Toll Brothers began rolling out new developments again, most notably in the multifamily arena.
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Housing starts for multifamily units have risen sharply since 2009, according to the Census Bureau.
Multifamily accounts for more than half of new construction activity in Dallas and Honolulu.
Investors are becoming wary about multifamily companies despite the fact that rents and occupancies continue rising.
There are a great many multifamily dwellings, especially in San Jose, if not Palo Alto.
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"Multifamily is clearly the strongest form of commercial real estate today, " Mr. Zell said.
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Equity Residential owns stakes in 119, 000 apartments, making it the country's largest publicly traded multifamily landlord.
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These regions could easily tighten occupancy codes or zone against multifamily use, heaving wrenches at the program.
But in recent months, with the housing market improving, the U.S. multifamily sector has been underperforming other real-estate companies.
These funds offer liquid access to a diverse portfolio of multifamily housing, office, retail, health care, warehouse and industrial buildings.
"We tend to think of multifamily rental properties as driven by job growth, " says Steve Cordes, managing director at ING Clarion.
Perhaps, the increase in multifamily construction that began two years ago will begin to reverse that trend, but it will be close.
In the first quarter of 2012, starts of multifamily housing structures were up another 27%, while single-family starts were up only 16.7%.
Multifamily construction is running at about 200, 000 apartment completions per year, and cannot possibly meet this shift in demand at current prices.
Mr. Morgan, who lives next door to the yellow multifamily house where the incident occurred, recalls a lot of police activity at first.
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One of the key businesses of United Technologies is also in the area of climate control systems and services for multifamily, commercial and industrial facilities.
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Now multifamily dwellings are covered in addition to the single-family variety.
Morley touted floating-rate bank instruments, multifamily real estate or farm land.
Buried down in the FHFA plan to restructure the GSEs, from February, was a proposal to essentially unleash multifamily financing solely to the private sector.
The nascent housing market recovery can be thanked for much of it, with the number of new multifamily and single-family home building starts surging about 30% apiece in 2012.
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General contractors of multifamily projects increased hiring by 3%.
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The country's 54 largest metro markets should see about 150, 000 new units this year, followed by about 300, 000 more in 2014 and 2015, said Luis Mejia, CoStar Group's director of multifamily research.
Although supply of housing also is increasing in the U.K., industry watchers say the multifamily concept is set to catch on as young families rent cheap accommodations while saving to buy their first house.
Seaside Plaza, a multifamily residence, Father Capodana Blvd.
Construction of single-family homes fell by 5.5 percent to an annual rate of 829, 000 units, the lowest level since April 1991, while multifamily construction was up 4.4 percent to an annual rate of 332, 000 units.
Housing advocates have been alarmed by the rapid decline in the supply of affordable housing, the result of landlords scooping up low-income properties and converting them to luxury dwellings to capitalize on rising values for multifamily properties.
"We are moving into a new phase of the multifamily housing cycle, a more typical phase, characterized by higher levels of apartment supply and incrementally greater competition from for-sale housing, " David Stockert, chief executive of Post Properties Inc.
The network, called Gigabit Seattle ( www.gigabitseattle.com) includes three pieces: Fiber directly to the home and business in twelve demonstration neighborhoods, dedicated gigabit broadband wireless connections to multifamily housing and offices across Seattle, and next generation mobile wireless internet.
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Essex Property Trust (ESS) is a twenty year old company and just only one of three multifamily REITs that have had positive growth in distributions over the past 10 years, and did not decrease dividends along the way in 2009.
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