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Ground Broken on UNT Student Housing

Fountain Residential Partners and Crosswind Development Partners have broken ground on 33 North, a 139-unit/427-bed student housing property in Denton, a small city north of Dallas.

MHN Interview: Company Pledges $750,000 to Support Affordable Housing Development

Enterprise Community Partners recently announced it will offer $750,000 in grant support to fund supportive and senior housing development. MHN talks to Victoria Shire, deputy director, neighborhood initiatives, Enterprise, about this new initiative.

TODAY'S DEALS: Harbor Group Buys Three-Property Portfolio for $100M

Harbor Group International acquires a 1,218-unit portfolio in Florida; MIG Real Estate buys a luxury asset in Austin; and Colliers International brokers the $2.7 million sale of a residential lot in a college area.

PROFILE: Silverado Senior Living

Loren Shook, who co-founded Silverado Senior Living with Stephen Winner, has a distinct philosophical approach to providing seniors housing for the memory impaired.

Kimble Ratliff Joins National Multi Housing Council as Director of Government Affairs

The National Multi Housing Council named Kimble Ratliff to the newly created position of Director of Government Affairs.

New Housing for Low-Income Seniors Breaks Ground Near Akron

Groundbreaking ceremonies were recently held for the AHEPA 63 Apartments, a new residential community for low-income older adults in Ohio.

RentJuice Introduces Ad Dashboard for Brokers to Analyze Marketing Efforts, Adjust Focus, Improve Results

RentJuice®, a Zillow® business and provider of lease marketing technology, announced the RentJuice Ad Dashboard, a marketing metrics dashboard that gives real estate offices, brokers and agents a place to analyze their efforts and take action to improve results.

NAHB Says Condo Market Shows Improvement

The National Association of Home Builders announced that the Multifamily Production Index, or MPI, reached its highest rating since the third quarter of 2005.

Economy Watch: Fed Report Details How Hard the Recession Hit

“Changes in U.S. Family Finances from 2007 to 2010: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances,” which the Fed released this week, quantified one painful aspect of the very real economic impact of the Panic of 2008 and subsequent Great Recession. The report shows that over the four years from 2007 to 2010, real median household income before taxes fell 7.7 percent.

What's on Your Apartment 'Laminated List'?

What feature or amenity would tempt you to drop everything for that apartment?