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Revenue Manager Q & A: AMLI’s Rich Hughes, Part 1

Archstone’s Donald Davidoff is widely viewed as the leading pioneer of revenue management in the multifamily industry. But he’s also helped bring up a generation of revenue managers who now apply the science – and art – of revenue management across the apartment industry. Among them is Rich Hughes, revenue manager at Chicago-based AMLI Residential. [...]

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RealWorld 2010 Preview: YieldStar, Revenue Management and a Higher Upside

The apartment industry is about to get an in-depth look under the hood of the YieldStar Price Optimizer revenue management solution. Attendees of “RealWorld 2010,” the new moniker for multifamily software maker RealPage’s annual user conference, will learn how Price Optimizer works in at least three different sessions. Topics range from “Revenue Management 101” to [...]

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A Salve for the Recession: Revenue Management in the Apartment Industry

Editor’s Note: With this column, I begin my tenure as executive editor at MultifamilyRevenue.com. Given my background covering technology in the apartment industry, I couldn’t be more thrilled to take on this new role. Feel free to check out my bio here. My goal is to expand MultifamilyRevenue.com’s role as the go-to source for information [...]

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Consistency is Key When Using Multiple Fee Managers

As multifamily investors and operators, we are constantly investigating pricing strategies to find the best and most efficient ways to achieve consistent returns. But what about owners who use multiple fee managers in different markets? The folks at New York-based Abacus Capital Group addressed their need for a pricing strategy across operating platforms by deploying [...]

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