Real Estate

Having left their hearts in San Francisco during the depths of Covid, people are returning to the City by the Bay. Lots of them have been drawn by the rebounding sense of normalcy afforded by the city’s comparatively high rates of inoculation. Many have also been lured by a renewed focus on what might be

The Emerald Bay residential project developed by China Evergrande in the Tuen Mun district of the New Territories in Hong Kong, China, on Friday, July 23, 2021. Lam Yik | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chinese property giant Evergrande is on the brink of collapse, and analysts warn the potential fallout could have far-reaching implications that

Elizabeth Sutton is one of today’s most popular contemporary artists. Her designs have been displayed everywhere from Bergdorf Goodman to Frette’s Madison Avenue flagship location, The Plaza Hotel, Saks Fifth Avenue in Brickell, Eden Rock in St. Barth, and even on Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing.  You may have also seen her work in some unexpected

Determining the best way to ensure your financial security can seem overwhelming. For James and Michelle Bethe, deciding what to do with the $200,000 they had in savings had them at a standstill. As a teacher, Michelle, 36, has a pension for retirement and James, 38, has some money in a 401(k) plan. For Michelle,

The Beverly House, a legendary Los Angeles estate once owned by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, sold at an auction held on Tuesday. The winning bid was $63.1 million, according to sources familiar with the deal. Listing agent Gary Gold of Beverly Hills-based brokerage Hilton & Hyland declined to comment on the price but says

Residential single family homes construction by KB Home are shown under construction in the community of Valley Center, California, U.S. June 3, 2021. Mike Blake | Reuters Anyone searching for a home today knows full well the pickings are slim. The supply of U.S. homes for sale is near a record low, and the gap

Our city has many lives.  September 11, 2001, started like any other Tuesday. We had office meetings planned; they were to begin at 9:30 AM. But by 9:15, the day had switched from normal to surreal. As we watched, the endless loop of the planes crashing into the towers, and then the towers falling, began

People queue to undergo nucleic acid testing for the Covid-19 coronavirus in the city of Ruili which borders Myanmar, in China’s southwestern Yunnan province on July 5, 2021. STR | AFP | Getty Images China’s zero-Covid approach could worsen the debt situation of the country’s companies, some of which are already in financial distress, says

Everything’s coming up roses for the Shubert Organization. As the Broadway landlord begins to reopen its 17 Broadway theaters for the first time in 18 months during the COVID-19 pandemic, it will also receive more than $82.3 million from a blockbuster real estate deal. Shubert recently agreed to sell two vacant lots on Eighth Avenue

GeorgePeters | Getty Images The number of borrowers in both government and private sector Covid mortgage bailout programs is falling fast, but for those still in trouble, the future is not as bleak as originally thought. Extraordinarily high levels of home equity, thanks to the recent runup in home prices, has struggling borrowers in a

For golfers, there’s nothing more ideal than hitting the links bright and early. That’s easy to do on these 18 hole-adjacent properties from Bigfork, Montana, to Benahavis in Spain. Modern golf villa in Spain Location: Malaga, Benahavis, Spain  Price: $11.28 million (EUR 9.5 million) This villa sits on an elevated spot overlooking the Marbella Club Golf Resort

In this article URW-NL People walk near the sight of Ground Zero and the Freedom Tower on the day that the United States officially ended its participation in the war in Afghanistan on August 30, 2021 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Jay Neveloff recalls sitting in his office on 55th Street

When it comes to Southern California luxury homes, the Ellen DeGeneres touch is akin to that of the mythological King Midas. Except instead of gold, every house the longtime talk-show host and her wife Portia De Rossi touch turns into a gem. The serial home-flippers’ latest real estate purchase, however, is already a jewel in

courtneyk | E+ | Getty Images The end of eviction protections combined with the snail-paced distribution of federal rental assistance means that the struggles for renters aren’t going away anytime soon. More than 6 million households remain behind on rent payments, a figure that has only worsened of late, despite an unprecedented allocation of funding

The hottest thing in residential development is built-for-rent single-family communities (BFR), and billions of investment dollars are lined up to serve the growing need. Investors seeking yield are having difficulty finding enough built homes to buy, so they are shifting more attention to “ground-up” development of brand-new rental single-family neighborhoods. The land-rush is intense. Land

Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mortgage rates appear to be stuck in a holding pattern, giving borrowers no particular incentive to act, especially on refinances. Total mortgage application volume fell 1.9% last week compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. It was at the lowest level

Josephine Gotianun-Yap is plowing ahead with growing her family’s diversified company despite a drag from the pandemic. In August, Filinvest Development president and CEO Josephine Gotianun-Yap made the gutsy call to go ahead with its listing of a REIT, into which it was injecting 17 office towers from its subsidiary Filinvest Land. At $236 million, Filinvest

Aerial views of the $500 Million dollar mansion dubbed “The One” in Bel Air, California. Google Earth A Los Angeles megamansion once expected to list for $500 million has gone into receivership after the owner defaulted on more than $165 million in loans and debt, according to court filings. The 105,000-square-foot Bel Air estate, known

This French Provincial chateau in Toronto, Ontario, looks as though it could easily be set in the south of France. Yet it’s an ocean away — across the street from the Toronto Botanical Garden in a North York community known as The Bridle Path. Once farmland, the leafy upscale neighborhood is today sown with gated

Westend61 Forty-eight percent of renters worry they won’t be able to buy a home during their lifetimes, according to a new Lending Tree survey. That concern is largest among renters in Generation X (41 to 55 years old) and millennials (25 to 40 years old). To that point, 55% of Gen X renters and 52%