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• Opportunity's (Hard) Knock

• MetLife Leads Insurance Company Charge to Multifamily

  The GSEs are beginning to hear footsteps at their back as insurance companies re-engage the market with higher leverage levels and improved pricing.

• Affordable Housing Debt Outlook for 2011

  Access to debt and equity for affordable housing developments improved a little bit more each month this year. And that slow momentum is expected to continue, as interest rates on permanent debt remain low, access to construction debt slowly improves, and the New Issue Bond Program (NIBP) continues...

• Finding a Balance

  A good friend of mine used to throw pizza parties at his “fixer-upperia.”

• Opportunity's (Hard) Knock

  “NOTHING IN THE WORLD IS WORTH HAVING or doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty, ” Teddy Roosevelt once said. Never was that more true than in 2010.

• One Project, 19 Funding Sources

  KENTFIELD, CALIF. — If someone had told me that PEP Housing would be building a 13-unit seniors housing development here with 19 sources of funding on a parcel the size of a postage stamp (0.38 acres) and seven years in the making, I would have tol

• Letters

  A vote for double top plates; flush framing with steel; pocket screws in MDF; shades of green; avoid old-growth lumber; more

• Discouraged Equity Investors Turn to Development Opportunities

  Since the volume of acquisition opportunities never materialized as many investors had hoped, all of that pent-up equity on the sidelines is beginning to view new construction as a more attractive option.

• Breaking Ground: Labor Prices Help New Construction Deals Pencil Out

  While construction debt is much more limited now, construction costs have come down so much that deals are penciling out again.

• Digging for Dollars

  Developers are, inherently, eternally optimistic.