‘On the Ground’ with Eric Brown: Digital Domination
Bringing Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Facebook into your marketing strategy has become essential to expanding your presence and communicating with your community.
DEAL OF THE DAY: Marcus & Millichap Brokers $52.3M Sale of Apt. Property in Bay Area
Burlingame, Calif.–Marcus & Millichap has brokered the $52.3 million sale of Skyline Terrace, a 138-unit, 174,371-square foot multifamily property in Burlingame, a suburb of San Francisco.
Eliane Introduces Ecocement Floor and Wall Tiles
Brazil-based company Eliane has launched its new collection called Ecocement, which has been constructed with 20 percent pre-consumer recycled content for LEED designs with tile in commercial or residential building projects.
INVESTMENT: Transwestern Named Exclusive Sales Agent for 1,107-Unit Multifamily Portfolio
Bethesda, Md.–Transwestern’s Bethesda, Md.-based multifamily group has been named by United Investors Management Corp. as exclusive agent for the sale of a 1,107-unit multifamily portfolio located in Prince George’s County, Md.
Oi Cellular Furniture: A Unique Couch to Lounge On
Oi’s new cellular furniture system is a unique line of seating and surface components, which fit onto a 30-in. x 30-in. base to create a cell. The cells can be combined to create hundreds of configurations.
INVESTMENT: Engler Places Florida Class A Apt. Community on the Market
Lake Mary, Fla.–Engler Financial Group, LLC has been selected as the exclusive sales agent for Bentley Park at Timacuan.
PODCAST: September 2010 Forecast with Bernard M. Markstein, III, NAHB Economist
View the digital version of MHN’s market pulse on pages 10 and 11.
DEAL OF DAY: Transwestern Arranges Off-Market $16.65M Sale in Rising Phoenix Market
Phoenix–In a move that it says signals the emerging recovery of Phoenix’s multifamily
‘Editor’s Notebook’ A Visit to the Wind Farm: My Missed Opportunity
It’s graduation season, and last weekend my sister-in-law threw a well-deserved party for our niece Monica who has completed high school. So, as planned, less than 24 hours (!) after I got home from NAA in New Orleans, I packed my overnight bag and we drove the five or so hours up to the Syracuse, NY area. A highlight of my socializing with friends and family was the discovery that just 30 minutes away from my sister-in-law is a working wind farm. MHN reports on renewable energy trends, but here was an opportunity to see a real wind farm up…
‘Editor’s Notebook’ More Apartment Marketing Take-Aways (or ‘Tweets I Should Have Posted’)
I just got back from the NAA conference in New Orleans. Attended lots of great sessions with my MHN colleague Anu Kher (including Social Media Marketing Fact and Fiction and How Good Is Your Property’s Crisis Management Plan) enjoyed catching up with industry folks, shot lots of videos for MHN TV which we’ll begin posting this week, and saw some interesting products which we’ll cover in the August issue of MHN magazine. On the flight back I came across some notes scribbled in April during the Apartment Internet Marketing Conference. I meant to turn them into something longer, but got…