The May June 2017 issue of Yield PRO magazine
Tag: May June 2017
Can’t fight that feeling
But the apartment industry is catching on with the help of partners like software provider Yardi, which tapped the hotel sector for cutting edge...
I’m afraid to blink.
Never before has the world been safer, freer, wealthier, or healthier. In 2014, 54 percent of the nation’s counties had zero murders and more than...
Housing pro
Nominated for the position by President Donald Trump on April 28, Patenaude has the experience and knowledge to complement retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who...
The trillion dollar consolidation
The returns that large-scale single-family rentals (SFR) are producing are now measuring up to institutional standards and the management is under control. It wasn’t...
Student housing gets an A
Commercial real estate investors are increasingly keeping their wallets in their pockets, waiting to see where interest rates will go, for prices to come...
The high cost of incivility
The nasty looks and belittling comments reached a point at law firm Bryan Cave, in Irvine, Calif., that the partners held a civility workshop. Managing...
Pieces of history
The boot has been booted, the wheelbarrow has been wheeled out, and the thimble got the thumbs down in the latest version of the...
The madness of ignoring what people do
These days, I try to limit my outrage to onerous parking tickets, ($120! For blocking my own driveway?!) and programs I DVR that run...
Why millennials are (partly) to blame for the housing shortage
The rush of young people to U.S. cities over the past few years is partly to blame for America’s worsening housing shortage. In some of...
Beyond the apartment
American Homes 4 Rent, a five-year-old real estate investment trust and the biggest of the publicly traded landlords by number of homes, is buying...
Uptown living, downtown budget
“I would say it’s the most social building I’ve ever seen,” said Daniel Ellch, a tenant. That’s by design: The developer, Property Markets Group...
Generation Z
Born from 1995 to 2012, the first members of Generation Z—who succeed the millennials—are graduating from college. Stillman, who has been studying the generations for...
In the lap of luxury
Atlanta-based Catalyst Development Partners recently opened Helios Apartments, a 282-unit community, also in Atlanta. “Helios Apartments evolved out of a desire to provide in-town residents...
How to push employees without stressing them out
First, let me explain why I was skeptical. I do sometimes feel enormous pressure, generally about our firm’s investment performance. Do I really feel...
Regulation nation
A lawyer for Duarte Nursery said the case is important because it could set a precedent requiring other farmers to obtain costly, time-consuming permits...
