Sound issues tend to take a back seat to architectural design when a building is on the drawing board. At least that's what you'll hear from acoustical consultants who work with multifamily developers. “When it's time to think about economy and the value of the building, control of sound gets...
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...
Jane Fulton Suri's book may be titled Thoughtless Acts, but her approach to design couldn't be any more considred.
Profound social, cultural, and demographic trends are reshaping the way we live, work, and play. In the process, these trends are paving the way for a rental housing boom unlike anything seen in recent history. For the first time in decades, economic conditions—notably expensive housing prices and...
The issue of affordable housing is becoming an increasingly important presidential race talking point.
AIMCO's energy team drives the bottom line.
Rentometer.com, an online tool introduced last fall, shows property owners and managers as well as renters how a community's rents stack up to comparable units in nearby apartment buildings.
When residents move in to the Towne Centre at Englewood, they can unpack to tunes blasting from their own iPods thanks to handy built-in docking stations in each unit.
For three decades, San Jose and the greater Silicon Valley have been among the fastest growing areas in the western United States. While the market no doubt suffered through a not-so-pretty dot-com bust in 2001, that era is past. Taking its place is an economy that is once again deep into a...
It's lease renewal time, and if the departure of Brad the Broker in Unit 134 is taking your leasing agent and property manager by surprise, your company is already losing money.
Sometimes you've just got to have faith. How else could you successfully turn a church into student housing on a tight 3-acre site in less than 18 months? The developers of Sanctuary Lofts in San Marcos, Texas, did just that, thanks to a little bit of belief in their vision and a whole lot of...
For nearly a decade, Mark Bryant has been an integral part of the development of JPI's Central residential and student living division.
Blending into its Sacramento neighborhood was always the goal for North Avenue Apartments, an 80-unit affordable housing project. Accomplishing that feat took some design creativity.
Cascadia Village Apartments looks more like a mountain lodge resort than a typical traditional apartment complex. The 51-unit property in Vancouver, Wash., features green and dark tan exteriors accentuated by wooden planks and triangular roofs. Lush trees in the background give the rental property...
Traditionally, the world of multifamily finance has been anything but exotic. After all, given the steady dividends that apartment companies pay investors, customary financiers in the space have comprised big insurance companies and old-line banks looking for lower-risk, income-producing returns.
What do the stars of futuristic thrillers such as “The Matrix” and residents living in a multifamily property in the year 2012 have in common? Both will likely use biometrics—retina scans, thumbprints, and other biological data—to gain access into secure areas such as apartment buildings.
Clarendon Baptist Church had a pretty sketchy start. Built in 1868 in Boston's South End district, the church was deemed “spiritually dead” by some locals. Its pews were rented, church attendance was low, and there was no sense of unity within the congregation.
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