What makes workforce housing different than other asset classes? Why should you choose workforce housing when investing? And why not just develop instead of choose an existing community? We give you the low-down on what makes workforce housing a great choice for multifamily investors, straight from the experience and advice of BAM founder and CEO, Ivan Barratt, in today's BAM blog...
As Amazon continues its search for a second city for headquarters to call home, or HQ2 as the project has become known, Indianapolis remains in the running and recently a couple studies took a look at some of the effects landing Amazon's HQ2 deal would have on the Circle City. BAM looked into recent research to see what it might look like if Amazon and its projected army of high-paid employees moved in.
After raising interest rates already this year, the Fed is on target for two more anticipated rate hikes in 2018. The increases are expected to be implemented later this month and possibly in December, according to many with eyes on the market. Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren has appeared in many recent interviews making his case for the increases, as well as raising interest rates in 2019...BAM looks at what may be coming soon in the market, and we boil down Rosengren's main points in today's BAMblog...
The current demand for multifamily rental units is outpacing supply in many areas across the country; however, there's one segment of the rental market that sees a very high demand and a critically low supply almost everywhere – that's workforce housing ... Today in the BAMblog, we look at the current state of workforce multifamily housing and what might improve the supply in this market.