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Household formation to fuel multifamily in 2020
Apartment production has returned to pre-recession levels and vacancies are low, but more new apartment homes are needed, according to experts participating in a...
Rent control is illegal
New York City recently implemented its far-reaching Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019. That law enacted extensive amendments, all plaintiff protective, to...
Pillars 2020: Stepping it up
The national obsession with counting steps in the pursuit of physical fitness has spawned a plethora of pedometers in the marketplace and a trend...
The enduring strength of truth
Webster defines it as “the property of being in accord with fact or reality.” Truth is a beautiful, most reliable thing. The truth of Christmas...
Unlocking Big Data
The coupling of big data with artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) has power to disrupt the traditional way of basing...
Developing Expertise
Multifamily professionals who are interested in keeping up with the latest trends in the industry are undoubtedly familiar with NAA’s Apartmentalize and NMHC’s OPTECH...
As economists forecast for 2020, some are already thinking past the next recession
“Economists generally expect will experience a downturn... over the course of 2020 or early 2021,” says Sam Chandan, a trained economist, an associate...
Why business leaders need to understand their algorithms
One of the biggest sources of anxiety about AI is not that it will turn against us, but that we simply cannot understand how...
OK Boomer is just the first salvo of a larger generational showdown
The inscription (above) is reminiscent of another that, according to Newsweek, was unearthed in the Sumerian city of Ur (located in modern-day Iraq and...
Rental prospects rank top amenities they want in a multifamily property
The option of in-unit laundry left other amenities out to dry—cleaning up as the most in-demand apartment feature that renters seek, with 3 out...
The regulation burden
The Mercatus Center’s RegData project has recently extended its methodology for quantifying the number of regulations and other restrictions imposed by U.S. government agencies...
Who will buy 21 million homes? Not I, said gen X.
Who’s going to buy all the boomer’s homes? A recent story in the Wall Street Journal asked who would buy all the baby boomers’...
Blackstone moves out of rental-homes
Blackstone Group Inc. sold the last of its stake in Invitation Homes Inc., the company it created after the housing crisis to scoop up...
Record-breaker for multifamily sales volume
In the first nine months of 2019, multifamily sales volume has been higher than during any other comparable period in the past 10 years. Despite...
How marketers can overcome short-termism
Marketing is all about strategy—or is it? To find out, the August 2019 CMO Survey asked U.S. marketing leaders: “How much time do you...