24 Voices for 2024: Multifamily Leaders Open Their Playbooks
What’s in store for 2024? We interviewed 24 different multifamily leaders to get their take on challenges and opportunities for the year ahead. What are they most focused on, and what’s the strategy to address it?
Join us for the kickoff of RealPage’s annual Voices project, where industry leaders — representing a diverse swath of roles, geographies, portfolios and multifamily asset types — open their playbooks to share their game plans for 2024.
In this webcast, RealPage® experts Jay Parsons, Andrew Bowen and Carl Whitaker will share their top takeaways from the 24 leaders. But more importantly, you’ll hear highlight clips directly from all 24 interviews.
Topics include a broad range of hot buttons:
- Lease-up competition
- Rising expenses
- Debt issues & potential distress
- Staffing
- Centralization
- Policy risks
- Marketing & operations
- “Heads in bed” strategies
Jay Parsons serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Economist for RealPage, leading the Economist and Industry Principal teams to provide deep insights on market trends and consumer behaviors. He is a frequent author and industry speaker on topics affecting multifamily apartments and single-family rentals, including rental housing investment and asset management strategy, rental housing policy issues, risk mitigation and property management.
Jay has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Financial Times, The Economist, and The New York Times, and he has appeared on CNBC and BloombergTV. His commentaries have been published by Barron's, the Pension Real Estate Association, the Mortgage Bankers Association, the National Apartment Association, American Banker and GlobeSt.
Andrew Bowen
Vice President & Industry Principal, RealPage, Inc.Andrew Bowen serves RealPage customers and partners as a Vice President and Industry Principal dedicated to the Institutional and Build-to-Rent spaces. For over a decade, his focus has been on the tools that help investors and operators of multifamily real estate drive yield through better leveraging data and analytics.
Considered one of the experts on revenue management in multifamily, he is a regularly featured speaker on both the webcast and conference circuit, bringing a passion backed by over 20 years of operational experience to the conversation.
Andrew holds a Bachelor of Science in Aquatic Biology from the University of California at Santa Barbara. When not pontificating on the future of the industry, you can usually find him either in the gym or on the lake with his two grown “boys” and his wife of 25 years.
Carl Whitaker
Vice President & Chief Economist, RealPage, Inc.Carl Whitaker is RealPage’s Chief Economist, leading the company's team of economists and market analysts. Carl and the Market Intelligence team specialize in analyzing and disseminating economic and market trends for the rental housing industry. He primarily focuses on presenting trends in the rental housing industry to a wide audience, including investors, asset managers, operations professionals and media, among other personas. Carl has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and GlobeSt and is a frequent keynote speaker for industry events. Carl holds degrees from the University of North Texas, including a Master of Science in Applied Geography.
