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It's that time of year again. We're a few days away from RETTC OPTECH, the premier multifamily technology show of the year. As usual, we'll take a detailed look at this...

Last week Yardi’s YASC conference took place in San Diego, bringing to a close what has been, by some distance, the most interesting month or so of technology...

Another week, another conference in a fascinating fall series full of clues about how AI is progressing in property management. This week, it was AppFolio, marking its 20

Blueprint just wrapped in Las Vegas and, as usual, it was an excellent melting pot of people involved in real estate technology. I use “melting pot” advisedly, because...

Multifamily operators have never focused as much attention on renewals as they have on new leases. That is an uncontroversial view, irrespective of renewal decisions...

Sometimes, what we can see makes us more aware of what we cannot. Before Neptune was observed in 1846, irregularities in Uranus’s orbit led astronomers to predict...

 There's been a lot of talk in multifamily technology lately about compliance. It's worth understanding for what it tells us about a disconnect between sellers and buyers of technology.

For the last few years, centralization has been one of the biggest stories in multifamily operations. We have seen substantial progress in property admin functions and some movement in leasing. But, as the last few editions of the 20for20 Annual Survey have demonstrated, little progress has been made on maintenance centralization.

 There has always been a strange characteristic about revenue in multifamily housing.

 An interesting theme has been developing for much of this year about how AI is changing how leaders think about the technology they are using.

For a number of years, AI has promised to sweep everything before it. In tech terms, it probably will, but we are clearly in the early innings of that transformation in multifamily. Expectations remain relatively immature, and while AI is already ubiquitous in multifamily technology stacks, it remains far from clear what AI is actually supposed to do for operators.