Caitlin Jones • 5 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, March 2010: Brookline Bank, a community bank in Eastern Massachusetts, illustrates a success story that many would like to see replicated to help restore the challenged low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) equity market to a sound footing.
Caitlin Jones • 5 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, February 2010: At a time when it’s often difficult to secure all of the necessary funds for a new tax credit project, developer Tom Wilkinson is getting creative in order to get to closing and construction. In a couple of deals, he’s created his own bridge financing, by getting the general contractor to carry the pre-development or early development costs until the tax credit equity comes in.
Caitlin Jones • 3 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, February 2010: Fred Copeman, formerly a partner with Ernst & Young LLP, has joined the Reznick Group as a Principal in the firm’s national real estate consulting practice. Based in Boston, he will lead the firm’s new Tax Credit Investor Services practice, which will provide due diligence and other advisory services to institutional investors in tax credit projects.
Caitlin Jones • 1 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, February 2010: Stratford Capital Group announced that it raised low-income housing tax credit equity in 2009 for both individual projects and for its Stratford Fund II Limited Partnership.
Caitlin Jones • 5 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, February 2010: Will 2010 be a better year for the LIHTC industry than 2009?
At an early January conference in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the National Council of State Housing Agencies, multiple speakers à syndicators, investors, and others à predicted that the LIHTC equity picture will be much improved in 2010. Some suggested that the rebound has already begun.
Caitlin Jones • 6 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, February 2010:
The new year means a slate of new conferences to be held by the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association.
The next conference, NH&RA’s affordable Housing Conference and 2010 Annual Meeting, will be held on March 11-13 in Miami Beach, Fla. Topics on the agenda will deal with the low-income housing tax credit, historic tax credit, pending and proposed legislation, energy efficiency incentives, and other areas. An optional pre-conference symposium on the new markets tax credit will be held on March 10. Registration is still open. To register and for more information, go to http://www.housingonline.com.
Caitlin Jones • 3 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, February 2010: Enterprise Community Investment, Inc., a national leader in affordable housing and community development, and National Community Fund I, LLC, an affiliate of United Fund Advisors, LLC, recently closed on a $22.3 million federal new markets tax credit (NMTC) transaction that will finance the green expansion of a health care center in New York City.
Caitlin Jones • 2 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, February 2010: On January 19, global financial services firm Morgan Stanley announced that it has committed $110 million to promote community development by financing construction of affordable rental housing in low-income neighborhoods nationwide.
Caitlin Jones • 7 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, February 2010: High unemployment has caused downward pressure on occupancies at many LIHTC properties and boosted rent delinquencies and “skips,” as more tenants lose their jobs, have their hours pared, or move out to “double up.” Meanwhile, operating costs keep rising, and many LIHTC projects face stiffer competition for renters from other tax credit and conventional properties.
Caitlin Jones • 5 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, February 2010: Several new developments have encouraged advocates that Congress may act in the near future on improvements to the federal low-income housing tax credit program in order to help attract more investors.
Caitlin Jones • 4 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, February 2010: More steps than the two current federal stimulus programs are needed to restore the federal low-income housing tax credit program (LIHTC) to a sound footing, according to a new report by the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Caitlin Jones • 5 min read
Tax Credit Advisor, February 2010: Sherman Associates, Inc. had a vision for downtown Kansas City: They intended to convert a 17-story office building that had been a blight for ten years into the Grand Boulevard Lofts, an affordable housing project.