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How small is too small?
It’s micro-living in the nation’s biggest city, and New Yorkers could be seeing more of it. Planning officials are proposing to end a limit...
Fix the problem. Just wing it.
Almost all the offenders who come to the attention of Human Resources are repeat offenders. And boring meetings tend to be boring in the...
Getting beyond yourself
Once you can visualize that person vividly and even viscerally, imagine the following scenario: You’re sitting at your desk working away when a message...
Thousands of downtown Detroit apartments are on the way
The new construction represents the latest wave in what promises to be a flood of new residential projects to downtown. Multiple other projects are...
The big take
That is until they learned that zoning changed during their ownership, recategorizing their parcel as wetland, and making it of no market value. Still,...
There’s no business like multifamily business
According to JLL’s preliminary research, the total volume of apartment sales in 2015 not only exceeded last year’s record-breaking number—it crushed it.
Investors poured nearly...
Raising minimum wage hurts workforce
The Senate Budget Committee’s blog says, “Top economists are backing Sen. Bernie Sanders on establishing a $15 an hour minimum wage.” It lists the...
Apartment IQ
The emerging mechanization promises benefits to property owners and managers of apartment communities, including energy cost savings, possible incentives from insurance companies and housing...
Making hay whilst there’s daylight
One might gather that there’s a pivot back to private capital as 79,000 apartment units have left the hands of publicly traded REITs for...
The youthification of America
High-density urban redevelopment is also associated with a younger population. This process of ‘youthification’ is driven by young people’s desire for smaller households and...
HUD rallies smoking ban in public housing
In its proposed rule, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) would require more than 3,100 public housing agencies to go smoke-free within...
Paradise lost
San Francisco has topped the list of every national rental report since Zumper began publishing them in August 2014, and was named the most...
Imagine there’s no marketing. “It’s easy if you try.”
he redistribution of power from brands to individuals is the enduring legacy of social media. The recent rise of ad blocking represents a tectonic...
The powerful effect of noticing good things at work
If someone were to tell you to focus only on the positive experiences in your day, you might be annoyed. People tend to associate...
Dialing in the ILS pipeline
Because multifamily marketing directors have limited budgets, they hope the resultant data and their call-tracking systems, which allow them to listen to calls and...
