Multifamily Must Innovate, Adapt Now to Anticipate Resident Connectivity Demands
“Traditional wired and wireless networks are becoming faster and more reliable with each new standard on the market,” says Pavlov Media CEO Cory Douglas. “We’re seeing multifamily consumers extend...
View ArticleInvestments from Life Insurance Companies May Throw a Lifeline to Multifamily...
No one in the multifamily sector needs a lecture on the difficulty of financing projects and deals these days. But, when there are challenges in the market, attention to detail and alternative...
View ArticleDiverse Demand, Tight Supply Elevate Colorado Springs’ Industrial Market
Industrial activity runs a wide gamut in Colorado Springs. Situated on the busy I-25 corridor, the Centennial State’s second-largest city is a key distribution point to Northern Colorado and...
View ArticleMultifamily Internet Connectivity: Planning for the Future
Internet connectivity is the digital equivalent of a foundation for any multifamily property. Residents want access for communications, entertainment, business and personal needs. Property operators...
View ArticleFollowing Pandemic-Fueled Run-Up in Acquisition Prices, Where Is Self-Storage...
Self-storage has had an amazing run since just before the pandemic. Cap rates started near 6 percent, with buildings starting at $150 per square foot. Then came the flood of pandemic capital pushing...
View ArticleSite Design Science: How Understanding Operations Draws Pharmaceutical...
Pharmaceutical companies have captured the interest of many developers and with good reason. Softening demand for traditional office space has planners looking for alternative uses to fill out business...
View ArticleHow to Maximize Agency Financing for Affordable Housing
There are a variety of ways to build affordable housing, but implementing these strategies has become an increasingly difficult proposition in 2023. Affordable housing projects seem to face challenges...
View ArticleHow One Lender Is Finding High-Tech Solutions to Complicated Application...
Today’s accelerating technology transformation is altering how the commercial real estate industry executes transactions and manages assets. “The amount of information that a multifamily borrower...
View ArticleSoutheast Single-Family Rental Market Remains Resilient
Families searching for more space, in part as remote work options retain their hold on the workplace landscape, plus strong migration into the Southeast have helped fuel a robust single-family rental...
View ArticleLee & Associates: Slowing Absorption, Rent Growth Put Brakes on New...
Slower absorption and rent growth plagued industrial, office and multifamily asset classes across the United States in the third quarter, as outlined in Lee & Associates’ 2023 Q3 North America...
View ArticleMultifamily Operators Adopt Property-Wide Internet Access as New Standard...
Multifamily residents want to take their internet connections with them beyond their unit’s four walls and throughout the complex. The National Multifamily Housing Council has found for years that 90...
View ArticleIt’s Not Déjà Vu: Loan Workouts Return
Following the financial markets crash 15 years ago, banks and other lenders began working with commercial real estate (CRE) borrowers who had run into trouble. Solutions included loan extensions, loan...
View ArticleHow to Clear Affordable Housing’s Construction Financing Hurdle
Developers are finding it tougher than ever to finance affordable housing. And often, the biggest hurdle for the sector’s borrowers involves construction — either obtaining that initial loan at a...
View ArticleIs a Rebound in the Cards for Investment Sales Anytime Soon?
Would-be commercial real estate investors and sellers for the last several months have been waiting for a sign that the Federal Reserve has tamed inflation, therefore giving the central bank reason to...
View ArticleCapital Markets Warm to C-PACE Financing Amid Growing Stress
The spike in interest rates and the consequent disruption throughout real estate capital markets over the last 18 months is generating newfound interest in commercial property assessed clean energy...
View ArticleAdaptive Reuse Extends to Higher Education Real Estate Amid Online Learning...
The term “adaptive reuse” in real estate circles typically conjures images of repurposing old, obsolete commercial buildings. Meanwhile, academic buildings, administrative offices and other properties...
View ArticleAdaptive Reuse Developers Repurpose Antiquated Real Estate to Benefit...
Commercial property conversions can offer significant advantages over conventional ground-up real estate developments. Conversions can provide a head start on construction with established...
View ArticleManaged IT Services Simplify Multifamily Operations
The multifamily industry has its hands full: finance in adverse economic conditions, rapidly rising operation costs, as well as the challenge of attracting and keeping quality tenants as the biggest...
View ArticleRetail Development Programs Favor Suburbs, Shifting Shopper Habits
With high operating costs eroding profitability at many urban stores, major retailers are concentrating development and store renovations in suburban locations with layouts geared to the latest...
View ArticlePrevious Year’s Challenges Shape 2024 Outlook for Cap Rates, Investment...
If NAI Global president and CEO Jay Olshonsky had to use one word to sum up the 2023 commercial real estate market, it would be “inactive.” The interest rate-fueled bid-ask spread stifled investment...
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