Your Favorite F&I Content of 2024

These newsletter posts were among the most visited this year.

Happy Holidays, readers! To help inform our Finance & Investment content for next year, we look back to see the trend stories, Viewpoints and Q&As that got the most visits from our subscribers! Here’s a sampling of your picks for the newsletter’s best content of 2024! If you are not already a subscriber, go to the MHN subscription page to sign up.

The DC Green Bank provided $2 million in construction financing for Cycle House, which is under development by Heleos LLC, a net-zero mixed-use development in Northwest DC. Cycle House provides 18 affordable housing units and commercial space. Photo by Matt Telzerow Photography.
In our May feature on green banks, MHN highlighted a mixed-use development in Northwest DC financed by DC Green Bank. Cycle House provides 18 affordable housing units and commercial space. Photo by Matt Telzerow Photography.

12. 20 Must-Know Affordable Housing Terms

This market sector has a vocabulary all its own. NHP Foundation’s Jason Soifer reviews the key expressions and their definitions.

11. 6 Myths About Passive House Construction

Skender Construction’s Brian Skender debunks common misconceptions about a rapidly growing specialty.

10. Can Green Banks Fast-Track the Switch to Clean Energy?

A historic federal investment is allowing mission-driven lenders to leverage public funds to lower costs for residents.

9. Why Workforce Housing Works for Institutional Investors

This undersupplied segment satisfies multiple portfolio objectives, according to Antonio Marquez of Comunidad Partners.

8. MHN Asks: When Will Multifamily Investment Recover?

Tour counts and bid lists for multifamily properties have rebounded to early 2022 levels, CP Capital’s Jay Remillard tells MHN.

7. Why Multifamily Finance Is Poised to Come Back to Life

We are at the “end of the beginning,” writes Gantry’s Andy Bratt.

Atlas Real Estate CEO Tony Julianelle
SFR developers are seizing on a “moment of time” when the cost of debt is high and home inventory is low,” Atlas CEO Tony Julianelle told MHN in August.

6. How SFR Investors Can Stay Ahead of the Curve

Atlas Real Estate CEO Tony Julianelle on trends in the single-family rental space.

5. Regional Banks Retreat as CRE Loans Mature

How the stepped-up risk of bank defaults is impacting new financings and existing loans.

4. MHN Asks: Why Isn’t There More Manufactured Housing?

3. Manufactured Housing Institute CEO Lesli Gooch on barriers to new supply.

2. Top Multifamily Owners

MHN’s annual ranking represents a broad range of market-rate and affordable asset categories.

1. Insurance Burdens Stymie Investment

The growing scarcity of coverage due to escalating climate risk puts much-needed housing capital in jeopardy.