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Property Management

 

 
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Multifamily Executive’s editorial team—Rachel Azoff, Les Shaver, Chris Wood, and Shabnam Mogharabi—are in the multifamily trenches day in and day out. These top-notch journalists monitor the multifamily housing industry and report their observations. Here, they come together to share the news stories, events, and trends that catch their eyes—and might just interest you.

 

In the Multifamily Trenches

  • EQR Shows Optimism

    As earnings calls go, this was marathon. On it's hour-and-a-half conference Chicago-based Equity Residential sounded an optimistic, aggressive tone for the year. After watching rents fall, the company is seeing stabilibility and even a slightly uptick in some areas. It expects Boston, Washington D.C., and South Florida, of all places, to lead the charge. Still for the year, it expects rents to fall 2.9 percent, though an increase in occupancy should help offset that.
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Jack Kern is the managing director of the Washington, D.C.-based Kern Investment Research. The consulting firm specializes in providing multi-family investment banking and research services that include financing, strategic markets selection, opportunity analysis, and macro- and micro-level market and submarket forecasts.

 

The Accidental Economist

  • The Recession is Ending, So Can Job Growth Be Far Behind?

    It used to be that certain states were considered by economists as bellweather indicators of trends to come. Since the recession has been so wide spread across the nation, the usual platitudes, "so goes California or so goes Atlanta, so goes the country" don't have the same meaning.
 


 

 

Technology

  • Bank of America Enters Electronic Rent Payment Arena

    Oakland, Calif.-based PropertyBridge, a MoneyGram International company and provider of electronic rent payment services to the multifamily housing industry, has reached an exclusive agreement with Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America Merrill Lynch to provide electronic rent payment functionality to Bank of America’s multifamily clients.

     
  • RealPage to Acquire Domin-8 in Preparation for IPO

    Multiple sources have confirmed to Multifamily Executive that Carrollton, Texas-based multifamily software and technolgy services provider RealPage has agreed in principle on the acquisition of Cincinnatti-based property management software firm Domin-8. If consumated, the deal would become the latest in a string of multifamily technology sector buys by RealPage that sources say are part of a larger balance sheet, strategic, and operational corporate positioning as the company prepares for an initial public offering.

     
  • Five Tips for Affordable Owners on How to Choose Property Management Software

    Affordable housing owners looking to purchase property management software face many different and difficult choices. Here are five tips that every affordable housing manager should keep in mind when assessing the market.

     
 

 
 

2010 IBS Coverage

 

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