Jessica Fiur is the editor-in-chief at Multi-Housing News and Commercial Property Executive and writes the award-winning blog What Renters Want.
Jessica has been with the company since 2011 and previously was with Weekly Reader and IQPC. Contact Jessica at jessica.fiur@cpe-mhn.com, on Twitter @jfiur or on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicafiur/.
‘What Renters Want’ with Jessica Fiur: How to Keep Up with Changing Tastes in Amenities
Amenity fads are constantly changing. How can you keep up with what’s popular?
Holland Partners Group Develops $53M Mixed-Use L.A. Community
Holland Partners Group announced that its $53 million mixed-use community at 1111 Wilshire Blvd. in Downtown Los Angeles is open for leasing.
‘What Renters Want’ with Jessica Fiur: How to Keep Up with Changing Tastes in Amenities (Don’t Be Like ‘The Lone Ranger’)
Did you see The Lone Ranger last weekend? Of course not, no one did. Why? Many movie goers aren’t flocking to see a reboot of a TV western from the ’50s. And superhero movies are currently the movie genre du jour (see: Iron Man 3, Man of Steel, etc.). Plus Johnny Depp already did the somehow-sexy-while-wearing-too-much-makeup thing years ago in Pirates of the Caribbean. It goes to show, you can throw tons of money at something that was popular years ago, but that doesn’t guarantee success. Tastes change. Same goes with amenities. The New York Times recently ran an article about how some amenities…
Lower East Side Property on the Block
The mixed-use 174 Delancey St. property in Manhattan has been put on the market. It’s a two-building property including 22 apartments, two retail spaces, a courtyard and about 5,000 square feet of air rights.
Western National and Nor’wood to Develop Colorado Springs Community
In their fourth joint venture in Colorado Springs, Colo., Western National Group and Nor’wood Development Group are developing a multifamily community in the InterQuest Marketplace development.
Trammell Crow Company Selected as Development Company for Colo. TOD
Trammell Crow Company recently announced it has been selected as the preferred development company by the Executive Oversight Committee to begin negotiations on a transit-oriented community in the Arvada Olde Town site in Arvada, Colo.
MHN TV: Micro Unit Trends: The Emerging Tenant
Kauri Investments Ltd. chairman James Potter and AREA Real Estate LLC principal David Adelman sat down at the ULI Spring Meeting to discuss the type of demand they’re seeing for micro unit apartments.
Costa Hollywood Breaks Ground Fla. Luxury Condos
Liberty Grand LLC has broken ground on the Costa Hollywood Condo Resort in Hollywood Beach, Fla. The community is already 50 percent sold.
Mortgage Applications Decrease as Rates Reach Two-year High in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
Mortgage applications decreased 11.7 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending June 28, 2013.
Yardi Acquires Pierce-Eislen
Yardi® announced today that it has acquired Pierce-Eislen®, a supplier of property- and market-level research and reporting for the multifamily industry in 58 markets throughout the U.S.