Events

Events

• Multifamily Executive Hosts Feb. 28 Webinar on Obamacare

  Nearly two dozen taxes embedded in the act take effect this year, and you’re under pressure to make key decisions about what kind of health insurance you should provide—or whether to offer health insurance at all. To help you make the right choices, two experts will discuss the Affordable Care Act...

   

• Apartment Owners in Alabama Deal with Aftermath of Tornado

  A number of Alabama apartment complexes were in the path of the tornado that smashed through Tuscaloosa, Ala., last week.

   

• Industry Frets Over GSE Brain Drain

  The uncertainty surrounding the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is making life difficult for those in the trenches at the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). And the multifamily industry is growing increasingly worried that a brain drain will occur at the GSEs given their precarious and...

   

• Bulls vs. Bears Debate Multifamily Outlook at AFT Conference

  While the outlook for the multifamily industry is inspiring optimism, several factors might still derail the sector's recovery, warned panelists at the 2011 Apartment Finance Today Conference, held in Dallas earlier this week.

   

• Apartment Industry Shows Exuberance at NMHC Meetings, but is the Optimism Too Much?

  The decidedly warm Southern California desert didn’t stand a chance against the hot prospecting and fevered optimism felt by apartment industry executives who swarmed the La Quinta Resort & Spa in Palm Springs this week at the National Multi Housing Council’s jointly held Apartment Strategies...

   

• Industry Executives at IBS Stress Need for Apartment Development

  The message at today’s multifamily industry press conference at the International Builders Show in Orlando, Fla., is that demand is back for apartments, but supply does appear to be catching up anytime soon. And, with the nation having up to 2 million fewer households than it should given the...

   

• National Apartment Association Conference Kick-Off Appears Upbeat

  With total attendance trending well ahead of last year's event, the National Apartment Association kicked off its annual education conference and expo with solid energy and a positive outlook for the future.

   

• Economists Say Outlook for Apartment Finance Sector is Mixed

  Call it cautious optimism. Unclear but not dire. Choppy. Mixed. Whatever you call it, the economic outlook is, at best, uncertain. So concluded a panel of powerhouse economists at the 2010 Apartment Finance Today Conference in Fort Lauderdale yesterday.

   

• Tom Bozzuto Offers Lessons for Recession Survival

  Tom Bozzuto, the chairman of Greenbelt, Md.-based The Bozzuto Group, is also a real estate veteran, with 40 years of experience under his belt. So the recession survival guide he offered a group of apartment finance professionals this week at the 2010 Apartment Finance Today Conference in Fort...

   

• At NMHC Annual Meeting, Optimism Abounds as Industry Prepares for Investment Activity in 2010

  Optimism is making a comeback at the National Multi Housing Council’s Apartment Strategies Conference and Annual Meeting this week.