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Chicago — Campus Acquisitions, a Chicago-based firm focused on student housing development, has acquired two student housing projects for undisclosed amounts in South Carolina and Texas. More

Getting In On the Ground Floor

Last fall, in the heart of Memphis, Tenn., workers swarmed over a gothic revival skyscraper that had stood vacant and crumbling for more than 10 years. More

Workforce Housing Welcomes New Subsidy

Developers looking to capitalize on the growing market for workforce housing can get one step closer to making their projects pencil out by tapping a government program designed to funnel investment into disadvantaged areas. More

The Carrot and the Stick

When AvalonBay Communities, Inc., builds new apartments in the suburbs of Boston, it builds workforce housing. More

Middle-Class Dream: Rental

Jeremiah Jeffries is entering his second decade of teaching elementary school, and... More

Roosevelt Island Goes Upscale

New York City —Tall new buildings of glass and stone, filled with thousands of new luxury apartments and condominiums, and mixed with a sprinkling of housing affordable to moderate-income tenants, are now rising in the empty lots of Roosevelt Island. More

Mortgage Lending

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) marched on Capitol Hill in April in an effort to save the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) multifamily programs from a proposed mortgage insurance premium (MIP) rate hike marked for the 2007 federal budget prop More

Luxury rehab comes to Newark

Newark, N.J. – In March, the first potential tenants were shopping for apartments at eleven80, a historic Art Deco high-rise overlooking Military Park, just a few blocks away from Newark’s Penn Station. More

Strategic decisions

Anaheim, Calif., is building a new central business district in what has traditionally been a sprawling suburban community.  More

Builders find new reasons to go solar

Nothing says “green building” more clearly than a gleaming line of solar panels... More

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