Tackling Fannie Mae’s PNA Changes

A few months ago Fannie Mae tweaked its Physical Needs Assessment (PNA) guidelines. GRS Group’s Bill Tryon wrote in this space at the beginning of the year when revisions were first announced by the GSE. Now that the changes in PNA standards have been implemented for...

Student Housing Gets Fancy

When many of a certain age think of student housing, communist-bloc-style cement buildings with gross cafeteria food, or dilapidated slumlord-owned houses often come to mind. Well, it’s certainly not that way any more, at least for some students attending college...

Student Housing Attracts Financing and Development

Student Housing may not have the amount of product or gather the attention collected by other commercial real estate sectors, but that doesn’t mean that investors aren’t interested in this hot market. Julie Sorensen, a business development director at GRS Group,...