Off-Campus Student Housing Goes Large

Student-housing investors have a lot to be happy about nowadays.   Off-campus student housing is experiencing very strong leasing numbers for the coming fall semester. A boost in demand and a lack of supply at certain universities are driving this trend, besting...

Apartment Momentum Not Slowing Up

The multifamily bubble isn’t bursting yet, and if savvy investors are in the know, it doesn’t look like it will any time soon. Lone Star Funds, a private-equity group, has agreed to acquire REIT Home Properties Inc. for about $7.6 billion.  It is apparently the...

Multifamily Continues Dominance

Well, it doesn’t look as though commercial real estate’s multifamily sector has overheated yet. Second-quarter apartment-leasing fundamentals were the strongest in more than a decade, according to research firm Axiometrics, and that’s on top of already outperforming...