Multi-Housing News

Multi-Housing News (MHN) is an online real estate magazine. For more than 40 years, MHN has provided the members of the multi-family community with the latest news and the information they need to know to grow and run their businesses more efficiently. Its readers are the top level executives in the multi-housing industry.^[1]

History

Start as Apartment Construction News

The 1960s were a prosperous time for both single-family and multi-family housing in the U.S. However, the leading publications for homebuilders of that period focused more on single-family homes, ignoring the multi-housing field. There was a need for a magazine focused on multi-family housing. The Gralla brothers, Milton and Larry, who started Gralla Publications in 1955, saw this need and decided to solve the problem. In September 1966, after months of research, they launched Apartment Construction News.^[2] Wesley Wise was hired as the magazine’s first editor-in-chief. Apartment Construction News was an immediate success. It grew rapidly and it quickly became a leader for the residential housing industry.^[3]

New name, same mission

The magazine was published as Apartment Construction News until 1976. That year’s October issue featured a new name: Multi-Housing News.^[3] MHN continued on the same path for the next several decades, providing in-depth news and analysis of the events taking place in the multi-housing industry. Over the years, it adapted and evolved, always looking to meet the needs of its audience.

Change of ownership

The magazine’s ownership changed several times in the past couple of decades. In 1991, Gralla Publications merged with Miller Freeman Publications to create Miller Freeman, Inc. Nine years later, Dutch publishing company VNU acquired Miller Freeman, Inc. for $650 million in cash.^[4] VNU changed its name to The Nielsen Company in 2007. In 2009, Nielsen sold Multi-Housing News together with its sister newspaper, Commercial Property Executive, to Yardi Systems, Inc. The Santa Barbara, Calif.-based software vendor for the real estate industry has owned MHN since then.^[5]

Move from print to online

Yardi Systems relaunched Multi-Housing News in February 2010. It continued with both its print and online versions until July 2012, when the magazine went completely digital.^[6]

Services

MHN covers all segments of the multi-housing industry including market rate, luxury and affordable as well as student and seniors housing.^[1]

MHN Online Services:

• Daily updated news stories;
• Specialty digital newsletters;
• Multi-Housing News digital magazine;
• In-depth analysis, commentary and case studies;
• Industry links, research and market reports;
• Industry events listings;
• Awards programs;
• Webinars;
• Searchable archive of past issues;
• Online registration for Multi-Housing News-sponsored events.

MHN covers local, national and international news. The MHN City Pages section provides information about the following markets:

Events

Each year MHN holds a special event in New York, called the MHN Excellence Awards. It recognizes the multifamily industry’s most noteworthy people, companies and properties. The winners are selected by a panel of judges representing expertise across all multifamily disciplines.

Categories include:^[7]

• Executive of the Year;
• Property Manager of the Year;
• Leasing Agent of the Year;
• Development Company of the Year;
• Property Management Company of the Year;
• Best Brokerage Office;
• Transaction of the Year;
• Best Apartment Community;
• Most Tech-Savvy Community;
• Best Marketing Program;
• Best Value-Add Renovation;
• Best New Development and Design;
• Best New Development: Unbuilt.

Awards

On June 13, 2014, MHN won the Bronze Award for Best Website, at the National Association of Real Estate Editors' 64th Annual Real Estate Journalism Awards. NAREE presented the awards at its 48th Annual Real Estate Journalism Conference, at the Westin Oaks hotel, in Houston. A panel of expert judges from the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University selected all the award winners. “This site is consistently updated with useful news and includes unusual features, such as a user poll. It serves a niche market with interviews and tightly focused content,” the judges commented about MHN.^[8]

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