News

Join us on the road at these senior living events (2026)

Don’t miss these senior living industry events packed with networking opportunities. Team Yardi will be there. Come meet us!

02 / 02 / 26

Outreach Live 2025: Multifamily insights & AI innovations

Explore the top takeaways from Outreach Live 2025, including AI advances, smarter marketing strategies and tools that help multifamily operators streamline leasing and elevate the renter experience.

12 / 18 / 25

REIT report: New podcast spotlights energy reporting practices

Randy Moss, industry principal for Yardi Energy, provided insight into sustainability reporting issues facing REITs and commercial real estate (CRE) in a recent podcast sponsored by Nareit.

11 / 25 / 25

Energy

YASC Multifamily Spotlight: What’s new & why it matters

The YASC Multifamily Spotlight showcased Yardi’s latest innovations in AI, leasing and resident engagement, which help clients simplify operations and improve renter satisfaction.

11 / 05 / 25

Technology

Percentage Rent Model

For the last year, CRE professionals have closely watched the overall economy and the commercial real estate market to monitor the effects of the pandemic. We’ve discussed the value of knowing your tenant, how the industrial market has largely remained strong and how to handle rent concessions and deferrals. One concept that has flown under […]

05 / 19 / 21

Clean is the New Green

Back in 1946, we were on to something. The American Standards Association, now the American National Standards Institute, issued guidelines for healthy buildings. Among the standards stood a novel concept: occupied rooms should have access to fresh air. It seems like common sense now, but it’s not common practice today. That standard was all but […]

05 / 17 / 21

National Outlook

A new webinar outlined the continued success of the industrial real estate sector and ever-evolving picture for the office market. The May 13 presentation was hosted by Yardi Matrix and CommercialEdge. Insightful detail from the presentation is available on both CRE market segments as well as regional breakdowns. Find the full recording at yardimatrix.com Strong […]

05 / 14 / 21

Matrix

Pandemic Evolution

Along with virtually every other business operation, corporate communications underwent profound change during the pandemic. The challenges gave leaders “a compelling reason to engage and strengthen overall connections with employees,” creating “a chance to rebuild organizational health, productivity, and talent retention,” a trio of researchers from management consulting McKinsey observed in June 2020. Several corporate communications […]

05 / 10 / 21

Apartment Investment

Jeff Adler, vice president of Yardi Matrix, was recently featured as a guest panelist on an NMHC virtual forum. The April 20 focused on apartment investment, trends and economic factors affecting the industry. Adler appeared alongside Jim Costello, senior vice president at Real Capital Analytics, and Suzanne Mulvee, senior vice president of research and strategy […]

05 / 07 / 21

Matrix

Market Insights

Last year was a tough one for commercial real estate in Singapore and Malaysia. But with record-breaking transaction volumes rounding out 2020 and Covid-19 vaccines rolling out at speed, there’s hope on the horizon. Yardi recently brought together some of the region’s brightest economic brains to unpack the data and unearth the trends. Here are […]

04 / 30 / 21

Global

ASHA celebrates 30 years of senior living advocacy in 2021

ASHA Marks 30 Years

It’s an honor to celebrate years of service in senior living, especially for a trusted industry leader like the American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA). As of April 2021, ASHA celebrated 30 years of positively impacting the senior living sector — commemorating various achievements from their three-decade journey. Formed in 1991, the association has provided […]

04 / 29 / 21

YASC Makes a Virtual Return

The Yardi Advanced Solutions Conference, which began as two annual events in the U.S. and expanded to encompass six events on four continents, will soon continue its two-decade tradition of helping clients maximize the value of their Yardi software. ”The reason I enjoy YASC is to see new product developments and to understand how other […]

04 / 28 / 21

Global

Is Air Travel

The increased distribution of COVID-19 vaccines offers hope that commercial air travel can rebound from a year that saw airline revenues fall by 60% from the previous year. The 1.36 million passengers who passed through U.S. airport security checkpoints on March 12 represented the highest volume since the 1.5 million recorded on March 15, 2020, […]

04 / 27 / 21

Brightview Shines

Brightview Senior Living, operator of communities in eight Eastern U.S. states, has won accolades over the years from workplace culture authority Great Place to Work® and Fortune magazine for being among the country’s best workplaces for women and for aging services. In April, the Baltimore-based Yardi client claimed yet another honor: a place on the […]

04 / 26 / 21

Shine On

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have honored ENERGY STAR® partners from 39 states for outstanding leadership in reducing energy bills and tackling climate change. This year, Yardi has received the highest honor — the 2021 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award. For the third […]

04 / 13 / 21

Energy

Leaders’ Vision

Senior Housing News polled several industry leaders for their thoughts on what’s ahead for their organizations and the industry in 2021. Excerpts follow. Solera’s Kaplan: Vaccination tops the list Adam Kaplan, CEO of Solera Senior Living, ranks successful vaccine planning and implementation as the Denver-area community owner and operator’s No. 1 priority. “I’m excited for […]

04 / 11 / 21

Assisted Evolution

Assisted living facilities, which fill a need for seniors who don’t need nursing homes but can’t live independently, are a mainstay of senior care. The American Health Care Assn./National Center for Assisted Living counts nearly 1 million licensed beds in about 28,900 communities in the U.S. But even as assisted living holds stature as the fastest […]

04 / 09 / 21

Renters’ Changing Preferences

More than a year has passed since we first issued a survey to understand renters’ responses to the pandemic. A new survey reveals surprising ways that renters’ preferences have changed, and which preferences remain the same. What renters wanted The March 2020 renter survey issued by RentCafe.com gave analysts an understanding of renters’ expectations and […]

04 / 08 / 21

Tenant Experience

“Buildings are the next computing platform.” That’s how Chase Garbarino, CEO of HqO, describes the importance of software and building intelligence as companies seek a safe return to the workplace. Just as books shifted to tablets, music switched from CDs to Pandora and Spotify and taxi service switched to Uber, buildings have transformed from manual […]

04 / 05 / 21