The January February 2013 issue of Yield PRO magazine
Tag: January February 2013
Good-bye Archstone, hello mega-REITs
Underperformance of apartment REIT shares was a major impetus behind the defunct investment bank's decision to sell Archstone in a private sale to competitors...
Influencers and high tide
Family and friends? Business associates? The Kardashians? Who is your voice of reason? After viewing the video and examining the DNA according to CSI protocol, it...
The future of energy management in commercial buildings
2012 was a momentous year for commercial energy efficiency : despite a slow-growth economy, the number of buildings registering for U.S. Green Building Council's...
Don’t anesthetize your colleagues with bad writing
The most engaging communicators avoid trite expressions, whether in conversation or in writing. They use strong, simple words. Think of Winston Churchill's famous phrase...
Bullish to balanced
Demand for apartments still outpaces supply, vacancies are at their lowest point in years, rents continue to rise faster than inflation and apartments remain...
Morgan on the move
"This is a unique time to invest in the multifamily sector. The wind is at our back. We are above 95 percent occupied across...
Putting your best pitch forward in a society of salespeople
So when Pink, bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind, ran across statistics showing that one in nine Americans worked in sales...
Obama picks former prosecutor to head SEC
Mary Jo White, former U.S. attorney in Manhattan, has an extensive record of prosecuting white-collar crime, won convictions in the 1993 World Trade Center...
Stop listening to your residents
But regardless of how you go about asking the question, you need to recognize that there is a fundamental problem with asking people what...
Multihousing has recovered 70 percent with outlook strong: NAHB
The market for multifamily housing has recovered "substantially" since 2010 and is around 70 percent of the way back to a sustainable level, NAHB...
Being invisible
But though it might seem intuitive that people would be more than willing to give what they'd greatly appreciate getting themselves, this typically isn't...
The Michaels Organization changes lives in Baltimore
The newly -constructed rental community spans 76 units of affordable housing. Built by Bozzuto Construction Company, the new townhouse community will house low- and...
The automation pay-off
Technology means tasks are completed faster, redundant processes are reduced to a click, and we're empowered to do things we never imagined. Robots fly,...
Gallup on the ropes
But lately, Gallup's name has been tarnished by a whistle-blower lawsuit and a suspension from winning federal contracts. Gallup's roots stretch back to 1922, when...
It’s a mod, mod world
Two years ago, Bruce Ratner sought to ease a shrinking budget and appease swarms of critics who lambasted the original rendering for a residential...
