ARA-haven49-charlotte NCcourtesy ARA
Investors have historically demanded higher yields—and lower prices—for student housing properties compared to apartment properties overall.

Despite high prices and worries about overbuilding in some markets, investors keep

high pay
Americans haven’t been this optimistic about future pay raises since the century began, according to the Conference Board’s monthly surveys. The question is why.

(Bloomberg)—Economists say the country is

Hilton New Orleans gym
The Wall Street Journal details how the financial crisis shaped home buying today. After a tough start to the year, REITs are performing better now, according to The Real Deal. These are among today’s

interest-rate
With unemployment low and likely to keep falling, and with inflation at the central bank’s 2 percent target and likely to rise, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston said Saturday “I don’t

1031-exchange
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act may have caused some confusion for HNW real estate investors on how to best handle 1031 exchanges.

Effective this year, the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Overall, CBRE pegs the overall development pipeline as containing 474 MW of capacity in the

apartment bldg
As apartment buildings completed in the 1970s and 1980s become prime targets for redevelopment, their rents are likely to become less affordable.

(Bloomberg)—For U.S. apartments, older is also better—at least when it comes to rent growth.

Units at

skyscrapers
The office REIT is working with Morgan Stanley after being approached by potential buyers earlier this summer.

(Bloomberg)—Columbia Property Trust Inc. has hired an adviser after receiving takeover interest, according to

amazonJustin Sullivan/Getty Images
Exactly one year later, negotiations with 20 finalist cities from New York to Los Angeles have retreated behind closed doors.

(Bloomberg)—In September 2017, Amazon.com Inc. became America’s most eligible corporate bachelor

Batik_Seattle apartment building
In the U.S., rents were up just 0.5 percent in July, the smallest gain for any month since 2012.

(Bloomberg)—Seattle is known for its hip neighborhoods, soaring home prices, and

feed-image