On November 17th, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) awarded a record $7 billion in New Markets Tax Credit allocation to 120 community development entities throughout the country. Based on the conditions of the awards, it is anticipated that approximately $5 billion of allocation will be deployed to support businesses […]
U.S. rental apartment occupancy reached 96.5 percent in the third quarter of 2016, according MPF Research, the market intelligence division of rental housing technology firm RealPage, Inc. (NASDAQ: RP). Up from 96.2 percent a year ago, today’s occupancy reading is just shy of the all-time peak of 96.8 percent set in the tech boom period of 2000. Most […]
The inaugural Rental Ranking Report from All Property Management features insights into the attractiveness of real estate investment in 75 major U.S. metropolitan areas, over all four quarters of 2015. The higher a metropolitan area’s ranking, the better ROI for rental housing within it. The report includes a breakdown of regional performance trends and a look […]
In recent years, a series of broad economic and technological changes has dramatically shifted the competitive landscape for real estate companies and increased the speed of business. Multifamily executives are regularly asking themselves: Why do I feel bogged down with so many processes? Is my firm nimble enough? Am I paying too much for the management […]
By Scott Seegmiller I was co-founder of a Property Management company 25 years ago. We were leading edge back then, running 110 properties on a Single User DOS-based system. Our internet? Mail a 3.5-inch floppy disk to the corporate office. It worked, we developed processes and procedures surrounding the systems and we made it very […]
