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HUD and gays

HUD has unveiled a series of proposed rule changes that would prohibit lenders from using sexual orientation or gender identity as a way of...
Mill District

Green machine

He would rather operate his apartment business in the Midwest markets, where there is a controlled amount of supply and flat to small population...
8th and Corinth master plan

Design solutions advance development when there is no money

Development, design, construction, housing are all in a period of deep stagnation. The housing bubble and subsequent crash has precipitated the most difficult debacle...
Adams and Central

In it to win it

Honoring the historic nature of their surroundings while giving them facelifts, from mixed-use to student housing, the vast majority of those recognized for excellence...

Thank you. It is our great pleasure to be part of an industry that...

I was fortunate enough to be raised on "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." It was a great primer for the meaning of the holidays...

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...

America, the complicated.

In previous decades, the Great Depression inalterably shaped its own generation. It haunted my grandparents, and determined how they would work and save the...

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...

Quick. Someone get us a new business model.

In Jeff Thull's classic business book, Mastering the Complex Sale, he stresses the importance of a salesperson first listening, then unraveling a customer's problem...
Avalon Northborough

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,...

Waiting to exhale

Yet, Congress has been consumed over the past year with those things at the bottom of Americans' priority list: reducing health care costs (57...

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...

The life of a bug

In the old-school novella, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915), the main character, Gregor, does just that. It's not so much that he bizarrely transforms...

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