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Multifamily trends prediction for 2022
Apartments are where home sweet home is for more and more Americans: in the last decade, the multifamily market has experienced hypergrowth. Even during...
Can supply chain disruptions get any worse? Buckle in.
In my recent article on the Biden administration’s many-pronged assault on economic freedom, I pointed out that comparisons of President Biden with former president...
More than a number
They say age is just a number, and that it’s really about how you feel. Okay, that may be true—but then again, there is...
RE sets records
The housing industry is looking back on how the coronavirus pandemic reshaped it, and at least 10 records were added to the books, including...
Multifamily private activity bond issuance reaches record
Before the onset of the pandemic, the percentage of tax-exempt private activity bonds (PABs) used for multifamily housing had been largely trending upward. The...
Will employers fall in line?
It’s no secret that President Joe Biden’s various vaccination mandates (except for the one covering the military) have been having a tough slog in...
The urgency of protecting the electric grid from cyberattacks
Multifamily owners and operators are the single largest dispenser of utilities in the nation. An electric grid failure would be catastrophic for operations and...
The great migration
The future of the apartment industry looks bright. Demand for rental homes is strong, rent growth has returned to pre-pandemic levels and renters who...
The case for optimism
Clarity of purpose guides the path forward in every time and every place. Whether in life, business or country, we will be neither the...
A cautionary housing tale
Can society be designed? Can an expert engineer alleviate people’s pains and struggles with a good-enough central plan and blueprint? Minoru Yamasaki thought so. Yamasaki was...
Operations enter time-space continuum
Fast, reliable, wireless internet service is not only a nice amenity for residents, it can also cure a long list of headaches for apartment...
It’s back.
In late August, the Supreme Court struck down the Centers for Disease Control’s so-called “eviction moratorium.” The justices ruled that the federal agency did...
How to make housing affordable
An old joke goes as follows: Patient to doc: “Doc, it hurts when I do this.” Doctor to patient: “Quit doing that.” That joke applies to the...
What happened in 1971?
Something huge happened in 1971. And both Edward Snowden and Jack Dorsey are asking the same question. In mid-August, Twitter Founder and CEO Jack Dorsey...
What if they opened the office and nobody came?
For months, corporate hegemons, real estate brokers and their media acolytes have been insisted that a return to “normalcy,” that is, to the office,...
