As rent growth resumes in earnest, more developers are starting significant rehabs, fueled by an increasingly healthy market for bridge loans.
The Research Triangle has emerged as one of the nation's hottest secondary markets, as cap rates continue to trend down, and more development activity is expected.
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A little-known and rarely used federal financing program is starting to gain traction among commercial real estate developers.
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With $2 billion added in the second quarter of 2011, new additions to the distressed apartment pools have reached their lowest levels since the second quarter of 2008, according to the “Apartment Mid-Year in Review” report from New York-based research firm Real Capital Analytics (RCA).
Alliance Residential CFO Jay Hiemenz checks in with MFE for an exclusive look at dispositions, the recovery of secondary markets, and the return of the merchant builder model to the multifamily development arena.
Keep an eye on that economy. If college and university enrollment trends during the recession are any indication, continued economic stress will likely propel jobless Gen Y renters back to school, and to the off-campus multifamily student housing communities that have supplanted traditional dorm...
Foreign investors have spent about $2 billion so far this year on U.S. apartments, despite a 21-year-old law that imposes stiff tax penalties on cross-border investment in real estate.
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For the second time this year, a REIT is launching a rebranding initiative. Last month, before second-quarter results came out, Denver-based Aimco, the nation’s seventh-largest apartment owner, announced that it was revamping its logo to meet the tastes of a new generation of 20- to 35-year-old...
More than 20 bills dealing with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and housing finance reform in general have been proposed in the House of Representatives, but few if any have gained traction. Meanwhile, the GSEs continue to march toward profitability, potentially paving the way for a spin-off.