The November December 2011 issue of Yield PRO magazine
Tag: November December 2011
Shores: A love story
The love story began in 1955, when Epstein was first approached by then Los Angeles County Supervisor Burton Chase to assist in the planning...
Tidings of great joy and rich complexity
Try as we may, we can not simplify this complexity into an app, a box or other metric container, wrapped in our intentions. We...
A credit score that tracks rent payments
The new report also includes any property tax liens and whether you've fallen behind on your homeowner's association dues. It may reflect that you...
Apartment construction surges
The number of permits to build apartments jumped to a three-year high in October. In 12 months, they've surged 63 percent. Blame the housing bust,...
Apartments rock downtown
With apartments nearly full and waiting lists piling up, a sense of rental euphoria has fallen over downtown Cleveland. The downtown apartment market has tightened...
Bozzuto takes a Giant leap
Cathedral Commons is a $125 million, two-block, mixed-use development that will include 137 apartment units and eight townhomes, more than 500 parking spaces, and...
Business analytics seeing huge demand, outpacing talent
A survey out the first of December, by the EMC Corporation, is showing that nearly one-third of companies across the globe are able to...
Can we consume less?
Will rich societies start consuming less? Could wealth go green? Might parsimony become the new luxury? Heresy, surely, you would say. But it might...
CBRE Econometric Advisors forecasts 5.5 percent vacancy
The multihousing vacancy rate in 2011 isprojected to be 5.5 percent (on an annualized basis), down 60 basis points (bps) from a year ago...
Despite housing glut, REITs prosper
On a year-over-year basis, AvalonBay Communities saw FFO per share growth in Q3 of more than 19 percent, the highest growth rate in six...
Drinking through a firehose: has data mining gone too far?
"Even traditional companies have discovered they can generate totally new lines of business by collecting and using their customers' information," says Andrea Matwyshyn, professor...
Equity Residential to take stake in Archstone
The stake would be about half of the ownership held by the two banks and sets the clock ticking for the remaining owner, Lehman...
Gratitude as a business strategy
There's nothing wrong with expecting excellence, and taking steps to get it. The problem is, we tend to take excellence—and thoughtfulness, and kindness, and...
I don’t understand what anyone is saying anymore
Abstractionitis We have forgotten how to use the real names of real things. Like doorknobs. Instead, people talk about the idea of doorknobs, without actually...
I spy with my little iPhone
Until the recent uproar over the discovery of Carrier IQ's analytics software running on a variety of mobile devices, including Apple iPhones and Google...
