The January February 2010 issue of Yield PRO magazine
Tag: January February 2010
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...
MH Feeding frenzy
"With their stocks battered over the past several years, REITs could sell a building for a lot less on a yield basis then what...
Deal-maker
The company has been taking advantage of weakness in the apartment market, buying recently constructed Class A apartment and condo product with more than...
Close to home
At the height of the market a few years ago, reports of a firm purchasing two properties in a year's time would have registered...
Growing the business
"Those were the areas of difficulty for Wallick," said Feusse, who began working as a consultant for the 44-year-old affordable multihousing company in May...
The Boston Market
That sale heralded a new vibrancy in the apartment transaction world in Massachusetts that saw only seven apartment communities worth more than $10 million...
Rocky Mountain High (and low)
The Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2010 by PricewaterhouseCoopers lists Colorado's capital as one of the top 10 national cities to watch—the third year...
Multihousing ka-boom
Buzz on the deal abounds. Richard LeFrak, whose family built LeFrak City, a 5,000-unit affordable housing complex in Queens, has already expressed interest in...
Back in the sweet spot
At least part of the explanation for the rise in real estate's standing in the 2010 survey is pretty obvious, thinks Mission Capital Advisors'...
Make them stop
The most irritating or disruptive things about a job may have nothing to do with too much work or boring assignments. Sometimes what gets...
The Zen of work
The past year has brought layoffs, furloughs, pay freezes, increased health care costs and heavier workloads. And it's starting to eat at you. You can't...
Renting: the new American dream
How does government support for home-ownership compare with government support for renting? Cino: Federal home-ownership subsidies outnumber rental support 4 to 1 or about $230...
Multitaskers pay mental price
Attention, multitaskers (if you can pay attention, that is): Your brain may be in trouble. People who are regularly bombarded with several streams of electronic...
Social networking etiquette and the office
Was it wise to accept a colleague or higher-up as a "friend" to begin with? And—perhaps more importantly—in this day and age, when people...
