Editor's Note
About the Editor
Jessica Fiur is the managing editor at Multi-Housing News and Commercial Property Executive and writes the award-winning blog What Renters Want. She has been with the company since 2011 and previously was with Weekly Reader and IQPC. Contact Jessica at jessica.fiur@cpe-mhn.com or on Twitter @jfiur.
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Girl Power This has been a year.
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A Personal Touch Apartment marketing has been taken to a whole new level in the changed environment of the past several months.
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A Look Ahead No matter who the voters pick for president come Election Day on Nov. 3, there will be ramifications for multifamily.
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Next Phase As of Aug. 13, 86.9 percent of apartment residents had paid all or part of their rent, according to the National Multifamily Housing Council’s Rent Payment Tracker.
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Making Strides The past few months have been fraught with unprecedented challenges.
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Getting Schooled Students had to leave their housing during shelter in place. But that doesn’t mean student housing is going anywhere.
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Next Steps While that data notably includes partial payments, as many apartment managers worked with their residents to develop flexible solutions, it was better news than expected. Now to see how May and June hold up.
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Moving Forward It seems a little strange to be talking about anything other than coronavirus. But the multifamily industry will persevere.
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New Concepts While many developers are supplying new amenities in more traditional apartment homes—targeting greater community involvement, convenience and security—others are experimenting with alternative formats that in some cases seek to align residents with common interests and in others offer greater independence.
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Editor’s Note: Welcome to the New Decade While our vision for the new year is hardly as clear as 2020 would suggest it should be, the commercial and multifamily real estate industry enters this new decade with many fresh possibilities for security, efficiency and convenience.