Apartment residents are less likely to renew their leases, according to Kingsley Associates’ Q2 2011 mulitfamily resident survey.

Karlin Real Estate buys a 304-unit community in Orlando; Marcus & Millichap brokers the sale of a nine-unit property for $3.4 million; and Chozick completes a $4.4 million sale of an 1970s apartment.

Harbor Group Management Co. has taken over the property management business of Great Atlantic Management. Great Atlantic’s portfolio of 21 properties includes 3,880 apartment units and about 116,000 square feet of commercial space in Virginia.

How Education Realty Trust and Edwards Companies joined forces to earn $22,000 in tornado relief efforts for the University of Alabama.

I have a vision for affordable housing that one day our country will have a single affordable housing program: one program, one set of rules, one agency monitoring the program itself. A tremendous amount of work must take place before this vision would become a reality, but we are a step closer to addressing many of the issues that stand in its way.

Alliance Residential recently appointed Silas Graham as Managing Director of Development for the Southeast.

The S&P/Case-Shiller’s National Home Price Index increased by 3.6 percent in the second quarter of 2011, after having fallen 4.1 percent during the first quarter of 2011.

MAA acquires a 240-unit upscale community in Alabama; Marcus & Millichap brokers the sale of a 30-unit community in Seattle; and Red provides $6.79M Fannie Mae loan for student housing.

Los Angeles–A new student housing property at the University of Southern California opened with the distinction of being the only student housing in the country to be on track to earn LEED platinum certification.

KTGY Group is designing a green senior living community just outside of Portland, adding 132 units of affordable housing for active seniors.