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Your complete guide to the Yardi Forum

Everything you need to know about the Yardi Forum, a premier technology training event designed specifically for Yardi affordable housing and PHA users.

02 / 12 / 26

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

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

HUD Updates

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently received a $1.7 billion dollar Continuum of Care grant. Funds will provide assessment programs, street outreach, housing, job training, mental and physical health care, substance abuse counseling, and child care for formerly homeless persons. This year’s allotment reflects a 5% cut in funding, continuing a trend […]

01 / 06 / 14

Affordable housing

Cash from the Crowd

The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed rules that would permit small companies to seek funding from the general public. Crowdfunding has grown in popularity among artists and inventors. Companies that create home security gadgets, tiny appliances for micro-apartments and sustainable furniture have all received public funding via platforms like Kickstarter. If the proposed rules […]

01 / 03 / 14

Smarter Snacks

Food: celebration, unity, comfort. The cultural significance of a meal, or even a snack, goes beyond our bodies’ need for nourishment. Unfortunately, that’s the problem. Deciding what foods to stock in the break room or how to create menus for a conference can be a daunting task. Organizers must decide between foods that nourish the […]

12 / 31 / 13

Yardi Year in Review: Part Two

Welcome back. Over the course of 2013, we featured many exciting milestones for Yardi here on The Balance Sheet. It was a year of strong growth for many of our clients, and Yardi’s products evolved to help support their goals and plans in the world of real estate. Here’s a look at some of the […]

12 / 27 / 13

Clydesdales

Yardi Year in Review: Part One

Over the course of 2013, we featured many exciting milestones for Yardi here on The Balance Sheet. It was a year of strong growth for many of our clients, and Yardi’s products evolved to help support their goals and plans in the world of real estate. Here’s a look at some of the stories we […]

12 / 26 / 13

Data Driven

When Ron Brock began forming the business idea that would ultimately become Pierce-Eislen, a data research firm focused on the commercial apartment industry, online databases and the Internet were still in the incubation stages. Fast forward a couple of decades, and Brock’s company, Pierce-Eislen (acquired in 2013 by Yardi Systems) is the leading provider of […]

12 / 19 / 13

500 Strong

Over the past five months, more than 500 Yardi Voyager® clients—with the number growing daily—have adopted the browser-agnostic, mobile-enabled Yardi Voyager® 7S, the latest, most advanced version of Yardi’s core software-as-a-service (SaaS) real estate management platform. Yardi Voyager 7S is compatible with all major Internet browsers, offering real estate investment and property management clients access […]

12 / 18 / 13

Easy Yardi Training

Multifamily real estate development and management firm Simpson Housing LLLP® has streamlined its employee training by making Yardi eLearning™ the gateway to hundreds of company-sponsored online training classes. Simpson Housing uses Yardi eLearning to deliver webinars, in-person classes and on-demand self-study courses on various aspects of property management directly to employees. “We present about 400 […]

12 / 13 / 13

Mind Reading

A growing number of corporate tenants today are thinking of their real estate as more than just a place to house their employees. Instead, they’re treating it like an asset. That is borne out in a recent study of office occupiers by CoreNet Global. In all, 68 percent of respondents reported having a workplace strategy […]

12 / 06 / 13

Business Travel

As busy as business travel might feel, it can actually be a sedentary lifestyle. After hours of sitting on a plane and munching airport food snacks, we shuffle into a cab. Then we chug coffee while sitting in meetings for hours. To wrap up the day, we go out to restaurants for dinner and cocktails […]

12 / 05 / 13

Atlanta BeltLine

The Atlanta BeltLine’s Westside Trail is slated to finish two to three years earlier than expected, even with a few delays due to a rainy summer this year. The good news comes after the project received a recent wave of grants. The US Department of Transportation awarded an $18 million grant in early September. Called Tiger […]

12 / 04 / 13

Executive of the Year

Jonathan Gray’s continued fast pace of acquisitions won him top honors in this year’s CPE Executive of the Year Awards. The Blackstone Group global head of real estate was selected as Executive of the Year for the third consecutive year. He was also named the 2013 Investor of the Year. Now in its 17th year, […]

12 / 03 / 13

The Modern Workplace

With the rapid development of the green building movement and the integration of tech solutions into all sectors of real estate, we are currently witnessing the rebirth of the modern workplace. White walls and blunt office spaces have been replaced with nurturing environments focused on sustainability, livability and cost-efficiency. Architects, designers and developers are working […]

11 / 27 / 13

Changing Skylines

The boom in high-rise construction signals a new era of success in multi-family housing. Critics, however, believe that the influx of luxury towers could lead to cities plagued by costly giants. The rise in land prices serves as a catalyst in the vertical construction trend. Reports by Zelman and Associates and The Federal Reserve Bank […]

11 / 26 / 13

Amenity Arms Race

Los Angeles—Gen Y likes rooftop pools, multimedia-equipped fitness suites, concierge package service and the ability to order housekeeping for their apartment. They have dogs, get lots of UPS deliveries but almost no mail, like walking places (but also need to charge their electric vehicles), and want the lobby of their apartment community it look like […]

11 / 21 / 13

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