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For several years, there was a lot of talk about the impending increases in the development, production and sales of electric vehicles (EV). The anticipation for the EV movement has finally come to an end, and it’s time for multifamily to prepare.

SmartRent has acquired SightPlan in a $135 million all-cash transaction. According to SmartRent, this acquisition will further its product road map and augment the breadth of cloud-based SaaS solutions for clients—creating a comprehensive property and resident management platform.

Mill Creek Residential today announced the retirement of Charles Brindell, the company’s executive chairman. Brindell has helped spearhead Mill Creek’s emergence as a leading player in the rental-housing sector since the company’s inception in 2011. His retirement will take effect at the end of the quarter.

The top storylines in multifamily this week are automation and leasing teams, garden-style communities, enhancing the leasing process, multifamily investment, and rent delinquency.

The top storylines in multifamily this week are leasing automation, the multifamily pipeline, preferred amenities, rent growth slows, hot markets in 2022, and pet tech.

The top storylines in multifamily this week are nontraditional data giving operators an advantage, maximizing your CRM with automation, real estate technology to think about in 2022, the hazards of pet waste, skyrocketing apartment demand, rent growth from pandemic migration.

With apartment leasing and living becoming more tech-driven and digital-centric than ever before, operators must stay on the cutting edge of technology to find new ways of enhancing, optimizing and automating their leasing strategies.

Unscooped pet waste puts the health of entire apartment communities at risk. When pet owners don’t pick up their pet’s waste, there are massive health and environmental implications. As more apartment communities allow pets and assistance animals onsite, the animal waste problem continues to grow.