The Lease-Up

COO Melanie Gersper shares Asia Capital Real Estate’s strategy to remain fair, firm and consistent in difficult circumstances. In the second episode of our "Mission Success: Women in Multifamily" podcast series, she talks about how to work with residents and not against them as a property manager. Toward the end of the conversation with Senior Associate Editor Laura Calugar, she also reveals the best ways to stay ahead of the management game in 2021.

In our first episode of the "Multifamily's Top Marketers" series, the former White House appointee builds off years in the affordable housing sector to give practical steps on how to tailor your property’s experience to its audience.

In this first episode of our “Mission Success: Women in Multifamily” podcast series, Realty ONE Group Chief Marketing Office Cory Vasquez talks about the top five real estate lessons she’s learned throughout her extensive career in marketing and communication. In a fun and skillful way, she discloses some of her secrets and provides tips for an effective communication strategy with residents and prospects. Additionally, Vasquez talks about her mentors and sources of inspiration.

How was 2020 for the multifamily industry? Fragmented, according to Paula Munger, the expert leading the National Apartment Association’s research efforts. In the last podcast of the year, Munger and Multi-Housing News Senior Associate Editor Laura Calugar discuss key takeaways from this atypical year and take a look at what 2021 might look like.

National Multifamily Housing Council President Doug Bibby, who has led the influential industry organization for the last two decades, looks back on the unprecedented events of 2020 and how they impacted the multifamily sector. In conversation with MHN Senior Associate Editor Holly Dutton, Bibby talks about why he decided to postpone his planned exit from the organization this year, the latest efforts in the push for federal rent relief, where things stand with rent collections and the worries over growing renter debt, and why he’s optimistic about multifamily’s future.

A hotly contested ballot measure on rent control in California will be decided in the general election Nov. 3, and it has major implications for the rental housing industry. MHN's Holly Dutton speaks with Tom Bannon, CEO of the California Apartment Association, about what exactly Prop. 21 entails, how previous legislation led to its creation, and what it’s passage could mean for the industry. 

Although the housing market is a bright spot in the economy, owners and operators worry about what’s next. In our new podcast, NAA’s Paula Munger shares the findings of the association’s latest surveys.

In this episode of our quarterly series, NAA's Paula Munger reveals the association’s most recent findings about the impact of the coronavirus crisis on its members’ portfolios.

In a recent study, the NAA examined the impact of a 7 percent annual cap on apartment rents in Chicago, Denver, Seattle and Portland by 2030. Tune in for the eyebrow-raising results.

Merchants Capital President Mike Dury discusses mortgage lending activities for the affordable housing market. Tune in to hear his take on what's ahead.