Trigild, a San Diego-based real estate management and loan recovery firm, recently expanded their multifamily portfolio with the addition of seven multifamily communities across the United States.

After a three-year rut in employment growth, St. Louis saw the addition of 9,000 local jobs in 2011–with 14,000 more expected in 2012.

It’s been a tough few years recently for condo projects in Chicago, so tough that most of them either haven’t gotten out of the ground or have been reinvented in the more glamorous end of multifamily, as rental apartments.

Village Green’s newest property, Randolph Tower City, is 35 percent leased already, and the first residents don’t even move in until later in the month.

The Twin Cities is continuing to witness exceptionally low unemployment and vacancy as compared to the rest of the country.

Vacancy is set to decline in Detroit Rock City as the United Auto Workers recently struck a deal with the Big Three that will create 14,000 new jobs through 2014.

The right value-add assets in key locations are high on the radar of attracting buyers, as evidenced by investors’ response to downtown Chicago’s River North Park, a 399-unit mixed-use apartment property.

Families living in affordable housing know their housing costs cannot exceed 30 percent of their incomes. But that affordability can be nullified if the housing is not located in areas with comparatively affordable transportation costs.

The first market rent luxury apartment building to come to downtown Ann Arbor in the past quarter century will be built by Village Green.

Franklin School Apartments, a Great Falls, Mont. affordable multifamily property whose history dates to the early years of the 20th century, has benefited from energy-efficient upgrades, thanks to a financing solution recommended by Columbus, Ohio-based Lancaster Pollard Mortgage Co.