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The top brass at San Francisco real estate investment trust BRE Properties flies down to San Diego for a crash course in Mexican culture. United Dominion Reality Trust, a Denver-based REIT, hires a senior executive...

"It's hard to find good people. They just don't walk in off the street everyday." Rita Grazda, senior director of human resources at Alexandria, Virginia-based Avalon Bay Communities, captured the sentiment of her peers...

HUD has always been important to the multifamily industry. The question with this HUD secretary is, is multifamily important to HUD? Amidst the buzz of home-ownership landmarks and mandates, the President's proposed budget cuts targeted...

Prudent employers have trained managers and employees on preventing unlawful discrimination and harassment in the workplace for years. Such training helps employers avoid conflicts that result in litigation and can also help defend against...

Few cities have the power to evoke lifestyle images the way Hollywood does. Or did. Until recently the city of cinematic legend was one of the most undesirable addresses in all of Los Angeles. With record high crime rates...

The discovery of accounting frauds at the nation's two largest GSEs (Government Sponsored Enterprises), Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae by regulatory agencies and the SEC has lead to shakeups at both institutions, calls for...

This past April the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), a consortium of civil rights groups, attacked the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) for what it called...

Jackson has extensive housing, finance and management experience having directed public housing authorities in St. Louis, Washington, DC and Dallas. Jackson also served as chairman of two redevelopment agencies in Washington, DC and St....

It's a truism that we live in a networked age: computers connected to each other; phone systems connected to computers; customer data linked to inventory; inventory linked to analytic tools. We have the ability...

Green building advocates and environmental scientists have brought a new level of awareness to the impact that buildings -- most notably through energy use -- have on the environment. It probably doesn't take a...

The days of high vacancy rates and the industry's long battle with concessionitis, may soon be a distant memory say experts from leading apartment firms, the National Multi Housing Council, the National Association of...

Today's call center is the interactive communication channel between customer and organization in the multifamily industry. It is the forum that drives sales, leases and customer care opportunities. Businesses are learning that repeatedly touching...

It's one thing to establish a company that builds a reputation for innovation, quality and service. To achieve this in an intensely competitive field serving specialized needs is quite another accomplishment. In less than five...

AP: What's you background? And how did you get to manage the country's first "green" apartment high-rise, the Solaire? Michael: My background is mechanical engineering. In property management, I have managed different types of buildings,...

In Colorado, RealPage CEO Steve Winn shows clients new tools for reaching higher levels of performance. The greatest athletes in the world all strive for one thing: peak performance. To accomplish this, they employ the...