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In an environment of growing rents, it’s more important than ever to stay on top of your operations to ensure you’re delivering the right products, services, and amenities to maximize your occupancies and rent rolls. Listen in as property managers from across the country share their observations on...
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Build, build, build. It seems that 2012 will see a ramp up of apartment construction activity across the board. But what deals are happening—and at what terms? We ask some of the industry’s most well-respected apartment developers to share their insights on the development outlook and the state of...
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Tune into the future as senior multifamily executives and their capital partners offer up their predictions for how 2012 will shape up. These leaders will take a deep dive into everything from the state of the eceonomic markets to the election and GSE reform to their personal business objectives...
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Last month, the apartment industry scored what the National Multi Housing Council terms a “significant victory” as a judge rejected a Justice Department (DOJ) request for summary judgment in a case filed against Dallas-based JPI Apartment Construction.
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Bozzuto development president Toby Bozzuto checks in with Multifamily Executive to talk about $200 million in new D.C. and Baltimore developments.
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More than150 multifamily industry sales and operations professionals pinpoint some of the top strategies for utilizing video, social media, and CRM systems in order to improve and refine the multifamily vendor sales channel.
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John Sebree is no stranger to Encino, Calif.–based Marcus & Millichap. He started in the firm's Chicago office in 1991 and opened the Indianapolis branch in 1997. In 2008, he decided to move over to Holliday Fenoglio Fowler as managing director, but now he’s back with M&M, as the new director of...
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The University of Kentucky is on the verge of making a move that could change the ballgame in the student housing business. Earlier this week, the Lexington, Ky.-based school put out a press release announcing that it was in negotiation with Memphis-based student housing REIT Educational Realty...
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Multifamily Executive Senior Editor Chris Wood rounds up interesting and intriguing news tidbits. This week’s pet-friendly lineup: multifamily’s best friend, picking up around the property, and keeping the lights on.
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In the past six quarters, Birmingham, Ala.-based Colonial Properties Trust has bought 10 assets for $298 million and sold another six properties for $105.8 million under its capital recycling program. But the REIT isn’t just focused on buying and selling. It’s also funneling some of that capital...
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The New York City–based Gotham Organization recently announced that it has commenced construction on a $520 million residential development encompassing nearly an entire city block in Manhattan.
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Chicago-based RentSentinel launches an application to give leasing agents the ability to manage an entire portfolio’s worth of social media sites directly from a single platform.
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In their recent third-quarter earnings calls, apartment REIT CEOs noted that as occupancies tighten and rents move up, something else encouraging is happening—the quality of residents is also improving.
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Multifamily Executive is keeping close tabs on the potential sale of Archstone, as Lehman Bros., Bank of America, and Barclay’s try to navigate the right disposition strategy for the portfolio that was taken private for $22 billion in 2007. Check out our coverage, along with breaking news from...
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Manny Gonzalez, a principal at Irvine, Calif.–based architectural firm KTGY, remembers when 60 percent of the new units he designed were two-bedrooms or larger. Now, he’s designing communities consisting of 60 percent one-bedrooms or smaller, and that has him worried. He is not alone.
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Multifamily Executive Senior Editor Chris Wood rounds up interesting and intriguing news tidbits. This week: pure energy, electrocutions, the Porsche pad, plus hidden 80s music playlists*.
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For most analysts listening in on the apartment REITs’ third-quarter conference calls, fundamentals were the key. They wanted to know where rents were moving, whether traffic slumped after August’s economic woes, and the will fare in the traditionally slower winter months. While those questions...
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For a while, Chicago-based Equity Residential has been rumored as a potential buyer for parts of Denver-based Archstone’s massive portfolio. A Wednesday report from The Wall Street Journal verifies that speculation, saying that Equity Residential “has emerged as the lead bidder in the contest to...
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Failure to begin energy benchmarking initiatives will result in competitive disadvantages for apartment owners relying on institutional investment partners, lenders, asset and portfolio purchasers, renters, and the general public.
