Watts Happenings: News & Blog

It's Turkey for Tenants Day here at Watts Realty! All Eligible tenants who have been renting with us for 10 years or more should have received a letter in the mail last week. Make sure you bring that letter with you to claim your beautiful bird. Happy Thanksgiving f...

(This article, in slightly different form, originally appeared in Wealth Management Real Estate.)  Adaption of sustainable building practices will make industrial property managers’ jobs easier.  “Inclusive and sustainable development.” That&rsquo...

(This article, in slightly different form, originally appeared in Wealth Management Real Estate.) Accredited Management Organization certification can help build trust in your firm among building owners and investors.This month, the Institute of Real Estate Management c...

When students graduate from a new kind of school in Birmingham, Alabama, at the age of 20 or 21, they could end up owning a house.The program, called Build UP (Urban Prosperity) Birmingham, is unlike any other school in the country. Low-income ninth-graders enter to earn a high s...

Friends and followers, after almost 14 years of service to the State of Alabama, Bill Watts retired from the Alabama Real Estate Commission as of this past week.  Bill has served since 2007 and has been appointed by three different governors...a bipartisan Senate feat very f...

(This article, in slightly different form, originally appeared in Wealth Management Real Estate.)PhilippBirmes/PexelsThe 700,000-square-foot AT&T City Center, here in the urban core of Birmingham, AL, is being converted to a massive mixed-use complex of residential, offi...

(This article, in slightly different form, originally appeared in Wealth Management Real Estate—formerly National Real Estate Investor.)https://www.wealthmanagement.com/property-management/how-property-managers-have-approach-risk-new-normal One of the essential mandates for...

By Tony Wilbert CoStar News December 29, 2020 | 11:45 AMAs the new president of the Institute of Real Estate Management, known as IREM, Chip Watts knows the group's 20,000 members will play a key role as companies across the United States and globe begin bringing employees ba...

The following article was featured in National Real Estate Investor Magazinerudall30/iStock/Getty Images It’s time for a true confession: I learn much better face-to-face than I do virtually. Of course, face-to-face meetings take more time. Between travel, delays in start t...

Uncertainty in the office sector sometimes makes long-term planning seem next to impossible these days. Yet even if leasing activity has slowed to a crawl in many cases, office operators and property managers have plenty of opportunity to get out in front of the trends that are c...