The bathroom is one of the most important sections of a house or an apartment. When considering renting or buying, prospective tenants pay special attention to the look, feel, and size of the bathroom. An up-to-date and refreshing bathroom is ideal for any potential buyers or renters.

Real Estate development projects can easily go wrong if you don’t pick and go to the business for supplies, especially windows. Let the professionals at Mega Supply Pro help decide on the right windows for your project.

Mega Supply Pro helps real estate developers save time and money by removing redundant middlemen grandfathered into the supply chains by working directly with manufacturers and shipping to your construction sites on time, and always within or under your budget.

With the right door, any development project will look complete. This article will help provide some crucial considerations to make, allowing developers or contractors like you to sieve through the pool of door options.

Like any business, building, or developer, each must ensure that its supply chain is running smoothly. If not, it can lead to a host of problems. Here are some tips on how working with wholesalers can help projects overcome supply chain issues.

Here we will take a brief look at how we got here and how these issues manifest themselves into our mindset and our everyday lives. In addition, let's look at how we can better manage this chapter to lessen the negative impact such deficits can have on our health and mindset.

Here we'd like to address the most pressing issues faced by builders and developers today – cost and access to quality building materials and finishes. With the real estate and multifamily markets saturated with competitive offers, it's important to not only finish the project, but to offer tenants a standard of living that will retain their loyalty and win over the competition.

Trend-right, versatile, and ideally suited to the urban environment, loft apartments tend to be diverse spaces. Although they typically enjoy more square footage than your garden-variety studio apartment, they similarly lack the walls and divisions that are closely associated with other apartment styles. The concept of the loft apartment was born in the metropolis — in many cities, property owners, city planners, architects, and designers decided to focus on reviving areas teeming with warehouses or office buildings that weren't in use or that could be transformed into traditional living spaces.

Multifamily construction projects are usually residential housing such as apartment complexes, townhomes, and other buildings where multiple families and occupants live side by side. They are large and typically feature many individual units stacked on top of each other, connected, and or arranged in tight-knit rows.

The construction of these buildings is different from regular homes in several ways and as such, requires unique materials and techniques to complete. In case you’re in charge of completing a multifamily construction project, let’s take a look at some of the best techniques and materials for you to use.

t's a tough market out there if you're hoping to buy and sell at the same time. You may be able to make a lot of money when selling, but housing is in short supply and house prices are steadily increasing. No one can say for sure when the market will balance out, but you have to remember that this will not last forever. The real estate market is inherently cyclical, and follows a model comprising of four main phases: recovery, expansion, hyper supply, and recession. This implies that historically, there has never been a sustained expansion or hyper supply period without an eventual recession, followed by recovery.

The kitchen is no longer just a place for cooking—it’s a place for community and togetherness. With people spending more time in their kitchens, the smart home concept has become increasingly popular. Let’s take a look at some of the ways that people have been creatively upgrading their kitchens in the digital age.

One pro tip for building a smart kitchen is adding one device at a time to your home "ecosystem". You’ll want to make sure that each device is properly connected and communicating well with your other devices before throwing more devices into the mix. This will make it easier to troubleshoot and get any issues sorted out.

According to a survey of Multifamily Developers conducted in March of 2021 by the National Multifamily Housing Council, – a record 75% of the sector is experiencing major construction delays.

Of this group, 77% reported delays in permitting due to COVID-19, and a solid three quarters still reporting delayed starts one year into the pandemic. The main reasons cited for delays in starts were permitting, entitlement, and professional services (72%).

This report was put together by Mega Supply Pro Procurement Experts, and is intended to provide insight into the near future of the multi-housing/multi-family construction sector trends, primarily focusing on the East Coast. Methodology: we’ve designed and conducted our own surveys, collected statistics, analyzed internal and third party reports and articles regarding the recoverability of the Covid-19 pandemic, and its effects on the real estate and development markets.

These are the current trends that have been the focus of most development research. The hardest questions to answer are how much and for how long. We hope to offer you a little bit of insight with our following update based on surveys and results from our year over year study. We have attempted to maintain our focus on multi-housing development, but also to analyze the overall impact that has been sustained in other industrial segments.

In a recent survey, National Multifamily Housing Council found that from lumber and steel to electrical fixtures and plumbing, the supply chain in the US is nowhere near its pre-covid operation levels. Restrictions that are still in place for other industry sectors, such as permitting, zoning, professional services, international trade and logistics, are inhibiting the supply of materials, even though many of the developers are ready to continue working. Many, but not all, that is: the same study found that about half of real estate developers had to pause or delay work on their projects due to pandemic-related economic uncertainty, as well as access to financing for their construction projects.

It’s no secret that the U.S. construction industry is heavily dependent on building materials and finishes from foreign manufacturers, particularly Europe and China. Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, is a major hub for construction materials and supplies. While Chinese manufacturing plants are gradually reopening, the supply chain is rife with disruptions, and there is no clear timeline for when things might get back on schedule.

As the US economy levels out, developers will need fast access to the materials they need to get back to work. To accomplish this, the industry must upgrade from the old way of sourcing construction materials.

As you probably know, Winter isn't the hottest season for multifamily property owners in terms of new customers. We're not going to analyze this in depth here, but let's just say people don't like moving when it's cold out, and school already started.

With the Covid pandemic severely limiting social activities, we thought we'd find a silver lining in this downtime, and find opportunities to invest minimal resources into future prosperity. Time is precious in the rental/multifamily industry, so we'd like ot help you make the most of it.

The year 2020 was like no other, and we want to right away address the giant tyrannosaurus in the room – Covid-19. We can all agree that's fair to say that no industry left untouched after the virus had ravaged the nation, and the world as a whole. Some changes came dynamically through people adjusting and adapting their lifestyles to the new reality, and other changes came through forced regulations, merits of which may be debated forever, but that's beyond our scope of expertise. What we do know, is that multifamily housing has been hit hard from all sides of the issue. From local governments suspending evictions, to implementing new sanitation procedures – no stone has been left unturned in lives of developers, property owners, investors, and tenants.

IoT market research firm Berg Insight analyzed the smart-home technology industry and found that as many as 63 million American homes will be considered "smart" by 2024, with current numbers hovering around 25%. That’s nearly half the housing market, and the implications for builders, developers, investors, etc. are immeasurable. Many of us will have to become experts in this fast evolving field.

To help you get a headstart on the subject we've put together 5 trends that we believe will define the smart home segment in the next several years, and beyond.

Our first episode introduces the audience to Mega Supply Pro’s business model, its history, and puts our experience in the context of the market and industry.

The second episode is predictably focused on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on real estate development, and discusses ways in which the construction materials purchasing processes can adapt to the new environment.

More episodes are in the works, so please bookmark Mega Pro Talk and check back regularly. Each episode will be packed with tips and insider guidance on running a successful construction and development projects.

As a development and purchasing partner in a wide range of multi-housing projects, we at MEGA constantly find ourselves on a lookout for ways to make our products more desirable to tenants to increase retention rates and satisfaction with quality of living, as well as to lower turnover and increase demand for our builder and real estate partners. As the post-Covid era approaches, we expect a significant shift in renters' priorities that will greatly influence and drive the market. This shift will affect both property owners/developers and their clients, and will be based on new information titrated out of the pandemic-related research of the past several months. The changes will relate to social distancing, preventive strategies and reduction of the potential of infection transmission, and the seemingly inevitable spike in the number of employees working from their living quarters rather than commuting to work like in the good old pre-covid times.

Here we'd like to present you with several analysis points we've been working on identifying in order to prepare the developers and their investors for the inevitable shift in multifamily market dynamics.