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Better integration of IT and operations, seat at strategy table highlight trends at NMHC Technology and Operations Conference.
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Coming into the apartment REITs' third-quarter conference calls, analysts had one overriding concern: Is there a slowdown looming?
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New and established multifamily listing sites are getting creative and competitive in the quest for Gen Y prospects.
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MULTIFAMILY EXECUTIVE senior editor Chris Wood rounds up interesting and intriguing news tidbits. This week: cakes, credit, and commitment.
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Despite economic uncertainty, the apartment transaction market remained strong in the third quarter, according to commercial real estate research firm Real Capital Analytics.
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Most third-quarter conference calls are usually just a warm up for the fourth-quarter calls. Analysts know the real news comes in the fourth quarter when apartment REITs start to provide a picture of what the coming year looks like.
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Multifamily Executive Senior Editor Chris Wood rounds up interesting and intriguing news tidbits. This week: the Perez Hilton security deposit issue starring Dita Von Teese, Will Ferrell, and Faye Dunaway.
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By using social media as a tool to leverage “crowdsourced placemaking,” Renaissance Downtowns overcame an initial two-story height restriction with a concept plan that now includes a seven- to nine-story boutique hotel, a town square piazza, and 3,500 apartment units, all by resident request.
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Gables Residential's new website at Gables.com is designed to assist prospects in the apartment-search and leasing process while helping the Atlanta-based company continue to refine its product offerings.
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Think back a couple of years. Supply soaked Florida dominated the real estate headlines with foreclosures, distress, and investors fleeing from their downpayments. Now, national multifamily firms such as Alliance Residential, Gables Residential, and Wood Partners are making big building bets on the...
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The economists at the Multifamily Executive Conference’s annual Economic Roundtable and State of the Industry panel are optimistic that the country won’t experience a double-dip recession.
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Mark Alfieri, COO of the multifamily platform at Dallas-based Behringer Harvard, was named the 2011 Executive of the Year by Multifamily Executive magazine at the MFE Awards luncheon in Las Vegas on Oct. 4, 2011. Alfieri was one of two individual honors and more than 40 awards presented at the...
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Attendees and speakers at the 2011 Multifamily Executive Conference, held Oct. 3-5, 2011, at the ARIA Hotel & Casino in CityCenter Las Vegas, were assertive in voicing their optimism about the future of multifamily, pointing to a resurgence in the capital markets, rising occupancy and rent levels...
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The apartment transaction market remains a tale of two cities, with institutional players competing heavily in the core, and smaller private local groups dominating in secondary and tertiary markets.
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The multifamily debt market is evolving toward a more diverse competitive landscape beyond Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but it's a slow evolution.
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The market for equity looking to invest in multifamily remains strong, but a flight to quality has widened the gap between primary and secondary markets.
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The construction debt market has slowly but surely returned, though the lessons learned through the last downturn are informing today's more conservative approach.
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As Congress continues to mull housing finance reform, the multifamily industry has grown more visible in the debate.
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The world has gotten a lot better for property managers over the past couple of years. Instead and slashing and burning to get residents to stay, they’re now bumping up rents as much as they can.
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Despite benefiting from steady debt financing and being universally bullish on new apartment development fundamentals, multifamily builders remain skittish over the impact of macroeconomic trends on job creation and land and constructions costs.
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With stiffening competition in the acquisitions market and development still limited by debt limitations and burdensome entitlement process, what's an entrepreneurial firm to do if it wants to generate healthy returns?
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Gen Y is coming. And, according to studies and a lot of anecdotal evidence, they want to be near the action.
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Last year, David Nischwitz, senior vice president and director of property redevelopment for Memphis-based REIT MAA was the only person on the redevelopment panel at the Multifamily Executive Conference that was really bullish on redevelopment. A year later, Nischwitz says MAA is planning to...
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With uncertain economic indicators, record-low interest rates, and a favorable supply-demand equation, apartment owners have a host of variables to consider as they manage their portfolios going forward.
Consider refinancing for instance. In the past an owner may have shied away from...