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ChargePro Gets Your Residents’ PEVs Juiced
Companies such as Bozzuto and LaSalle Investment Management have realized that there is a resident demand for convenient and fast ways to charge electric vehicles. The two firms recently selected SemaConnect to provide four electric vehicle charging stations at their Senate Square Towers property in Washington, D.C.
California Market Report
As development picks up, competition is heavy for existing assets.
TODAY’S DEALS: Embrey Partners Sells 263 Units in Colorado
Inland Real Estate Group buys a Colorado asset from Embrey Partners; KeyBank provides $28.7 million for a development in North Carolina; and NorthMarq Capital closes on a $10.8 million refinance that won favorable pricing.
Editor’s Note: Are Green Apartments Good Enough?
The new WELL Building Standard emphasizes health.
IREM and University of Alabama Collaborate to Advance Real Estate Management Education and Careers
The Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM®) and the University of Alabama (UA), founded in 1831 as Alabama’s first public college, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
HAP Investments Starts on East Harlem Apartments
Ground has been broken for 329 Pleasant Ave. in Harlem, N.Y., which will be called HAP 5. The property will rise eight stories in the eastern part of that neighborhood, and contain 20 apartment units.
Axiometrics Report Highlights Apartment Rent Growth in March
The national apartment market experienced a slight uptick in annual effective rent growth during March 2014, increasing at a rate of 3.1 percent, according to the monthly report by Axiometrics.
Economy Watch: Pending Home Sales See Uptick
Housing numbers have been trending negative lately, at least in terms of sales (prices are still going up), but the National Association of Realtors reported that after months of going nowhere, its pending home sales rose in March.
Sterling Properties Begins Leasing First Building at RiverBend East at Wappingers Falls
Sterling Properties has announced that is has begun leasing in the first building of the company’s new development RiverBend East at Wappingers Falls in Dutchess County, N.Y.