Commercial Real Estate Multifamily News 
Modest Recovery Continues, According to Reis
“Fairly unspectacular” seems to be the theme behind the numbers in the first quarter reports from Reis. ...
Student Housing REITs Continue Development Focus
Student Housing REITs are the most active developers in the commercial property sector today. ...
Brooklyn Multifamily Development Brings Passive House Certification to U.S.
Haus96 in Brooklyn will be the first multifamily building to meet the requirements of the Passive House Institute....
Bailey Properties, Summit Housing to Form BSR Trust Through $1B Merger
The Trust will operate 111 communities totaling 18,700 apartment units....
Archstone Raises $350M for Acquisition Fund
Archstone closed a new fund aimed at acquiring apartment communities....
Manufactured Housing REITs Come Off the Sidelines
Manufactured housing REITs are aggressively seeking to expand their portfolios. ...
Kennedy Wilson Sells Multifamily Properties in San Jose and Portland for $154 Million
International real estate investment and services firm Kennedy Wilson sold two of its West Coast multifamily properties for a total of $154 million. ...
A Coming Deluge of Apartment Construction
There are indications that anywhere from 150,000 to 200,000 units under construction in the top 79 markets that Reis tracks, with approximate completion dates from late 2012 to 2013. That is more than triple the rate of inventory growth in 2011....
PwC Survey Shows Unevenness Across Markets
A first quarter PwC survey shows markets are recovering, but there remains unevenness across markets and property types....
Reis: Apartment Vacancies Drop Below 5 percent
The multifamily sector continued its torrid run as vacancy rates fell by 30 basis points in the first quarter down to 4.9 percent....
American Cities are Revitalizing Their Downtowns and Recreating Their Profiles
The movement to reinvigorate Main Street is back. ...
New York City’s Relentless Reassessments Raise Revenue—and Eyebrows
In its 2012-2013 tax roll assessment, New York City has once again reported major increases in property values. Bucking the national trend toward flat or downward value changes, the city in January found that overall market value had grown to more than $876 billion, up by more than $31 billion from last year’s record $845.4 billion....
JLL Originates $161M Financing for Two D.C. Multifamily Properties
Jones Lang LaSalle’s Capital Markets secured more than $160 million in refinancing of existing debt for two Washington, D.C.-area properties....
Bascom Group Buys Hawaii Apartment Community for $73.5M
The acquisition is the largest in the Hawaii market since 2007....
Savanna and Pantzer Properties Partner to Recapitalize Atlantic Point Multifamily
Savanna, a New York-based real estate private equity and asset management firm, has completed an investment to own and recapitalize Atlantic Point, a 795-unit, class-A garden apartment and townhouse complex on Long Island. ...
Auction.com Sells $424M in Multifamily Assets
Auction.com sold 64 multifamily assets for $424 million in a three-day auction....
$400M Refinancing For Portfolio Closed by HFF
HFF has arranged a $400 million refinancing for a five-property, 2,600-unit multihousing portfolio located in Washington and Hoboken....
Investors Are Coming to New York in Droves, But the City Favors Its Own
Developers Are Increasingly Pursuing Adaptive Reuse Opportunities
There are many reasons why developers are attracted to adaptive reuse today. There is an increased demand from cities, residents and tenants for renewed urban cores. Americans are regaining a taste for urban living and moving from suburbs back to redeveloped cities....
Can Commercial Real Estate Investors Help Revive Single-Family Housing?
A new FHFA pilot program could pave the way for commercial real estate investors to buy single-family housing in bulk....
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