The biggest takeaway we can offer up after listening at the Apartment Finance Today "Meet The Money" Conference about the tentative and...
Lennar Homes, a single-family, top five–ranked home builder and real estate investor, has begun to bring its recently crafted multifamily...
As always, April brought a flurry of data and commentary about how the apartment industry performed over the winter. And if the REITs and...
In its first quarter sales report, Real Capital Analytics (RCA) pointed out that the increasing velocity of portfolio sales helped push...
As mandated renter's insurance programs proliferate in the apartment sector, operators look to tactics from the auto and mortage industries to fill coverage voids.
New York-based specialty insurance provider Assurent has acquired SureDeposit, a provider of alternatives to resident security deposits.
Experts like Wadsworth say many multifamily firms—particularly those without risk management units—are not likely to fair as well with renewals this year as property and liability insurance costs continue to increase due to the overall weak economy.
On the heels of the 2009 hurricane season, a coalition of insurers, public officials, risk experts, builders, and conservation groups have released a blueprint of policy changes and common sense actions likely to reduce hurricane-related economic losses along U.S. coastlines by as much as half.
Atlanta-based REIT Post Properties reported some of the strongest first quarter earnings for the industry on Tuesday.
As with the other REITs that reported first quarter earnings last week, Rochester, N.Y.-based Home Properties had yet another stellar financial performance to start out 2012. The company announced that first quarter results were the best for core property NOI growth that it has seen in the past...
On its first quarter 2012 earnings call on Friday, Memphis-based MAA reported that it closed out the first quarter with the highest funds from operations (FFO) per share performance in its 18 year history.
San Francisco-based BRE Properties reported continued revenue growth in markets in Southern California, including Los Angeles and Orange County, following a warm West Coast winter.
Education and health care are two sectors of the U.S. economy have not only stayed strong throughout the recession, but are expected to grow even more over the next ten years
The economists at the Multifamily Executive Conference’s annual Economic Roundtable and State of the Industry panel are optimistic that the country won’t experience a double-dip recession.
Consumers flock to apartments as American housing psychology reacts to the recession.
Multifamily Developers See Competition Stiffen
Though buyers have returned with some significant in 2010, it's important to allow sense to reign.
After nearly two years of stagnation, multifamily REITs and private firms began to eye opportunities in the land market.
In another sign that their could be life in the long dormant land market, San Francisco-based BRE Properties announced Tuesday that it had acquired 2.4 acres of land in downtown Sunnyvale, Calif., for approximately $19 million. It plans to build 280 units on the site.
As developers begin to look at whether new construction pencils out again, architects, property managers, and general contractors are getting a lot of calls to do studies and help underwrite deals. Some of these proposals will turn into nothing, but others could eventually lead to starts. What...
Her process, which mixes chemicals and bacteria, could supplement conventional bricks whose production causes a lot of pollution.
Some multifamily firms have been able to creatively wrestle new dollars, while cutting expenses, by uncovering latent opportunities throughout the downturn.
Many apartment communities around the country are well into their peak watering season (usually March to June). But turning that spigot on is getting more and more expensive.
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