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The future of apartments
So what does the medium- and long-term apartment market look like? What should renters, investors and economists know about the market in 2025, 2035...
Assets vs. access: digital reality for commercial real estate
“The way we lived, the way we consumed, the whole ownership economy emerged out of driving our cars. We built a big house in...
What happens when affordable housing doesn’t pencil
But the amount of affordable housing that developers can build is beginning to shrink as the cost of development grows.
“The number of units of...
The more you energize your coworkers, the better everyone performs
We “catch” energy through our interactions with people—something called “relational energy”—and it affects our performance at work. This is what my colleagues Bradley Owens,...
15 Years in the pipeline
Cranes are on the horizon in San Francisco in a most unlikely place, South of Market’s (SoMa) Harrison Street. The area with a most...
Energy Bill inches closer to finish line
Of particular interest to the multifamily industry have been provisions related to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) role in the development of building energy...
The long view on your connections
Networking is linked to many measures of professional success—including getting promoted, having influence, earning more money, and feeling more satisfied in your career. “Research...
New York’s self-inflicted housing crunch
But there’s also the anxiety from New York’s crazy-quilt pattern of land use regulation, which a New York Times editorial recently labeled “High-Rise Anxiety.”...
Multifamily’s great reno invasion
Among those speakers was Chip Gaines, who recounted his experience doing facelifts on single-family homes in Waco, Texas, during his presentation at the conference....
Choose courage
The growth that once propelled America and generated expansion, upward mobility and a pervasive prosperity is now the weakest in at least seven decades.
So...
Teeing up qualified prospects
The marketplace also is hesitantly trying out new customer relationship management (CRM) technologies for life-cycle consumer management in the hopes they will increase profitability...
Tale of a technology innovator
In the multifamily arena, where change is slow to manifest and acceptance of new technology even slower, there are very few true disruptors.
Much of...
Market disrupter
Whether you subscribe to GenFlux (those who seek constant disruption) or hold to the adage that history repeats itself ad infinitum (the future is...
Take it outside
The 2015 City Park Facts report generated by The Trust for Public Land shows that off-leash parks are the fastest growing segment of urban...
Gunfight at the Airbnb coral
That means Airbnb and others must stick to advertising San Francisco hosts who have registered with the city and haven’t exceeded the number of...
