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Toronto

North America’s Greenest City

Toronto shines as North America’s greenest city according to the Sustainable Cities Index, coming in at a respectable 12th place out of 50 cities. It is the only Canadian city to make the list. European and Asian cities continue to dominate the top rankings each year but Toronto is poised for greater gains. The Arcadis Sustainable […]

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Bettering Buckhead

A community in transformation

It’s never too late to improve livability. Buckhead, an affluent and well-developed Atlanta submarket, demonstrates that notable change can be made even in established areas. Green space and cultural engagement are key to the transitioning community’s success. Markets experiencing the strongest, most sustainable growth these days are those where residents can work, live, and play […]

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Pillar Properties

Pride and Passion

When you’re talking multifamily development in the Puget Sound region, the conversation ultimately begins and ends with Pillar Properties, which has approximately 1,200 multifamily units currently operating, plus another 250 that are actively under construction and another 375 scheduled to break ground in 2015. Under the leadership of its president Bill Pettit, Pillar Properties has […]

Marketing

Commercial Content

Colliers' Blog

Content marketing in the commercial real estate realm makes sense, from a PR perspective. Why not showcase the expertise of investment, development or brokerage leadership with smart writing about trends and business practices? For many companies, it’s a nice idea that might encounter many logistical hurdles a long the way. So a relatively new blog […]

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1,650 Clients Strong

Yardi Voyager 7S

Adoption of Yardi Voyager® 7S has reached more than 1,650 clients and reports of enhanced security, efficiency and cost benefits with Yardi’s most advanced property management and accounting software continue rolling in. “The mobility of Voyager 7S makes being out of the office a lot easier,” said Matt Evert, chief financial officer for Versa Development. […]

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A Screening Solution

Landmark Realty of San Francisco

There aren’t many parallels to be drawn between the rental markets of San Francisco, Ca. and Albuquerque, N.M. One is known as the home of Twitter, the other as the setting for Breaking Bad. Last month, average rent for a San Francisco one-bedroom was $3469. In ABQ, a comparable pad could be had for $878.* […]

People

Ken Romero

Yardi

Ken Romero, Programmer, Affordable Housing, spends much of his work day adding new features and fixes to Yardi’s Beacon product while chugging away at multiple cups of black coffee. Fellow programmers and those on his QA team describe him as humble. They learned through national media that he’s probably a genius as well; Romero was […]

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Yardi Senior CRM

Sales, Marketing, Mobility

Yardi announced today the release of its new Yardi Senior CRM product, an advanced customer relationship management solution built into the Yardi Voyager® Senior Housing platform and integrated with all the Yardi Senior Living Suite™ products. “We matched the capabilities of a traditional CRM system with the workflows unique to senior living, and we did […]

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Raising Fees

How to break the news

Increasing fees without losing tenants is all a matter of presentation. When the economy slumped, many businesses explored ways to cut costs and stay afloat. Some property management companies offered fees as low as 4 percent in exchange for basic services. Owners jumped on these contracts, using the low costs to attract renters to their […]

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HUD Funding

Relief in Sight

In positive news for the public housing realm, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has received $49.3 billion in gross discretionary funding. It’s a $4 billion increase over FY 2014. The resources will be allocated to rental assistance vouchers, assistance for homeless and at-risk families, community improvement, and additional training for the Public […]

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All-in-One Platform

Pinnacle Adds Yardi Products

Yardi announced today that Pinnacle has expanded its Yardi solution footprint, adding advanced ancillary services from the integrated Yardi suite of products to optimize its real estate marketing, leasing, financial and operational efforts with a single software platform. With an unwavering focus on exceeding expectations, Pinnacle sought a full business solution that would not only […]

People

Improving Efficiencies

Arcadia Management Group

Gary Shaw is the kind of real estate executive you want to go to a backyard BBQ with. He’s a self-deprecating family guy, who jokes that he was “suckered” into buying the Arizona-based commercial management company, Arcadia Management Group, that his mother, Peggy Burgess, founded when Gary and his brother were just kids. But he’s […]

Technology

Smarter Sleep

Tech for the bed

One third of our life is spent in bed. Sleep is vital to a healthy and relaxed life and the technology today comes to bring even more comfort in the bedroom. The latest is the invention of Italians Matteo Franceschetti and Massimo Andreasi Bassi, the Luna mattress cover. Luna is a smart device that will […]

Technology

Bitdefender BOX

Smart home security

As soon as the first smart home device launched, I’ve started wondering: who was going to put a leash on what we now call The Internet of Things. Surely all with an interest in this age of ultra-connectivity and smart devices have had at least one vision where all these things around us turned against […]

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Top 20 Cities

For Walkable Urbanism

By now, you’ve probably heard that pedestrian-friendly access is all the buzz among Millennials and hip, active empty nesters. Mortgages and car notes are falling out of favor as these two large portions of the population steer towards rentals in walkable cities such as Seattle, Portland, and New York. A new study shines light on […]

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