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SmartRent announced the promotion of Pankaj Bansi to Chief Operating Officer (COO). Bansi, who joined SmartRent in October 2025 as Chief Transformation Officer, will now oversee operations, field services, supply chain and analytics, while continuing to lead and accelerate the Company’s AI-focused enterprise transformation strategy.
Multifamily's top storylines this week are the new renter roadmap, hotel conversions, investing in growth, preleasing begins at Modera Bridle Trails, Trump pushes passage of BTR forced sales, NYC axes property tax hike, AI in affordable housing, fixing verification mistakes and renter behavior.
Multifamily's top storylines this week are the cost of trash overflow, redefining the American Dream, public-private partnerships, vacancy and rent forecasts revised, senior migration to multifamily, investor sentiment hits three-year low, WiFi 8, marketing strategies for student housing and cybersecurity.
Multifamily's top storylines this week are preleasing begins at Modera Chandler, NYC's emissions law clears first test, small owners unhappy with Mamdani's rental plan, women leading transformation, deal and financing strategies, discipline driving performance, question to ask before automation, maintenance and lease-up branding.
Since 2020, an explosion of proptech solutions has helped streamline leasing, automate routine tasks, and unlock data-driven decision-making. But that also has layered on dozens of systems, logins, and workflows—leaving site teams to navigate a more complex, tech-heavy role than ever before.
Multifamily's top storylines this week are Kairoi Residential is an NMHC top manager, single-family rent growth slides, local staffing shortages threaten development, resident voices the best renewal asset, the rising fraud threat, multifamily misconceptions, too much tech, monitoring insurance coverage and calibrating marketing.
Multifamily's top storylines this week are spring cleaning and trash management, multifamily misconceptions, Oregon Supreme Court rules on habitability, the housing gap, slow start to peak, BTR paralyzed by housing bill, navigating regulations, the dark side of automation and Verizon outage exposes risk.
Multifamily's top storylines this week are preleasing begins at Mill Creek's Modera Walsh Heights, rent growth hits a floor, rent control gains momentum with local governments, courting pet owners, brokerages, renting to sole proprietors, running a community n AI, solar barriers and creative's effect on leases.