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Aimco, the seventh biggest apartment owner on last year’s Multifamily Executive Top 50, completed its marketing with the launch of a new website this week. To get the final product, it tapped into examples from hotels, cruise lines, and focus groups.
Institutional investors are adopting apartment revenue management technologies at increasing rates.
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MRI Software LLC, a leading developer of innovative real estate management and investment software solutions for the global real estate industry, announced today that it has acquired Realty DataTrust Corporation, the holding company for VaultWare.
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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.
Apartment operartors are likely to benefit from the proliferation of web-based and software as a service offerings now becoming popular in the industry.
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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.
The emergence of greater instiutional investor ownership in the apartment sector has necessitated a new breed of balance-sheet aware, technology literate property managers.
Apartment prospects say that search engines, ILSs and drive-by are their top three sources for finding a new unit.
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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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New and established multifamily listing sites are getting creative and competitive in the quest for Gen Y prospects.
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Debit card transaction fee changes could further hasten apartment resident migration to electronic/mobile rent payments.
While apartment residents prefer email and cell phone calls to communicate with property managers, a new survey reveals the need for customer service across a broad range of communication channels.
Opportunities and strategies for multifamily apartment companies to leverage the power of social media.
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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.
Multifamily Operators Who Fail to Continue Green, IT investments will likely lose out on Gen Y Renters
Rental applicant screening professionals stress a more hands-on and holistic approach to prospect approval.
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Broad industry adoption, maturation of systems highlight trends at first annual Apartment Revenue Management Conference.
Apartment Firms Adopt Behavioral Profiling Technologies to Identify Qualified Employees
With products such as central-control systems, hubs, and interfaces, student housing developers are removing barriers to technology usage.