Operations & Technology

Campus Apartments Wins Race to Launch First Student Housing App

With smartphones becoming more prevalent by the minute, Campus Apartments’ SmartClick Mobile became the first student housing app.

Grants for Renewable Energy Running Out

With the Treasury’s grants set to expire at the end of the year, renewable energy projects are at risk.

Historic Chicago Redevelopment Becomes Green Apartments

Chicago–An apartment property that combines historic renovation with green building features is now leasing on the West Side of Chicago, and developers say the combination is helping to attract tenants.

Apartment Life Expands Resident Retention Program

Euless, Tex.–Apartment Life has just brought in two industry veterans, Bobby Page and Colette Strange, to help expand its successful CARES onsite resident-retention program across the country.

Q&A: The Habitat Company’s Mark Segal

Mark Segal talks to MHN about technological innovations that are making property management more efficient, and about why the echo-boomer generation is more likely to rent than to buy.

Apartment Managers See Marked Improvements in Fundamentals This Year

The economic downturn certainly had a negative impact on the apartment sector, but notable improvements in the market from 2009 to 2010 indicate that the worst may very well be over.

Pioneering Green Mixed-Income Project Underway in St. Louis

St. Louis–Construction has commenced on Arlington Grove in St. Louis, and the 112-unit mixed-income residential redevelopment may spark a green trend in the creation of properties that unite low-income and market-rate units under one roof.

Pioneering Green Mixed-Income Project Underway in St. Louis

St. Louis–Construction has commenced on Arlington Grove in St. Louis, and the 112-unit mixed-income residential redevelopment may spark a green trend in the creation of properties that unite low-income and market-rate units under one roof.

ACH to Usher Student Housing into the iPhone Realm

Houston–Asset Campus Housing is breaking new ground in the student housing world by introducing the very first student housing iPhone application, which will revolutionize the leasing process for those searching for and living in student apartment properties.

NY Condo, Co-Op Owners Face Escalating Charges in 2011

New York–A new report by Cooper Square Realty Inc. contains some unpleasant news for condo-unit owners and co-op shareholders in the city.