Building on a commitment to developing young talent, Arbor has added another meaningful milestone to its tradition of excellence, launching the Arbor Scholarship Award Powered by Project Destined. It awards two students who embody high integrity, persistence, and a passion for a commercial real estate career with $1,000 and provides mentorship from Arbor executives.
For more than 30 years, Arbor has been committed to growing financial partnerships that meaningfully impact communities nationwide. From planting trees to celebrate closed loans to supporting environmental organizations, our work has always been a win-win for our financial partners and the planet. But just as leaves change with each passing season, Arbor’s branding is evolving to seize the moment by embracing our roots with True Colors.
Since the Fannie Mae Green Rewards program launched in 2015, green financing has become a mainstay of commercial real estate. In addition to reducing the environmental impact of multifamily housing, the Green Rewards program creates a triple bottom line with increased cash flows, higher quality housing, and lower energy and water usage. With a high upside and little downside, the program is well worth multifamily borrowers’ consideration.
From California wildfires to rising sea levels to Florida hurricanes, the direct and indirect risks of climate change have grown in recent years, making a more substantial impact on the multifamily sector. As the need for sustainability becomes increasingly apparent, lawmakers and lenders have advanced programs and policies that show “going green” is a win-win.
As housing costs spiral, rental affordability has become a more urgent issue, burdening a greater number of Americans. Arbor’s Affordable Housing Trends Report Spring 2024, developed in partnership with Chandan Economics, examines the major policies and programs shaping the marketplace at a time when overdue federal funding expansions have increased agency budgets.
In front of professionals and executives from more than 120 companies at the Real Estate Pride Roundtable in New York City in April, dozens of speakers shared honest perspectives on how far the commercial real estate industry has come on LGBTQ+ inclusion and how much more it has to go.
Lifestyle renters — those who have the means to own but prefer to rent or are willing to pay more for apartments with amenities — have become a key driver of rental demand in single-family rental homes, build-to-rent communities, and other types of high-quality multifamily housing. With this small yet influential demographic growing, our research teams examine and explain the factors driving lifestyle renter demand.
On balance, the SFR sector continues to demonstrate strength amid economic turmoil, attracting increased attention from the broader multifamily investment community.
This Arbor Realty Trust – Chandan Economics article delves into an analysis of multifamily rent collections based on tenant income.
Annualized small multifamily lending volume hit $53.1 billion in the second quarter. Here’s a quick look at Q2 2020 small multifamily investment benchmarks.
Read our second-quarter 2020 report to learn why small multifamily provides sound investment opportunities, amidst COVID-19 challenges.
This economic report analyzes how much federal COVID-19 relief has assisted small multifamily renters and what investors should continue to watch.
On “The Urban Lab” podcast, Arbor’s Chairman and CEO Ivan Kaufman explains the strength of multifamily investments holding up during the COVID-19 crisis.
Watch our Arbor Realty Trust and Chandan Economics video. It explains why COVID-19 is anticipated to drive up demand for small multifamily housing.
The Arbor-Chandan Economics report analyzes COVID-19 effects on the labor market and multifamily properties across the country.
Annualized small multifamily lending volume reached $55.2 billion in Q1 2020. Here’s a quick look at the quarter’s small multifamily investment benchmarks.
Small multifamily property is expected to outperform other sectors, following the COVID-19 disruptions. To learn more, read our first-quarter 2020 report.
While Gen Z is emerging as a source of multifamily demand, millennial renters still dominate the apartment market across a variety of metros.