Tag: Cover story
Oasis in a dry economy
"Increased renter demand from the baby boom echo, falling home-ownership rate and historically low new supply almost offset the worst drop in employment in...
Sunny skies. Great buys.
Land is sacred in Hawaii. And, going vertical makes perfect sense on an island where real estate is in finite supply. The success of...
NAHB Multifamily’s showcase of the best and the brightest
But the lack of a bricks-and-mortar venue in no way diminishes the value of the award that is considered the Oscar of the multifamily...
EQR hunts for deals
The company that traditionally has grown through acquisition, but bought no assets at all in the first three quarters of 2009, bought two in...
Safe harbor
The mainly bi-coastal apartment REIT broke ground for two new apartment projects in Q4 2009. The 219-unit, $36 million second phase of Avalon Northborough,...
Real estate deals: catching a falling knife
That was one notable assessment by panelists at the fall conference of the Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center held at Wharton...
Who will save us?
One is H.R. 1935, introduced by Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.) that would change the tax treatment of carried interest, or what is known in...
Conservative pace wins the race
"Simple and boring is the new exciting," BMO Capital Markets analyst Rich Anderson wrote in a June report on the middle-market REIT that online...
Liberty and housing for all
The government housing specialist, whose company today operates 40,000 apartments across the country and has contracts with Uncle Sam to do complete residential makeovers...
I love this town Bon Jovi style
On Sept. 2, 2008, the lead singer and founding member of the eponymous rock band was back in Newark, shovel in hand, to turn...
New HUD secretary is a multihousing guy
Since 2004, Commissioner Donovan has headed New York's Department of Housing Preservation and Development. During the Clinton Administration he served as Under Secretary of...
Back to basics
Over the years since George Lane founded the multifamily company in Atlanta, its platform has grown to include development, investment, asset and property management,...
The big chill
Multihousing brokers are certainly feeling the pinch. During a panel discussion at the Apartments 2008 conference in Los Angeles, hosted by Real Estate Southern...
Freddie and Fannie, how low can you go?
"The Congress really took a hard look at our industry's lobbying efforts to create a more balanced housing policy," Camden Property Trust CEO Ric...
The envelope please.
The dynamic, edgy look with lots of steel and glass, concrete and brick, variations of color and texture and dramatic features like bays of...
