Business Specialties

Web Feature: Implementing Creative Ideas at Your Community

Property managers find new ways to facilitate interaction among residents.

Get Ready for ‘Fair Value’

A new method of reporting commercial real estate asks ‘what can you sell the property for?’

Maximize Efficiencies for Student Housing Turns

It’s nearly that time of year—when student housing owners and operators are preparing for the busiest season and the dreaded turnover. While conventional apartments have the luxury of spacing out turnovers throughout the year, student housing turns occur in a span of about two weeks.

Two New Affordable Housing Projects Open in L.A. County

Palo Verde Terrace in Palmdale and The Gardens on Garfield in Glendale, two affordable housing projects

The Next Generation CMBS Loan

Who would have thought during the depths of the financial crisis that CMBS financing would be returning to the market by early 2010, if at all? But that is indeed happening.

Clearing the Air

Is your building making your residents sick?

Labor Pains

Passage of the card check bill is unlikely, but employee classification is picking up steam

An Early Start for GSE Reform

Multifamily trade groups mobilize to keep apartment lending on track

Fundamental Growth

Unlike most markets, Washington, D.C.’s current conditions favor the apartment owner looking to sell

Pushing Paperless Rent Payment

Residents are slow to adopt, but new options continue to be rolled out as education efforts are stepped up