Tag: September October 2014
Legacy builder
Rick Graf believes in good, old fashioned hard work. “If you work hard, you will get ahead and, if you are smart and stay...
The soul of success
From the tales of his tirades, it sounds like he missed his yoga class. Go figure. Even the laid-back, button-down Californians are stressed these...
The lost decade
Twenty-five years later, Americans are older, more diverse and more educated. We are less likely to be married and more likely to live alone....
Crowd-funding real estate
Oculus raised money on Kickstarter in September 2012 and was purchased this year by Facebook for $2 billion. The prize for the 9,522 Kickstarter...
The sinister side of big data
But there is also a growing awareness that important concerns have to be addressed if these hopes are to be realized. If the four...
Sares Regis expands portfolio
The new acquisitions total 300 apartments in Portland and North County San Diego, and for a portfolio of eight properties totaling 1,220 apartments out...
The marshmallow test for grownups
Children at Stanford’s Bing Nursery School, aged four to six, were placed in a room furnished only with a table and chair. A single...
The next bubble?
Apartment sales volumes are back to peak levels. Prices have jumped to all-time highs. Cap rates have dropped to long-time lows. And with demand...
Unleashing the power
The multifamily housing industry is one of, if not, the most fragmented industry in the United States. Why? Follow the money. There remains no national...
Riding out the storm in D.C.
“I love D.C.,” said Camden Property Trust CEO Ric Campo during the apartment REIT’s second quarter earnings conference call at the beginning of August. “That’s...
But everyone else did
The research paper, “The Role of Contagion in the Last American Housing Cycle,” written by Wharton real estate professors Joseph Gyourko and Fernando Ferreira,...
The great divide
How should you relate to employees of different age groups? How do you motivate someone much older or much younger than you? And finally:...
Shopping apartments
The view off the balcony of Deb McKernan’s new apartment is a Cheesecake Factory and a big parking lot—and she’s perfectly fine with that. “I...
A condo state of mind
Completed over a decade ago, the properties were build under a city tax abatement program including rent regulations. When the abatements expire in June...
Crunch time
The state laws regulating rent and co-op conversions expire in June 2015. Republicans in the Senate have long resisted efforts by Democrats and tenant...
