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Mountain View's rent- control program has already survived political and legal trials -- but what about the business test? An increasing number of apartment owners appear to be cashing out rather than working under the new restrictions. If the trend continues, some say it will lead to a cascade of redevelopment spearheaded by large corporate buyers . This scenario would result in older apartments being phased out and replaced with new housing that is exempt from rent control. Those looking at the data with a more critical eye point out that sales of apartment buildings are up throughout the South Bay, and that the number of buyers indicates a healthy interest in investing in Mountain View housing , regardless of rent control. To take one example, Fremont residents Ann and Paul Lethers decided in June to sell their 18-unit complex on Del Medio Avenue in Mountain View, which they created from separate purchases of two adjacent nine-unit buildings. They say they h...

A Cedar Ridge Apartments tenant shows a respirator she claims she sometimes needs due to alleged mold issues at the south Sacramento apartment complex . Code Enforcement is continuing to inspect the complex to determine if there are violations. PHOTO BY MICHAEL MOTT Nancy Avalos watched as her 5- and 8-year-old daughters danced and chased each other. Their laughter filled the living room. “My daughters don’t want to move out,” Avalos said in Spanish. Her voice broke. “I feel like I’ve let them down.” Avalos moved to Cedar Ridge Apartments six years ago. After sharing a living room of an apartment together, the single mother wanted to give her three daughters room to play and moved to a place they could call their own. But now the family is moving out of its two- bedroom apartment , after Avalos’ monthly rent rose from $802 to $1,086. For Avalos and her neighbors, sharp rent and utility bill increases hit the past two months as the property owner, Torrance- based Cedar Ridge Apa...

The kids are not all right—or so the click-bait headlines would lead you to believe. There are countless stories about those flighty millennials who job-hop every year, are crazy-obsessed with their iPhone phablets and shell out too much on  Instagrammable avocado toast or kale smoothies to move out of their parents’ basements and ( gasp !) pay their own rent. There's more than a hint of truth to that last part. About 15% of 25- to 35-year-olds were still crashing with their folks in 2016, according to a  Pew Research study . And that leaves 85% either cramming into apartments with friends or living solo. The young-at- heart data team at realtor.com® decided to dig into these numbers. As it turns out, where millennials are living plays a big role in whether they   are   most likely to live alone, as opposed to with their folks. And there's a lot of variation across the country, we learned. Related Articles "We definitely see a larger percentage of millennials living at...

By: yiseowl - Wednesday, Feb 26, 2014 - 11:11pm Searching for an apartment in Boston is a unique process…and a big pain in the ass. 79 percent of all rentals in Boston turn over their leases between September 1st and 14th, setting the stage for aggressive rental agents and frantic tenant hopefuls . Signing on something that’s not a complete piece of shit requires some legwork and a little bit of patience. Having lived in four different apartments over eight years in Boston, I thought I’d share my experience in finding a decent place for a good price. 1) Figure out where you want to live:  Budget and location are the two most important things to consider when looking for an apartment. The image below is a rental heat map put together by Jeff Kaufman — he used data from the website PadMapper. We took it a step further and added geographically accurate T stops. There’s a lot of useful info packed into this little map. For example, you can identify cheaper neighborhoods by looking at c...

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, USA, August 23, 2017 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Real estate brokers make money when they sell and lease real property .  If it were only that easy!  A sale has always required qualifying large numbers of prospects. When it comes to qualifying potential sales and leasing leads that call in to the brokerage, brokers have had two options in the past.  They can qualify those leads themselves, which takes up valuable time when they really should be in the field selling, or they can hire a real estate assistant to qualify the incoming leads .  Even highly motivated real estate assistants find qualifying incoming leads an exhausting and boring chore.  Omniquo’s industry leading artificial intelligence (AI) based product OMNIQ solves this problem. OmniIQ creates virtual assistant that works on your sales agent’s behalf by engaging with the prospects. The virtual assistant will contact, engage with, and qualify potential clients . It is able to understand and respond ...

Press Release - updated: Aug 23, 2017 SUNNYVALE, Calif., August 23, 2017 (Newswire.com) - Real estate brokers make money when they sell and lease real property . If it were only that easy! A sale has always required qualifying large numbers of prospects. When it comes to qualifying potential sales and leasing leads that call into the brokerage, brokers have had two options in the past. They can qualify those leads themselves, which takes up valuable time when they really should be in the field selling, or they can hire a real estate assistant to qualify the incoming leads . Even highly motivated real estate assistants find qualifying incoming leads an exhausting and boring chore. Omniquo's industry leading artificial intelligence (AI) based product OMNIQ solves this problem. OmniIQ creates a  virtual assistant that works on your sales agent’s behalf by engaging with the prospects. The virtual assistant will contact, engage with, and qualify potential clients . It is able...

By Mary O’Leary, moleary@nhregister.com @nhrmoleary on Twitter Published 10:05 pm, Tuesday, August 15, 2017 stay hotel rooms . Photo: MARY E. O’LEARY / HEARST CONNECTICUT MEDIA" class="landscape" /> stay hotel rooms ." src="src" /> Photo: MARY E. O’LEARY / HEARST CONNECTICUT MEDIA Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 The Union apartments in New Haven are at right, next to the parking lot at 85 Elm St., where 105 more apartments, mainly studios, will be built. It will also have 21 extended- stay hotel rooms . The Union apartments in New Haven are at right, next to the parking lot at 85 Elm St., where 105 more apartments, mainly studios, will be built. It will also have 21 extended- stay hotel rooms . Photo: MARY E. O’LEARY / HEARST CONNECTICUT MEDIA Parking lot to become apartment complex on Elm Street in New Haven Back to Gallery NEW HAVEN >> A surface parking lot the city could never convince the owners of to fill with a garage, wi...

When it comes to condominium development , Cascadia’s two largest cities couldn ’t be more different. Last year nearly 60 percent of new housing starts in the city of Vancouver, BC , were condominiums; meanwhile, Seattle saw no new condominium buildings open . And that’s not changing anytime soon: less than 10 percent of all building slated for downtown Seattle in the next three years will be condos. What’s the difference—why the blossoming of condominium construction in one city and the almost complete dearth in the other? The short answer is economics. In Vancouver, apartments are saddled with an unfavorable tax code , making condos the more lucrative multi- family housing investment even despite high rental demand . In Seattle’s skyrocketing rental market , one that’s climbed even faster than the condo market in recent years, apartment buildings are much more financially attractive, while condos come with bigger risks and, typically, lower returns. Compounding this profit differe...