Behind the scenes of the National Apartment Association’s CampusConnex in Orlando this February, about 30 women in the student housing industry gathered. Many were colleagues, coworkers and even competitors, vying for the growing share o…
We all know Affordable Housing Compliance is complicated, often confusing and potentially very costly when properties are out of compliance. Handling casualty losses in the affordable tax credit arena is a case in point.
Casualties get separa…
Real estate investing has been eternally plagued with a nagging problem: investment execs don’t have before them, in an easy-to-digest form, the essential data they need to ensure they’re making the best decisions. It’s typic…
After a long run of better-than-expected performance, the apartment industry seems to be on a precipice of difficulty.
RealPage CEO Dana Jones during this week’s company RealWorld “The Pursuit of Excellence” users conf…
It’s hard not to avoid the deluge of climate change-induced news headlines about catastrophic activity such as hurricanes, floods and droughts. But perhaps more newsworthy, according to a panel of apartment industry professionals, is wha…
The American dream is now available for rent. Renters want the lock-and-leave lifestyle and maintenance on demand and are finding it in build-to-rent single-family homes communities.
Investors are flocking into markets and creating this lifes…
Periods of extreme optimism and those mired in a rising-inflation environment are circumstances the multifamily housing industry has dealt with before.
But rare is today’s mood, according to RealPage’s Jay Parsons, “I’…
Multifamily has become an increasingly diversified sector, with short-term rentals (STRs) being the “next big thing.” Also known as “home sharing,” STRs aren’t really new — they’ve actually been happen…
The filing dates to report building energy benchmarking data to the Energy Commission run from April 1 through July 1, and states are expecting building owners to do it through the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Energy Star Por…
Benchmarking utilities has become a way of life in multifamily.
Not long ago, the EPA introduced its Portfolio Manager, a repository for a commercial property’s utility consumption data for benchmarking. By 2014, the arduous task of es…