Education and health care are two sectors of the U.S. economy have not only stayed...
Prices in the country's core markets are flattening as more capital chases yield off...
Residents want smoke-free living, but will the multifamily industry deliver?
A slew of five-year CMBS loans will come due this year, but how will they refinance?
Apartment Occupancies Set to Hit Historical Highs
The biggest takeaway we can offer up after listening at the Apartment Finance Today "Meet The Money" Conference about the tentative and hyper-selective way capital is working into the arterial network of the multifamily gross domestic product is this: If you don't need money, you can probably get...
Lennar Homes, a single-family, top five–ranked home builder and real estate investor, has begun to bring its recently crafted multifamily play from blueprint to reality. Lennar plans to unwind its single-family, for-sale operations in the beleaguered Chicago market, and, at the same time, it's...
The panelists at yesterday’s NMHC Apartment Strategies/Finance Conference overwhelmingly remained steadfast in their belief in that the apartment industry is due for a nice run over the next few years. But they said it may be difficult to keep pushing rent increases as a number of markets push past...
It shouldn’t really be a surprise given that apartment sales have accelerated over the past year, but commercial and multifamily originations were 36 percent higher than they were during the same period last year, according to a report from the Washington, D.C.-based Mortgage Bankers Association.
Potential lenders are still not sufficiently convinced that energy-saving retrofits will result in meaningful savings for multifamily owners in the long run. And they worry that they won’t see their money back, so they are waiting to see positive data that shows otherwise.
Are small units really the future, or just good headlines?
Economic pressures have apartment developers reconsidering appropriate product types and locations.
Manny Gonzalez, a principal at Irvine, Calif.–based architectural firm KTGY, remembers when 60 percent of the new units he designed were two-bedrooms or larger. Now, he’s designing communities consisting of 60 percent one-bedrooms or smaller, and that has him worried. He is not alone.
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