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Creating the Blend
Versatile HTG Brings Fresh Approaches to Affordable Communities. Since its founding more than 20 years ago, Coconut Grove, Fla.-based Housing Trust Group has completed upward of $2 billion worth of transactions. HTG’s 5,900-unit portfolio spans Florida, the Southeast and Arizona, and includes market-rate, affordable and student communities. Its development pipeline exceeds $235 million. HTG President & CEO Matthew Rieger recently discussed development, affordable housing and strategy with MHN.
Winning Favor
Getting apartment residents to think green can often be a heavy lift, since renters typically don’t have a direct financial stake in their homes. However, there are creative strategies to get residents engaged in energy conservation in a way that benefits them and their apartment community, according to these industry veterans.
Survival of the Retro-Fittest
A growing list of financing options is making it easier to turn existing apartment properties green. Clearly, the real estate financing market is embracing energy-saving property retrofits.
Who’s the greenest?
Energy efficiency matters to residential real estate stakeholders for any number of reasons. However, three reasons stand out. First, energy can be a significant contributor to the overall cost of housing, especially for low- and moderate-income households. Second, for housing providers, energy performance—or lack thereof—can influence a property’s value. And third, as climate change and pollution challenge the world, political and social pressures to reduce carbon emissions are mounting. On this last point, real estate is fundamental to reducing carbon emissions. According to the most recent data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, residential and commercial buildings accounted for 40…
Top Real Estate Education Programs 2017
As the demand for higher education increases across industries, the number of universities with real estate-specific programs continues to grow. Here is the 2017 MHN-CPE Leaders in Real Estate Education.
Architecture Q&A: Social Style
For more than 40 years, Killefer Flammang Architects has been at the leading edge of multifamily design, contributing to the never-ending evolution of the Los Angeles landscape.
The Cost of Green: Is the Price Right?
By some measures, sustainable practices are rapidly becoming the norm in the multifamily sector. Although sizing up the true costs of sustainability can be challenging, investors and managers have a variety of best practices and analytical tools to work with.
Embracing Efficiency
Since the Great Recession, the U.S. has increasingly become a renter nation. Renters encompass more than one-third of total U.S. households, with 18.7 million households residing in buildings with five or more units, according to National Multifamily Housing Council data.
Transactions: April 2017
The following is a list of transactions that were announced between Jan. 25, 2017 and Feb. 21, 2017.
Group Effort
Submetering has long been a great tool, enabling multifamily property owners to shift utility expenses to residents based on their consumption.