Multi-Housing News
 MHN Logo | |
| Format | Magazine |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | Yardi Systems |
| Founder(s) | Gralla Publications |
| Founded | 1966 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 370 Lexington Avenue Suite 2100, New York, NY |
| Sister newspapers | Commercial Property Executive |
| ISSN | 1046-0919 |
| Website | http://www.multihousingnews.com |
| Free online archives | MHN Digital Edition Archive |
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:
| Albuquerque | Cincinnati | Las Vegas | Orlando | San Francisco |
| Atlanta | Cleveland | Los Angeles | Philadelphia | Seattle - Portland |
| Austin | Dallas | Memphis | Phoenix | Tucson |
| Baltimore | Denver | Miami | Pittsburgh | Tulsa - Oklahoma City |
| Baton Rouge | Detroit | Minneapolis | Raleigh - Durham | Washington, D.C. |
| Boston | Honolulu | Nashville | Richmond - Hampton Roads | |
| Charlotte | Houston | New Orleans | San Antonio | |
| Chicago | Indianapolis | New York | San Diego |
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]
References
- ^ a b "Multi-Housing News". thenewmagazinecity.com. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
- ^ Butler, Chelsie (July 19, 2012). "Milton Gralla and K+BB: A bit of history". K+BB Collective. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
- ^ a b Gralla, Lary (September 2006). "Larry Gralla, Founding Publisher of Multi-Housing News, on our Beginnings". Multi-Housing News: 35.
- ^ Wootliff, Benjamin (July 19, 2000). "VNU buys Miller Freeman arm". The Telegraph. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
- ^ Tennery, Amy (December 8, 2009). "Two real estate publications get resurrected". The Real Deal. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
- ^ "Multi-Housing News and Commercial Property Executive Magazines Going 100% Digital". HighBeam Research. June 1, 2012. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
- ^ "CALL FOR MHN AWARD ENTRIES". Yardi Systems. February 21, 2014. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
- ^ http://www.naree.org/index.php?src=news&srctype=detail&category=Association%20Headlines&refno=151