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The bounce
“Apartment demand surged in second quarter,” says Greg Willett, chief economist for MPF Research, a division of Real Page Inc. “Strong demand pushed occupancy...
Adopting a best-for-me strategy
Sports are often used as a metaphor for life, so consider a metaphor of enterprise software, and track and field.
Enterprise software users and vendors...
Emotional intelligence, our responsibility to Gen Y and Z
Although the term first appeared in a 1964 paper by Michael Beldoch, it gained popularity in the 1995 book by that title, written by...
Winning the local search: mobile and social—the R2P2 principle
It’s not easy to find the marketing technology that can help a local business signal that it’s a local business.
Business owners are overwhelmed by...
When will affordable housing advocates push for more supply and fewer rules?
The lack of market rate supply contributes to high prices that puts market rate housing out of reach, and as long as that problem...
Getting inside multifamily’s utility management operation
“In many states we’re seeing an increase in the trend to mandate submetering for any residential and commercial new building construction. Around eight states...
The laws of human nature
Andy, a ‘Bama boy, lost his mother to cancer and his father in a car wreck shortly thereafter at the age of 19. He...
Charging into the future
The electric vehicle charger, product of the transportation revolution, is an amenity residents are requesting in ever-greater numbers.
Three companies that provide those chargers to...
Build that community
Until recently, this was the gospel truth for the national real estate space, but a few leasing professionals are breaking from the pack and...
Bracing for a storm
The vestige I want to specifically address is risk assessment and underwriting of lease agreements in the multifamily industry, or more simply, the process...
The silent crisis
Terwilliger moderated a panel of distinguished experts discussing how housing needs to become a higher national policy priority, why national policy must change to...
Background check policies for apartment applicants may be illegal
“A policy or practice that denies housing to anyone with a prior arrest or any kind of criminal conviction cannot be justified,” according to...
Age of Aquarius, 2.0: smart drugs in the workplace
This scenario may not be hypothetical for long. The unauthorized use of prescription drugs such as the ADHD medications Adderall and Ritalin and the...
Affordable housing crunch moves inland to modest-sized U.S. cities
While soaring real estate prices and ludicrous rents have ceased being news in places called Pacific Heights or Park Slope, the dual tsunamis of...
Rebuilding housing on a strong foundation
The conservatorship used taxpayer money to shore up these part-public, part-private entities, which accounted for roughly two-thirds of both single-family and multifamily mortgage markets....
