More stories about Archstone

  • Apartment Industry Still Fragmented

    The country's largest 50 owners and managers still account for only a small slice of the national rental stock.

  • Cut Costs and Empower Employees with Distance Learning

    Distance training saves money by keeping multifamily employees off planes and at their desks.

  • In the Back Office, Revenue Management Software is Causing a Revolution

    As revenue management software successfully pushes rents higher, the industry is rethinking its metrics and methods.

  • Beta Testing Helps Prove Multifamily Technology Prowess

    Beta testing and subsequent tech rollouts must follow a slow-but-steady mantra to meet multifamily muster.

  • Mission From God

    Rabbi Bruce Kahn is passionate about fair housing. But how did one man have such a polarizing effect on the multifamily housing community?

  • Under the Radar: Meet Scot Sellers

    Since a $22.2 billion buyout of the real estate investment trust by a partnership between Tishman Speyer and Lehman Bros. Holdings, the centrality of headquarters has continued to streamline the travel docket for Sellers and the Archstone-Smith executive team, who have been on the road introducing...

  • Public Exit: REIT Privatizations

    As you read this, history is being made. The joint venture of New York City private equity firms Tishman Speyer Properties and Lehman Bros. Holdings is about to seal the deal on its $22.2 billion acquisition of Denver, Colo.-based Archstone-Smith Trust, the titanic multifamily apartment real estate...

  • Archstone Boston Common

    Beantown's got a new neighbor. Archstone Boston Common—a 28-story apartment community—is the first high-rise residential development underway in downtown Boston in more than 20 years. The 420-unit project marks a major step in the redevelopment of the city's downtown. Archstone Boston Common is...

  • Little Black Boxes

    Jack Callison, president of U.S. operations at Archstone-Smith, remembers exactly how the industry reacted when the Englewood, Colo.-based REIT announced in 1999 that it was moving to electronic apartment pricing. “Everyone scoffed at us,” Callison recalls. “No one thought you could possibly...

  • Private Parties

    Archstone-Smith chairman and CEO R. Scot Sellers says his company has always been committed to maximizing value for its shareholders. Never was that more accurate than on May 29, when the Denver-based REIT announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to be acquired for $60.75 per share by a...