Tag: Article
Actions Speak Louder than Words
According to the Department of Labor's 2004 statistics, women comprise approximately 46 percent of the workforce in the Unites States. Additionally, female employees are...
Habitat experiments with building multifamily homes
Problem: South Hampton Roads Habitat for Humanity in Norfolk, Va. says the region is running out of affordable land. Solution: The charity affiliate, which has...
The best is yet to be…
The survey revealed a number of misconceptions that exist in the industry about senior residents. The results are valuable because they will identify for...
What’s on his Mind?
Apartment Professional catches up with Donald Trump: AP: Why real estate? TRUMP: My father was a developer and I learned to love the business by being...
The business of birth order
Why did Charles Darwin pursue the radical idea of evolution when other scientists of the 1870s such as Louis Agassiz rejected it? Could it...
A reasonable proposal
Much has been made of the recent proposal by the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform to modify the current, virtually unlimited mortgage...
Oil and Trouble
The wicked spikes of global oil prices affect the MF industry in a number of direct and indirect ways. Here's a look at some...
Confronting Katrina’s Toll
Amid costly clean-up efforts in the waterlogged Gulf Coast region, many multifamily owners have shifted thoughts to building rehab or high-priced new construction. Others...
RentNet’s Red Baron
Those wishing to paint the town red, put on the red light, or simply get the red out, should probably check with Maria Pietroforte. "When...
Student Housing Grows Up
The growing university housing market proves lucrative for savvy developers who keep up with the evolving needs of students. AP looks at three management...
Every Card has Two Sides
Credit card companies tout the convenience and cost savings of recurring electronic rent payments for property managers. Here's why they should charge ahead... but...
The John Hopkins University Housing Scene: Dressing up Charles Village
What do Johns Hopkins' serious-minded students want in the way of off-campus housing? JHU off-campus coordinator Mireille Miller will tell you there's almost no...
The NMHC Student Housing Conference: Buiding for the Echo Boom
Each year, the D.C.-based Student Housing Conference helps senior execs avoid mistakes -- and fire up profits -- in the sizzling student housing niche. At...
Industry Ad Vantages
In what has become a media market increasingly cluttered with fishing poles, today's multifamily advertising agencies have to be more creative than ever to...
How the Other 1 Percent of 1Percent Lives
As luxury multifamily housing development goes, call 80 South Street the high, high end. Last year, the design world buzzed with the conceptual renderings of...
