With a new survey showing three-quarters of drivers would consider an alternative fuel vehicle for their next car, multifamily owners are looking to electric car charging stations as an attractive amenity that can lure the new eco-conscious generation of renter.
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Development is starting to pick up in those markets that fell the hardest. This week we look at the developers bulking up in the Sunshine State.
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The NAHB added 17 cities to its Housing Market Improvement List in May, including major metropolitan area Phoenix.
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With almost 80 million potential Gen Y renters due to the market, developers have been creative over the past 12- to 24-month cycle to meet their demands. And this tech-savvy, massive demographic is not always easy to please. But Rohit Anand, a design principal at KTGY and Jeff Kayce, vice...
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A couple of years ago, distress was the buzzword in the apartment industry. Now, as the recovery strengthens, distress is falling even farther.
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The Federal Housing Administration recently sent notice that it will be increasing mortgage insurance premiums on multifamily loans in 2013.
The design of H Street was informed by a mountain of research, and careful deliberation. Jon Cox, senior vice president of AvalonBay, and Rohit Anand, a principal with KTGY, discuss the forces that shaped H Street's evolution.
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Plenty of deals were inked this week, reaffirming that there is no longer a doubt in anyone’s mind—the reign of the rental is not going anywhere.
What do Greece's perilous position and Facebook's triumphant situation have in common with multifamily development? It's all about community.
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To get a better idea of where developers are looking to add supply to the rental market, let’s take a look at the metro areas where the most building permits for 5+ units were issued in 2011.
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The panelists at yesterday’s NMHC Apartment Strategies/Finance Conference overwhelmingly remained steadfast in their belief in that the apartment industry is due for a nice run over the next few years. But they said it may be difficult to keep pushing rent increases as a number of markets push past...
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As always, April brought a flurry of data and commentary about how the apartment industry performed over the winter. And if the REITs and various data providers are to be believed, things looked very good in the first three
months of 2012.
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Forbes recently took a look at the nation’s fastest-growing cities and ranked Austin first, for the second year in a row.
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Walk Score has released a new study wherein it ranks the top 25 metros for public transportation based on its latest metric, aptly dubbed Transit Score.
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Some recent studies have shed new light on the driving forces behind the buying decisions of Gen Y.
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The Center for an Urban Future recently used venture capital investment data to rank the nation's most important high-tech centers. And New York City, or Silicon Alley, has emerged as a force.
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The Washington, D.C.-based Bipartisan Policy Center took a stab at projecting how the aging Baby Boomers and their offspring, the Echo Boomers, will shape the housing market through 2030.
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Student debt has now passed $1 trillion, the average student loan tally is around $25,000, and those in the early-20s face an unemployment rate of more than 13 percent. If you're a Millennial, you probably feel like you lost the generational lottery.
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The jobs are there, but you should have chosen the majors that employers are actually looking for. Here’s a look at the odds of being hired, for different majors.
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The college education bubble, it's said, is at bursting point, as students often wind up "underwater" on the return on investment value of their college loans.