Security

  • Multifamily Video Surveillance in Vogue as Resident Amenity

    Video surveillance and access control and monitoring systems lose their big brother stigma with a host of resident friendly amenity and multifamily back-end applications.

  • New Security Products

    Owners and residents work together to thwart recession-related crime.

  • Experts Warn Multifamily Operators of Identity Theft Risks

    The industry may be unprepared for a break of the vast amounts of personal data collected by multifamily companies on residents and employees alike that remains unsecured in either electronic databases or as paper hard copies.

  • Experts Say Sex Offenders Might Benefit from Apartment Living

    An explosion in unregistered, transient sex offenders more apt to recidivism has experts wondering if the attempt to keep offenders out of market-rate and low-income housing is a good idea after all.

  • How-To Rid Your Property of Crime

    A step-by-step guide on how to purge your property of crime--at a price you can afford.

  • Police Departments Set Up Shop in Apartments

    At the Magnolia Trace Apartments in Florence, S.C., crime had gotten out of hand. So the building's property manager, Monica Willis-Jackson, a former police officer and part owner of the complex, took a drastic step. She furnished an unused unit and donated it to the Florence Police Department’s...

  • Crime in the Multifamily Industry is No Laughing Matter

    High-density apartments seem to be a hotbed of criminal activity, with little hope for relief save for a recovered economy.

  • Product Studio: Security and Locking Systems

    Technology helps multifamily residents take control of their safety.

  • Big Brother: Security Devices

    Residents at a Greenwich Village, N.Y., condo community say hello and goodbye to their doorman everyday as they pass through the building. But get this—they've never actually met the doorman. 

  • Thumbs Up

    What do the stars of futuristic thrillers such as “The Matrix” and residents living in a multifamily property in the year 2012 have in common? Both will likely use biometrics—retina scans, thumbprints, and other biological data—to gain access into secure areas such as apartment buildings.