The January February 2014 issue of Yield PRO magazine
Tag: January February 2014
The rise and sell of BRE
And, if stock prices are an indication of which REITs investors wager are ripe for M&A, Home Properties and Post Properties both are on...
Time is on our side
As a younger self, I watched mere mortals struggle against the will of the "Old Man" with a child's curiosity. Here I learned a...
Rentals grow more scarce, driving rents up
The rental vacancy rate, or the share of units that are empty and available for rent, fell 0.5 percentage point in 2013 to 8.2...
Retirees are not the labor exodus problem
These numbers are based on the annual figures published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and speak to a pronounced drop in labor force...
Slippery slope of big data
You slice, dice, parse and process every screen-stroke, clickstream, like, tweet and touch point that matters to your enterprise. You now know exactly who...
Time to move
But the future of the government sponsored enterprises, or GSEs as they are more commonly called, is unlikely to be determined in 2014. Given the...
Detroit puts hopes in corporate subsidies
Led by Dan Gilbert, owner of Quicken Loans Inc., they are trying to rebuild everything--retail, housing, start-ups, transit and even street life--in the seven-square-mile...
Not picture perfect
It turns out that an online image he liked, downloaded and integrated into his new marketing campaign was a copyrighted, fully-staged photo by one...
Rentals rising
Every two years Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies publishes an analysis of current rental housing trends. The most recent report was released last...
The whole truth
Technology is exciting. It has the power to unite. It has the power to transform. With the right technology, companies are more productive, more...
Lessons on value-add
According to a December article in the Wall Street Journal, a flood of new student housing development from large REITs and private equity firms...
Catching the silver tsunami
"The sheer number of baby boomers will fuel a demand for new housing in every age-qualified sector, from single-family to assisted living," said Manny...
Convention in the Mile-High City
"There were a number of discussions among executives and suppliers around whether legal substances should be available at non-sanctioned events," he said. Certainly this was...
Colorado primer: for the curious
Who can smoke marijuana? Anyone over 21 can legally use cannabis in Colorado. For those under 21, it is illegal, although minors can gain the...
Letter from Land and Buildings to BRE
In the letter, Land and Buildings expresses its disappointment that BRE's senior management failed to seriously consider its $60 per share offer. It addresses...
