Multifamily

Nearly a month into Q2, is your 2024 all you wanted and more? Economists and industry experts shared their predictions at the end of last year, but now Construction Executive checks in with Dan Rosenberg, a construction and real-estate lawyer with Much Shelist P.C., about his exp...

A former steel fabrication and manufacturing plant might not be the most obvious candidate for an adaptive-reuse project. But Grubb Ventures, which purchased the Peden Steel facility in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 2017 following its previous redevelopment of Dock 1053 just across...

After more than 30 years in the construction business, jobsites can start to run together. But John Breistol, who has worked on major projects such as the development of the Fontainebleau II Hotel and Condominium Resort and the renovation of the Miami Beach Convention Center, sti...

The 1970s were not a golden age of energy efficiency. While public awareness of environmental issues grew throughout the decade—Earth Day and the Environmental Protection Agency debuted in 1970, Woodsy “Give a Hoot, Don’t Pollute” Owl in 1971, the United Nations Environment Progr...

RentCafe has ranked the most competitive apartment markets of 2022 so far (per Yardi proprietary data), and it turns out that today’s rental market is just as hot as the housing market was in summer 2020. As of June, an average of 14 renters compete for an available apartment. R...

Designing and developing residential spaces today means understanding how the pandemic experience has altered the way we live and the expectations we now have for our homes. To gain a better understanding of emerging attitudes toward residential rental spaces, the National Multif...

It takes a long list of people and organizations to make a city thrive—from business owners and nonprofits, to lawmakers and individual community members. Another key player in this equation is developers: The people and companies that build the residential, office and retail sp...

An influx of renters over the past decade has shaped U.S. suburbs, says a recent RENTCafé study. In the top 10 suburbs with heightened changes in renter share, they each saw increases by 55% or more. For example, Maple Heights, Ohio, which placed first on the list, had a 25% rent...

The 2021 apartment construction market is going strong, despite the past year’s setbacks. Per a report from RentCafé, developers are putting 334,000 new apartments on the market this year, amounting to just a 2.5% drop from 2020. The steady stream of real estate has resulted in a...

Off-site construction is becoming more popular, especially as a way to reduce construction costs, time and the use of natural resources. Powering critical systems and appliances with an affordable, reliable energy source—like propane—can help maximize efficiency, cost savings, an...