The November December 2011 issue of Yield PRO magazine
Tag: November December 2011
Is multfamily’s future in TOD?
The citizens of Seattle have just such an opportunity by encouraging development of dynamic pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods in the areas surrounding Sound Transit's light-rail stations....
Know when house rules violate lease
Q: As a property manager, I am under contract with an owner to advertise and show his single-family rental. I recently chose new tenants...
Lehman seeks financing for Archstone counterbid
Lehman, which owns 47 percent of Archstone, is in discussions with investors including Blackstone Group LP and Brookfield Asset Management Inc. to arrange financing,...
Senior housing is booming, baby
In the third quarter of 2011 alone, 39 senior housing deals worth $5.5 billion were completed, primarily by real estate investment trusts that specialize...
Tenants trying again to buy Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village
The tenant association hopes to convert the adjacent complexes, with 11,232 apartments, into a condominium or cooperative under a plan in which residents could...
The great shrinking state
Unable to afford Orange County's skyhigh rents, she opted for Portland, Ore. "A big motivator was that I lived with roommate after roommate after...
The latest cottage business: app fees
At a "nice" $3,500-per-month loft in the Mission, "80 people showed up for the open house," said Ms. Lamas, 23, who recently began working...
The ultimate question: Would your customers recommend you?
Peter Fader: Can you tell us what NPS stands for? Those three letters are on everyone's mind these days, and a lot of businesses...
When nothing works
As Bertie examined my elbow, I reminded him of everything I had done to try to fix my problem. When it began to hurt,...
Through the eyes of the imagineers
Kimberly Scott, founder of Capture the Market, a real estate video production studio in Dallas, Texas, is hesitant to agree with such a trivialization....
Your use of pronouns reveals your personality
The research: In the 1990s, James Pennebaker helped develop a computer program that counted and categorized words in texts, differentiating content words, which convey...
Using social networks to improve operations
Then telephone surveys began to supplement mystery shopping. Today, digital technologies are supplanting both, with online customer surveys providing an exponentially greater number of...
Federal Housing Authority poised to re-sink the economy
Whatever measure of truth there may have been in that cliche, the reality is that by refusing to accept the real estate correction as...
