NEW YORK CITY (June 23, 2016) – The website of Multi-Housing News, an online real estate publication focused on the multifamily industry, was awarded for excellence this month by the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) at its 50th annual conference. Multi-Housing News earned the “Best Web Site Gold Winner” honor for its website, multihousingnews.com, which was redesigned with a new look and feel in 2015. The NAREE judges, a group of journalism professors at Ohio University, commented: “The page has a logical and attractive presence. It is full of information and multimedia and breaking news, organized so that the fresh news automatically appears on the first screen. Users can study market data broken down by region and hone in on property types that are best suited for them. There is something for everyone.” All of the MHN managing and associate editors are named as contributors to the award, but Editorial Director Suzann Silverman noted that the programming team that designed the new site deserves accolades as well. The web design team is based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, while the content team for MHN is located in New York City and Cluj-Napoca, Romania. “We are proud of how everyone worked together to create this site and so pleased to receive this recognition from our colleagues,” said Jack Kern, publisher/research director for Multi-Housing News and its sister publication, Commercial Property Executive. Multi-Housing News and Commercial Property Executive have won numerous awards from NAREE for websites, print publications, and individual articles. Yardi acquired both publications in 2009. About NAREE Founded in 1929, the National Association of Real Estate Editors recognizes excellence in writing, editing and reporting each year. NAREE helps members advance their careers as staffers and freelancers for major digital, print, and broadcast news outlets....

You may think the secret to success is money, recognition or luck, but Steven and Randy Fifield, MHN’s 2015 Executives of the Year, shared that their success started with peanut butter and jelly. At the annual Multi-Housing News Excellence Awards on October 14th at Club 101 in Manhattan, the Fifields engaged in a panel discussion with Yardi Matrix Vice President Jeff Adler (photo, left), and shared some advice, insights and anecdotes from their long careers in real estate as Chairs of the Fifield Companies. While discussing the ins and outs of experiential marketing, Randy said that in order to make apartment living attractive to busy professionals with money to spend, she’d serve peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to people who work in the area and would stop in on their lunch break. “What they do is they work in the CBD (central business district) and then they come home to let the dog out because we have beautiful parks around the neighborhood, and they’d eat peanut butter and jelly because they could talk on the phone and nothing would drip on them and they’d let the dog out, have this great life and then walk back to work,” she said. Obviously the road to success is not literally paved with peanut butter and jelly, but serving homemade sandwiches is just one anecdote that personifies the Fifields’ knack for giving renters what they want before they even know exactly what that is. It’s not an easy feat, especially in a market where the renters themselves are evolving almost as quickly as their demands are. “The median age has been moving up; 95 percent of the renters are college graduates. The median income in virtually all these transit-oriented urban projects has been over $100,000. It’s a totally different market,...