Greystar’s Second Annual Desert Open raised over $100,000 to benefit the Arizona Chapter of the PTSD Foundation of America. The charity event recently took place at the Legacy Golf Resort in Phoenix. Greystar team members, clients and local…
Property management professionals agree that operating a property can expose both the owner and the managing agent to significant risk. All risks cannot be eliminated, but a step can be taken regarding supplier partners.Ensuring that these partners…
During the past 10 years, the apartment industry has consistently looked for ways to adapt new technologies to support their various teams, with ultimately the goal of creating an exceptional resident experience.Because of this commitment to…
Apartment communities are increasing the number of outdoor items within their amenity packages. Outdoor covered living rooms with fireplaces and outdoor TVs, pocket parks geared towards outdoor activity, water features, bocce ball courts, corn hole…
Entrepreneurs are putting a new spin on the short-term-stay model: They want to rent your apartments and boost your lease-up.Like many apartment firms, Houston-based Camden attempts to keep tabs on innovations that could affect the company and the…
Commercial real estate investors, developers and analysts are putting climate forecasting on the map.When commercial real estate companies started looking at sustainability more than a decade ago, they focused on disclosing and repointing, which…
In the business world, there’s a stigma about investing based on an ESG model: environmental, social and governance. Some call the companies in that group too soft. Others say it’s a losing proposition because it lacks dividends.However, more and…
AMLI Residential’s Vice President-Sustainability spoke recently about climate risk assessments.Has AMLI performed these assessments?AMLI includes some resilience scope as part of our property conditions assessment and we are exploring ways to expand…
AvalonBay Communities has committed to setting science-based emissions reduction targets to be approved by the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi). AvalonBay joins the growing group of leading companies that are setting emissions reduction…