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Improvisation is Necessary in the Real Estate Business

When it comes to distress funds, operations, or even travel, you have to improvise to stay alive.
Shifting Household Compositions

The NMHC studies the Current Population Survey to uncover exactly how household compositions have changed during the economic downturn.
A Jobless Recovery is Nothing More Than an Illusion

Market fundamentals don't support the recovery that's been seen in the first half of the year. What's going on?

New Fair Housing Report Questions Current Standards

A new fair housing report commissioned by the National Multi Housing Council (NMHC) challenges whether the current standards and existing safe harbors are the only means of achieving accessibility.
NMHC Tech Spending Survey Sees Move to Outsourcing

In a report released April 15 updating a 2008 survey on how multifamily technology executives allocate their budget dollars, the Washington, D.C.-based National Multi Housing Council (NMHC) finds spending on outsourcing has nearly doubled, comprising 23.63 percent of apartment IT budgets in 2009...
Top 5 Policy Points on Multifamily's National Agenda

Renewal of NMHC, NAA legislative partnership promises three more years of collaborative lobbying on behalf of the apartment industry.
National Green Building Standard Goes Mainstream

Legislators and multifamily developers embrace green standards and practices.
Top 5 Policy Points on Multifamily's National Agenda

The Washington, D.C.-based National Multi Housing Council (NMHC) and Arlington, Va.-based National Apartment Association (NAA) announced last month that they have agreed to continue their joint legislative program to lobby Capitol Hill on behalf of the multifamily apartment industry. Here are their...