Real Estate

As many as one third of 40 Chinese property developers rated by Fitch Ratings could suffer a cash squeeze in a severe scenario where home sales revenue drops by 30% next year, says the ratings giant. “The longer the stresses on China’s property sector last, the greater the risk of a loss in consumer confidence,”

Innovation districts emerging across the country and the world are in part a recognition close physical collaboration can fuel creativity. Placing innovative-minded folks together in a tight urban cluster devoted to inspiration, imagination and inventiveness is sheer genius. It can foster the kinds of formal and informal connections that spark great ideas. Ask random respondents

A For Sale sign is seen in front of a home in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The already competitive housing market is getting even more so, and that is now cutting into mortgage demand. Even a small drop in interest rates couldn’t bring more buyers in, although it did boost refinance demand

Pueblo, Spanish and contemporary styles combine to achieve a cohesive blend at this flat-roofed home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Built in 1963 and set on a roomy 2.35 acres, the two-story house has been newly outfitted with luxury, entertaining and multi-generational living in mind. Mature trees and a curving driveway soften the stucco façade

Attendees crowd an aisle on the trade show floor during the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Jan. 6, 2015. Steve Marcus | Reuters Canceled Broadway shows. Shuttered restaurants. Lines of people wrapped around the block at walk-in medical clinics. Businesses sending their employees home. It sounds like a flashback to March

While giving birth is hardly glamorous, iconic fashion and lifestyle brand Lilly Pulitzer seeks to change this with a recently revealed a VIP birthing suite at Good Samaritan Medical Center, which is part of The Palm Beach Health Network. Lilly Pulitzer’s own granddaughter was born at Good Samaritan so it only makes sense to pass

In this article WRBY W M DKS DG BIRD A Dollar General store in Creve Coeur, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Wayfair sees a chance to make a pivotal move. The furniture and home goods retailer plans to open three stores in Massachusetts next year. Chief Marketing Officer Bob Sherwin said low

In ordinary times real estate investors don’t worry much about where to invest. Every local market has opportunities, every one has rental properties you can buy, every one has homes you can develop to produce income. Growth markets provide the chance to get higher returns but even stagnant markets need housing that can provide better

Construction materials for a new home being built by CastleRock Communities in the Sunfield neighborhood of Buda, Texas, U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. Matthew Busch | Bloomberg | Getty Images At some point the price is just too high. That may be increasingly the case for potential buyers of newly built single-family homes. Sales

The beach towns that decorate the coast of Los Angeles County, while sharing many similarities such as sunny weather, highly desirable real estate and a dreamy, laid-back glamour, are not all made the same—each has idiosyncrasies that define both reputation and reality. There’s Venice with its bohemian charms, Malibu with its dramatic beauty or Manhattan

HOUSTON, TEXAS – AUGUST 12: A newly sold home is shown on August 12, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Home prices have climbed during the pandemic as low interest rates and working from home has become more abundant. Home prices around the country continue to surge in the second quarter as strong demand continues to overwhelm

Talk about timing. A Hawaii property containing a working Christmas tree farm sold as the calendar counted down to the holiday. Set high in the hillside community of Launiupoko on Maui’s west side, the nearly three-acre spread also contains a bungalow, a barn and an orchard with a variety of fruit trees. The site takes

Migrant workers build a scaffold at the construction site of Huayang Commercial City Phase II in Huai ‘an City, east China’s Jiangsu Province, Feb. 7, 2021. Costfoto | Barcroft Media | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s struggling real estate developers face a growing number of repayment deadlines in the next few months. Real estate giant

The former Los Angeles mansion of entertainer and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs has been recently updated and is on the market for $14.5 million. Combs, known professionally as Puff Daddy, is an American rapper, songwriter, record executive, record producer and entrepreneur.  Combs lived in the recently updated home from 2008 to 2013. Located in the

Image Source | Getty Images Fast-growing prices in the housing market, as well as low interest rates, are enticing more investors to buy homes, renovate them quickly and sell them for a profit. But while home flips are rising and investors are expecting growing returns, the profits are falling. Close to 95,000 homes were flipped

Luxury property deals worth at least $4 million in New York City (NYC) went off the market with relative ease in 2021. While this indicates a subsequent short-term increase in prices for luxury properties, a market slowdown may happen in the year ahead, according to a new report. Leading New York City data and market

Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images It looks like it’s going to be another competitive year for homebuyers in 2022. While the market isn’t expected to be as frenzied as this past summer, prices are still predicted to rise. Zillow is forecasting 11% home value growth in 2022, down from a projected 19.5% in 2021.

Mark Twain’s famous words, “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore,” can also be said of structures from his time that are a valued building component today … old barns. Both land and aged lumber apply at this mansion-sized mountain home in Telluride, Colorado. Set on 35 acres, the stone and wood house was built

A sign marks the entrance to the headquarters campus of Sears Holding in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Getty Images The beleaguered department store chain Sears is considering a sale or a redevelopment of its massive corporate headquarters in suburban Chicago, as its retail footprint keeps dwindling. Transformco, the parent company of Sears and Kmart, said the

It’s hard to say how many prospective first-time home buyers people have struggled to buy a home in the current housing market with high demand, low inventory and multiple buyers competing for the same property, making it feel impossible to achieve the American dream of homeownership. The good news is Zillow has announced a partnership with Down