Apartment investors would be smart to look to college towns for strong, consistent returns, according to Greg Willett, at Institutional Property Advisors.

There's nothing small about the small-market size in which most are located.

Knoxville, Tenn., home of the University of Tennessee, recently overtook Ann Arbor, Mich., and its University of Michigan as the best-performing area for conventional market-rate apartments.

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