flat surfaces and development lots are instinctively viewed as the two-dimensional surfaces of...
And the winner is…
It's most uncommon for a project to gain an immediate clear majority of Pillars of the Industry judges' votes. Usually, winners are lined up...
Analyst’s perspective on the Archstone-Smith deal
I'm not surprised that the size of the Archstone-Smith deal did not hinder the transaction, because, as we saw with the Blackstone acquisition of...
