Revenue Manager Q & A: Oakwood’s Jeff Young, Part 1 As one of the leading temporary and corporate housing firms in the market, Los Angeles-based Oakwood Worldwide maintains a portfolio of readily-available housing around the globe. Boasting a portfolio of 15,000 units in 4,000 locations across North America, Europe and Asia, its job is to [...]
Author Archives: Joe Bousquin
Equity Outperforms with RevMgmt
Here's further evidence that multifamily companies using revenue management technology are pushing rents more aggressively than the market as a whole, and that those tools give them a better bead on what lies ahead than even the most comprehensive macro-economic analysis. Following Colonial Properties Trust's impressive rent push during 2Q 2010, Equity Residential [...]
What Double Dip? Colonial Pushes Richmond Rents 14 Percent.
Worried about raising your rents in the face of that “double-dip” recession that’s lurking around the corner? Don’t tell that to the executive team at Colonial Properties Trust. In a 2Q 2010 conference call that provided plenty of nuggets for apartment pricing professionals to chew on, the company reported that it pushed collective rents by [...]
RevMan in the Recession: Listen to Davidoff and Steiner Jovanovic
If you still need evidence of how revenue management can help stop the bleeding in a falling market, or get you to the top faster in a rising one, listen to the tete-a-tete between Archstone’s Donald Davidoff and RealPage’s Janine Steiner Jovanovic during the Multifamily Executive Virtual Conference. The two multifamily revenue management mavens outlined [...]



