Next year, Siilaberg
says multifamily developers will add another 400,000 units.
Not exact matches
Capital One will still provide loans for affordable housing and
multifamily financing to real estate
developers and investors, a spokesman
said.
«
Developers are looking at green buildings as the new standard,»
says Jamie Woodwell, senior director of commercial and
multifamily research at the Mortgage Bankers Association.
How much differentiation
multifamily developers need to incorporate into their properties and marketing programs will vary by neighborhood,
say experts.
For years,
developers have been starting construction on new
multifamily communities; meanwhile, demographers have
said reassuring things about the demand for apartments, encouraging
developers to start construction on even more new
multifamily communities.
«Capital is limited in this current market, and
developers are having a difficult time obtaining the credit needed to finance the development of new apartments,»
says W. Dean Henry, president of Legacy Partners Residential in Foster City, Calif., and chairman of NAHB's
Multifamily Leadership Board.
Although improvement has been shown in the
multifamily segment, builders and
developers say credit restrictions are affecting recovery.
«A very tight construction labor market is going to get even worse,»
says Bill McDonald, president and chief investment officer of Mill Creek Residential, a
multifamily developer.
Noting that office is a more volatile product type than
multifamily or industrial, Situs RERC President Ken Riggs
says, «On the demand side, office fundamentals look good, but on the supply side office markets are measured by whether banks are willing to give
developers money to do projects.»