Monday, January 20, 2025

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The lost decade

Twenty-five years later, Americans are older, more diverse and more educated. We are less likely to be married and more likely to live alone....

Crowd-funding real estate

Oculus raised money on Kickstarter in September 2012 and was purchased this year by Facebook for $2 billion. The prize for the 9,522 Kickstarter...

The sinister side of big data

But there is also a growing awareness that important concerns have to be addressed if these hopes are to be realized. If the four...

Sares Regis expands portfolio

The new acquisitions total 300 apartments in Portland and North County San Diego, and for a portfolio of eight properties totaling 1,220 apartments out...

The marshmallow test for grownups

Children at Stanford’s Bing Nursery School, aged four to six, were placed in a room furnished only with a table and chair. A single...

The next bubble?

Apartment sales volumes are back to peak levels. Prices have jumped to all-time highs. Cap rates have dropped to long-time lows. And with demand...

Game changer

With Greystar Real Estate Partners' acquisition of Riverstone Residential in June, the nation's two largest privately owned apartment management companies are now one mega-firm...

The tick tock of economics

My grandmother had a penny jar, while my father insisted we eliminate the one dollar bills and round up when playing Monopoly. The philosophical...

$20 billion skyline

Employers, and by extension, cities seeking growth and tax dollars, are competing more fiercely than ever to become centers of innovation and attract top...

Room with a view

Katie Graham moved into a new apartment in Nashville, Tennessee, for its gym, rooftop deck with heated pool, and the bars and restaurants in...

Powering down

The decline is due in large part to a significant decrease in electricity used by televisions and computers, according to a new report, which...

Emotional boundaries

Filter 1: Protect yourself from others. I once worked with a manager who gave blunt feedback in perpetuity: "You're not a grateful person!" and...

Customer experience quantified

Rationales for focusing on customer experience tend to be driven by a gut belief that it's just "the right thing to do." The problem...

Staying the night or the year?

"Great cities of the country are usually led by people living and coming downtown on a 24-hour basis, so we at HRI are glad...

Start spreading the news

De Blasio unveiled his administration’s ambitious plan to build and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing, one that he says will house half a...

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