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Optima Verdana, in Wilmette, Illinois
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Which Amenities Pay Off in Today’s Market?

by Channing Hamilton

Amenities are the personality of a multifamily property. They proclaim a community’s individuality and lure tenants with promises of a fun, relaxing or convenient lifestyle. What counts as a multifamily amenity today? If most renters and homeowners are accustomed to robust Wi-Fi or controlling their heating and air conditioning through their phones, is a smart thermostat or bulk internet something to advertise as an “extra,” or are these features a given nowadays, like a fridge or a microwave? “Want versus need is a spectrum when it comes to multifamily amenities,” …

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How Philadelphia is Leveraging Vacant Land to Solve Affordable Housing Shortage

by Channing Hamilton

Last year, developers in Philadelphia built hundreds of new row houses on vacant, city-owned lots. The houses would sell to new homeowners at affordable prices. Many housing advocates say it’s not nearly enough. While new, luxury apartments charge record-high rents in neighborhoods around Center City, other streets in Philadelphia are still lined with vacant lots strewn with trash. As rents rise across the city, Philadelphia’s new mayor, Cherelle Parker, has promised to produce 30,000 new units of affordable housing over four years. That’s more than 8,000 units of housing per …

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Multifamily TheGuarantors Eben MacNeille
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Renter Profiles Are Changing – How Multifamily Operators Can Minimize the Risks of Rent Default and More

by Sarah Daniels

Despite the persistent housing shortage, landlords are having a more difficult time qualifying potential residents, especially non-traditional applicants who don’t check the usual boxes for credit and employment history. Renters are also facing bigger hurdles for income, credit and up-front deposits. “It has become increasingly expensive and challenging to rent an apartment in the United States,” says Eben MacNeille, senior director of sales at TheGuarantors. The New York-based financial technology company serves the multifamily industry by providing lease guarantees, security deposit replacements and renters insurance and compliance solutions. Today’s renter …

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Daniel Berlind, CEO, Snappt
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How Multifamily Owners Can Guard Against Renter Fraud

by Channing Hamilton

Scammers lurk in the background of virtually every industry, and the multifamily sector is no exception. Some renters will leap at the chance to exploit loopholes in the system and take advantage of unprepared landlords. “As a baseline definition, we classify rent fraud as any act of intentional deception by a renter to deceive the property owners to gain financial or personal benefit,” says Josh Albrechtsen, senior vice president and general manager of front office solutions at RealPage. “Fraud is evolving constantly. This is not a one-and-done problem solve. The …

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Stella at Five Points in Huntsville, Alabama
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Huntsville is a City of Opportunity for Community Building

by Channing Hamilton

Huntsville is a land of opportunity for new projects. The “Rocket City” is the most aggressive market in the nation for apartment development, according to data from RealPage. The city claimed that title in 2022 and has maintained it ever since. Developers completed roughly 5,900 units in the first quarter of 2024, according to RealPage. This expanded supply by 15.9 percent. Another 9,895 units are currently under construction, with 6,900 of those apartments slated to deliver by the end of the first quarter of 2025. RealPage estimates the city will …

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Speakers at the build-to-rent panel at InterFace Carolinas Multifamily
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Build-to-Rent Residential Sector Remains in a Sweet Spot, Say InterFace Panelists

by Channing Hamilton

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Build-to-rent (BTR), or purpose-built neighborhoods of single-family rental homes, has been an emerging subsector of the multifamily continuum the past several years. The housing type fills a niche for renters as it offers more living space and privacy than typical apartments, but is more affordable and amenitized than for-sale homes. The BTR sector began its ascent during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic when a confluence of factors —the rise in work-from-home and hybrid work schedules, an increase in household formation of younger millennials, the desirability …

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Speakers on the design panel at the InterFace Houston Multifamily conference.
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InterFace Panel: When It Comes to Amenities in Today’s Multifamily Market, Sometimes Less Is More

by Channing Hamilton

HOUSTON — Within the world of multifamily development, the “amenities arms race” has become a well-documented trend over the past decade, a contest to curate and deliver the most appealing combination of entertainment and wellness features and activities to woo prospective renters. In many instances, this approach was successful, and developers succeeded in capturing the hearts and wallets of renters who sought an “everything under one roof” approach to renting. The fervent movement to deliver more extensive and impressive amenity packages also worked for much of the last decade because …

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The investment panel at InterFace Carolinas Multifamily 2024
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Investors Need to Capitalize on ‘Golden Window’ to Buy Below Replacement Cost, Say InterFace Panelists

by Channing Hamilton

The method to buy below replacement cost is a tried-and-true investment strategy among real estate investors that allows them to capitalize on short-term fluctuations in the market in order to lock in long-term value. Grant Russell, director of investments at AvalonBay Communities Inc., said that multifamily investors today are in a “golden window” because they can acquire a Class A property for less than what it costs to develop the same community from the ground-up, all things being held equal. “Deals are trading for higher than yesterday’s costs and below …

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The Perch PDX in Portland, Oregon
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Industry Says Biden’s Proposed Rent Cap Would Punish Tenants

by Channing Hamilton

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration has called on Congress to pass rent-control legislation that would affect more than 20 million rental homes across the country. Under the proposed rule, landlords with more than 50 units in their portfolios would forfeit federal tax breaks if they raise rents annually more than 5 percent on their existing units.  If passed, this rule would be in force beginning this year and would last through 2026. The plan would include an exception for new construction and for units currently undergoing substantial renovation or …

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Oxenfree at WeHo in Nashville, Tennessee
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Strong Tenant, Investor Demand Ensures Build-to-Rent Model Is Here to Stay

by Channing Hamilton

Empty nesters and millennials with children are increasingly drawn to new subdivisions of build-to-rent (BTR) houses for lifestyle and financial reasons. These professionally managed BTR homes come in many shapes and sizes.  For a growing family, a new three- or four-bedroom rental house might be the ideal fit. Renters who don’t need a lot of space, but who value private parking and a modest backyard, can move into a one- or two-bedroom cottage-style home.  These properties provide more living space and privacy than a typical apartment and at a more …

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