Journal of Property Management

When an investor acquires a parcel of income-producing real estate, he or she also acquires something of importance for income-tax purposes, namely, "basis." Basis is used to designate the amount of an investor's capital investment in the property acquired....

Ed. Note: This article is the second in a JPM series on benchmarking practices in real estate management. It is based on a presentation by Mr. Maxwell at the 1997 Institute of Real Estate Management Asset Management Symposium. Nearly all of the real...

Not too long ago, real estate presentations to large audiences were predictably uninspiring. "We'd put up a lot of dense information on a screen and expect people to absorb it," says Craig Cardwell, CPM[R], a business advisor who often makes presentations...

Faster than a speeding bullet....more powerful than a locomotive...Look...It's Leasing Lynda on the telephone. The telephone is the most neglected leasing and marketing tool in the multi-housing industry. We spend thousands and thousands of dollars...

Nineties Value in a Seventies Box Even in the booming Florida apartment market, a 25-year old garden apartment with so much water damage that 78 units had been condemned by the city seems an unlikely buy for a REIT. But thanks to a renovation by Pinnacle...

Two important realities, if fully grasped by America's residential real estate industry, will provide significant opportunities for business growth: 1. Between 1998 and 2010 housing demand will undergo a massive shift from the under-55 to the over-55...