Business Specialties

Reinventing Older Properties

How to compete with the new crop of buildings hitting the market.

Creative Revenue

New ideas for earning ancillary income at apartment communities.

Consumers Tip Scales of Home Price Change Expectations

More than half of Americans now expect the country’s home prices to climb within the next year, illustrating a growing optimism toward the health of the housing industry.

GSE Pullback

Multi-housing readies for less financing from Fannie and Freddie.

Gaia Pays $55M for Two East Providence Multifamily Communities

Gaia Real Estate has purchased the Winchester Park and Winchester Wood multifamily communities in East Providence for $55 million or $115,000 per unit.

MHN TV: Sources of Capital: Life Companies, Conduits, Banks

Denny St. Romain, managing director of Real Estate Investment Banking at Jones Lang LaSalle, discusses three sources of commercial real estate financing today: life companies, conduits and banks.

Conduits Competing Directly with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

Vic Clark, managing director of Centerline Capital Group, explains the increasing competitiveness of CMBS financing in the commercial real estate world.

Turnaround Experts

Adam Stein on WinnDevelopment’s Adaptive Reuse Strategy.

Special Report: From Concrete to Wetlands—NYC’s Blueway Plan

At a recent presentation in Manhattan called “The East River Blueway Plan,” speakers discussed plans to build a waterfront land area from the Brooklyn Bridge up to 38th Street. This land will act not only as a barrier to protect buildings from future storms and hurricanes, but also as a way to connect communities and encourage waterfront activities such as kayaking and fishing.

MHN Interview: Centerline Capital Group’s New Director of Affordable Housing Debt James Boris

Centerline Capital Group, a subsidiary of Centerline Holding Company, recently hired James F. Boris III as director, affordable housing debt. MHN talks to Boris about his new position and his predictions for the affordable and seniors housing industry.