2024年4月23日发(作者：)

Promoting sustainability in the United States multifamily

property management industry (促进美国多户型住宅物业管理行业的可持续发

展)

EA Hopkins，DC Read，RC Goss

《Journal of Housing and the Built Environment》,2022,32(2):1-16

英文 3593 单词， 21196 字符；中文 6168 汉字

Efforts to promote environmental sustainability in the real estate

industry continue to proliferate throughout the United States in response to both

economic and social forces. This trend has received a considerable amount of

attention in the academic literature, yet relatively little is known about the importance

of sustainability to third-party property management firms operating in the

multifamily sector of the housing market. For those interested in promoting

sustainability, an important question that arises is whether barriers to

environmentally-friendly business practices commonly observed throughout the

housing industry extend to the market for third -party property management services.

A second question of equal relevance focuses on determining what sustainability

initiatives third -party property management firms are actually using in their efforts to

procure new clients or retain existing ones. The qualitative analysis presented in this

paper is one of the first to the authors’ knowledge to explore third-party property

managers’ perceptions about sustainability in an attempt to address the

aforementioned issues. The findings of this study support two overarching

conclusions. First, sustainability is increasingly being promoted by large, third -party

property management firms in the multifamily housing industry. Nonetheless,

numerous barriers are perceived to exist that may impinge upon future efforts to

reduce the environmental impact of the rental housing stock. Second, some firms

appear to be better positioned than others to take advantage of sustainability initiatives

as a result of the types of properties they manage and the characteristics of the owners

they represent.

Business strategy, Environmental sustainability, Green buildings,

Multifamily housing, Property management

Efforts to promote environmental sustainability (hereafter ‘‘sustainability’’) in

the real estate industry continue to proliferate throughout the United States in

response to both economic and social forces. This trend has received a considerable

amount of attention in the academic literature, yet relatively little is known about the

importance of sustainability to third-party property management firms operating in the

multifamily sector of the housing market. Third-party property management firms,

defined as those who actively engage in the fee management of apartment

communities in which they do not have an ownership interest, act in an advisory role

to their clients by providing a wide array of services. These services can include

marketing, leasing, budgeting, maintenance and repairs, staffing, property policies and

procedures, capital improvements, rent collection, bill payments, establishment of

rental rates, and resident relations. This gap in the extant research is noteworthy

because these firms manage millions of apartment units across the country and the

number continues to grow. There are currently 19.7 million apartment homes in the

United States representing $1.3 trillion to the economy and there could be 5 million

new rental households formed by 2023 (National Multifamily Housing Council 2022).

Third-party property management firms are therefore, well positioned to reduce the

environmental impact of the rental housing stock if they have the ability, autonomy

and inclination to do so when making management decisions.

For those interested in promoting sustainability, an important question that arises