Category: News

Robert Teel

Yardi Leadership Series

Many commercial property managers seek to abbreviate the leasing process, expedite reporting, and improve overall efficiency and accuracy. Unfortunately, it is a struggle to compile and interpret data from multiple software programs within their organizations. Robert Teel, Senior VP G&A at Yardi, and his team are redefining the way that user groups interact through software. […]

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Instant Housing Crisis

Helping Fort McMurray Fire Evacuees

On May 1, 2016, a fast-moving wildfire began near Fort McMurray in northeast Alberta, Canada. The fire forced the largest evacuation in Alberta’s history and destroyed more than 2,000 homes, while 90,000 people fled the flames. Evacuees headed south in a scene reminiscent of an apocalypse movie. They made it away safely, but waiting at […]

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Neighborhood Match

Finding a perfect fit

With so many options to choose from, it can be hard for renters to know when they have found the perfect neighborhood to call home. A new portal makes relocation a bit easier by combining ILS, reviews, and neighborhood matching services. Place I Live Portal offers neighborhood matching for those seeking rentals or home ownership […]

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Workspace Reimagined

The WeWork Model

As part of their effort to change the typical office space, the founders of WeWork are using a property management hybrid that owes more to start-ups than real estate agencies.

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Renewable City

Clean Energy for San Diego

As part of its Climate Action Plan, the city of San Diego plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions and shift to 100% renewable energy sources by 2035.

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Affordable Refi

Revised federal credit terms

Low vacancies and high rents have positioned the market in your favor. Since the fourth quarter of 2009, apartment values have increased by more than 120 percent. If you are stuck in recession-time financing, make these market improvements work for you by refinancing your affordable property. As a result of revised terms, affordable, B-, and […]

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Tiny, Tiny House

Modern and Stackable

Economic crises and housing shortages have inspired many architects and engineers. Their desire to solve modern housing dilemmas has resulted in several affordable, efficient, and accessible units that change the way that we see multifamily housing. Below are two recent example of space-savvy and cost-effective housing. They could promote big changes in the multifamily marketplace. […]

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Multifamily Investment

Outlook remains positive

This week, Yardi’s Jeff Adler (Vice President of Matrix) and Jack Kern (Director of Research/Publisher of MHN, CPE) presented a biannual webinar on the health and welfare of the U.S. multifamily investment sector. In an hour-long presentation, Adler and Kern summarized the various forces that impact investment, including job growth, oil prices, rent growth and […]

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SubTropolis

Technology goes underground

SubTropolis is the “World’s Largest Underground Business Complex,” developed by Kansas City Chiefs owner and real estate developer Lamar Hunt. The excavated mine, located in Kansas City, Mo., is approximately the size of 140 football fields. The underground city, 160 feet beneath the earth, was created through the mining of a 270-million-year-old limestone deposit which […]

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Retirement Benefits

Good for your health

A new Australian study reveals this recent generation of retirees are becoming healthier and more active once they transition out of the workforce.

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Scene-iors on Stage

Acting program touches lives

Over the years, Tuesdays with Matthew has recreated iconic scenes from famous Hollywood films, all with the help of his troop of senior thespians.

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Bridging Generations

Senior and Millennial Housing

Homes That Fit invites Finnish millennials to cohabitate with Helsinki senior citizens as part of a pilot program run by City of Helsinki's Youth Department

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AIM Insights

2016 Marketing Conference

Huntington Beach, Calif. — With the multifamily industry still enjoying rising rents and high occupancy rates in most markets, it’s no wonder this year’s Apartment Internet Marketing Conference had an air of successful complacency, as most apartment marketers have been enjoying smooth sailing lately. That doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement, and several hundred industry insiders […]

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Myth Busting

MultiGen Workspaces

Yardi client Avison Young recently released “Five generations: Is the need for new workplace structures myth or reality?” The white paper explores the perceived need to overhaul workplace layouts in order to accommodate multi-generational employees. Generations have replaced one another in the workplace since, well, the dawn of the workplace. Yet the introduction of Millennials […]

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X-Celent Marketing

Real Estate Meets Hollywood

Coldwell Banker Real Estate, a U.S. real estate franchise with offices in over 43 countries, teamed up with 20th Century Fox, and managed to pull of one of the most genuine marketing campaigns of 2016. The real estate giant listed the X-Mansion, a fictional mansion featured in the upcoming summer movie, X-Men: Apocalypse. While this […]

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