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Four Creative Ways to Increase the Bottom Line

Some multifamily firms have been able to creatively wrestle new dollars, while cutting expenses, by uncovering latent opportunities...
Multifamily Developers Make Moves to Round Out Their Business Models

Throughout the recession, many multifamily builders diversified to survive, positioning themselves for long-term stability.

Multifamily Dispositions Move to By-the-Pound Pricing

While cap-rate centric institutional buyers mindful of market fundamentals are balking at cap rate compression, opportunistic private...
Orlando Multifamily Market Has a Sunny Forecast

Class A multifamily housing fundamentals in Orlando remain stable, even as the city emerges from the recession.

Owners in the New Economy: Grappling with Insurance Costs
Experts like Wadsworth say many multifamily firms—particularly those without risk management units—are not likely to fair as well with renewals this year as property and liability insurance costs continue to increase due to the overall weak economy.
New Report Calls for Bold Action to Protect the Country’s Coastlines
On the heels of the 2009 hurricane season, a coalition of insurers, public officials, risk experts, builders, and conservation groups have released a blueprint of policy changes and common sense actions likely to reduce hurricane-related economic losses along U.S. coastlines by as much as half.
Multifamily Insurance Costs Drop... For Now
Insurance premiums fall at multifamily properties, according to NMHC survey.
Protect and Serve: Need For Renter's Insurance Up
While still in the minority, the number of renters who currently carry renter's insurance may surprise you. According to “What Renters Want”—an online survey of 1,500 active renters across the country conducted by Apartments.com—42.5 percent of apartment residents have a policy in hand...

REITs Score in Second Quarter, But Clouds Remain
The apartment REITs hit full recovery mode as net operating income rose from -2.2 percent to 2.8 percent and revenues rose from -0.2 percent to 0.7 percent across REIT land in the quarter, according to Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, an investment banking and security brokerage firm based in New York.
Analysts Expect Strong Second Quarters
Most apartment analysts expected the optimism that reigned in June’s NAREIT conference to continue into the second quarter reports and conference calls. So far, they’ve been proven correct.
REIT Watch: Analysts Cite Highlights from First Quarter Reports
Most analysts believe that the apartment REITs turned the corner in the first quarter of 2010, citing historically high sequential revenue growth. But that’s not all the analysts saw and heard from the first quarter results and conference calls. Here’s a look at three of the biggest highlights and...
Ranking of REITs' Third-Quarter Results Shows Surprises
Funds from operations (FFO), moreso than occupancy levels or net operating income (NOI), is the generally accepted measure of operating performance for real estate investment trusts. And in the third quarter of 2009, with unemployment mounting, apartment REITs saw their FFO take a hit. Here is a...

Zandi: Recession Will End This Year
Moody’s economist also says housing will not be ‘an early source of growth’ in this recovery.
Andres Carbacho-Burgos, Economist, Moody's Economy.com
What will employment look like in 2009? How will the downturn affect the apartment market? Our interview covers this and other economic issues.
Going With the Flow
Sometimes too much of a good thing can be, well, too much. "This is as difficult an investment climate as I've ever seen," says David Schwartz, managing member of real estate investment firm Waterton Associates in Chicago.
Total Exposure
High home prices in hot markets like Southern California and Washington, D.C., are destroying the dreams of many wannabe homebuyers. But some apartment owners are reveling in these sky-high price tags, which help fuel business for the rental market.

Multifamily Land Market Shows Signs of Life
In another sign that their could be life in the long dormant land market, San Francisco-based BRE Properties announced Tuesday that it had acquired 2.4 acres of land in downtown Sunnyvale, Calif., for approximately $19 million. It plans to build 280 units on the site.
Multifamily Developers Struggle With Land Values in Nascent Stages of Market Recovery
Multifamily Developers Struggle With Land Values in Nascent Stages of Market Recovery
Fueled by Growth
Alliance Residential Co. isn't in the property management business to make money. The company's president, Bruce Ward, a self-described developer at heart, is adamant about that. That's right: The former fee-management arm of Trammell Crow Residential West—which found a three-year home at San...
Las Vegas: Roll the Dice
Dirt, dirt everywhere, but not a piece of land for a multifamily project. For Las Vegas, this is a major factor affecting the multifamily market, and the effects have multifamily developers frustrated, multifamily owners thrilled, and investors ready to act as soon as opportunities become available.

Four Creative Ways to Increase the Bottom Line
Some multifamily firms have been able to creatively wrestle new dollars, while cutting expenses, by uncovering latent opportunities throughout the downturn.
Summer Showers: Multifamily Firms Conserve with High-Tech Irrigation System
Many apartment communities around the country are well into their peak watering season (usually March to June). But turning that spigot on is getting more and more expensive.
Managing Expenses Will be Vital to Survival
Multifamily owners need to know that when it comes to cutting costs, nothing is off the table.
Options for Cabinet Upgrades
Some owners choose to reface or repaint outdated cabinets while others choose to replace them.