Darryl Hicks • 9 min read
For much of his professional career, Richard Burns invested institutional capital in large commercial and multifamily real estate projects.
Scott Beyer • 6 min read
The nation’s capital is gentrifying – right before our eyes. The high home prices that once largely existed west of Rock Creek Park are spreading eastward.
Mark Olshaker • 8 min read
More than a half century ago, in what would become the major theme exhibition for the 1967 Montreal World Exposition, Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie created a 12-story urban neighborhood on the bank of the Saint Lawrence River out of modular, precast concrete blocks lifted into place by cranes.
Mark Olshaker • 8 min read
The Federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit statute provides that after the decade in which all tax credits have been claimed, and the 15-year compliance period in which they are no longer subject to recapture, the nonprofit partner generally has the right of first refusal to buy the property at a favorable price when an offer is made by a third-party.
Mark Fogarty • 6 min read
Jeff Huggett enjoyed doing pro bono development work on a project to house the homeless in St. Paul, MN, recently.
Thom Amdur • 3 min read
As I write this month’s column, there are 81 days until the mid-term elections (probably closer to 60 by the time you read it) and only about 35 remaining legislative working days through the end of the year.
Edward Seiler • 7 min read
If you’ve attended an affordable housing conference in the past few months, much of the conversation has likely centered around income averaging.
Mark Fogarty • 7 min read
It’s clear from adding up the pros and cons of last year’s tax reform that the tax credit industry could have fared a lot worse than it did. It’s also apparent that while the industry did take a few knocks, it wasn’t knocked for a loop.
Darryl Hicks • 11 min read
Asset managers make sure affordable housing produces the expected benefits. It’s the job of the asset manager to maximize the performance of affordable housing assets by delivering tax credits to investors, debt service to lenders, cash flow to owners and equity partners, compliance to regulators and quality housing to residents.
Mark Olshaker • 12 min read
Back in the 1990s, I was hired to write an IMAX film entitled Stormchasers, about the men and women who pursue and study “big weather.”
Mark Olshaker • 7 min read
When Tax Credit Advisor took a look at the solar energy market last summer, it was as hot as our nation’s capital in August.
Scott Beyer • 5 min read
Readers of this publication may already know about the modern industry towns of America, and what they have done to housing markets.