Real Estate

A “sold” sign is posted on a home in Westfield, Ind., Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. The housing market has … [+] staged a furious comeback this summer, even as the economy struggles to regain its footing. Home sales have surged to the highest level in more than a decade. The strength has been driven by

Kenny Williamson | Moment | Getty Images A local authority in the U.K. is to provide university researchers with a house to test low-carbon technologies, with the collaboration set to gather potentially valuable data which could inform how buildings are designed in the years ahead.  The partnership, between Hull City Council and the University of

authentic medieval beautiful villages (borgo) of Italy getty Italy’s region of Emilia Romagna is paying people under 40 up to €30,000 to move to its mountain towns and buy or restore a house, in a bid to revamp depopulated areas.  The goal is to breathe new life into off-the-radar places where living conditions are tougher

The CEO of real estate brokerage Redfin told CNBC on Thursday he anticipates the coronavirus pandemic-driven boom in the housing market will persist into next year. Existing home sales increased 9.4% in September, surpassing expectations, and the median purchase price rose nearly 15% year over year, according to data released earlier Thursday by the National Association of

Custom made to order furniture is more accessible than ever. Emery Bastable/Society Social 2020 has been a year of collective realization about the importance of our living spaces and interior design. Not only are we all spending more time at home, but most of us are renovating, redesigning, and refreshing our spaces to fit the

Retrofits can include the installation of solar panels on a home’s rooftop, such as this property in Kent, England. Andrew Aitchison | In Pictures | Getty Images You only need to look at the huge numbers of people working from home to see how tech has changed the buildings we live in.  Through laptops, tablets

Saqr Al-Qassimi is the CEO of RAK Real Estate, a family-owned real estate developer in the United Arab Emirates. getty The pandemic has dramatically shifted business operations in several ways — there’s no doubt about that. Although the rapid changes have caused some people to hunker down and hide, I believe the shift has also prompted

Companies controlled by one of New York’s most prominent hotel developers received millions of dollars in loans from a government program intended to support small businesses as the coronavirus hammered the economy. At least eight businesses owned by Sam Chang received between $2.8 million and just over $7 million in federal small business loans, according

Credit: GN & EP One of the big shifts in behavior throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, among so many others, has been the mad rush of people leaving cities for the suburbs and buying homes at an astonishing rate. There are also families taking advantage of low interest rates to upgrade their current home to something

Contractors install shingles on the roof of a home under construction in Park City, Utah, U.S., on Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. George Frey | Bloomberg | Getty Images The nation’s homebuilders are seeing no fall chill in demand from buyers, and that has the industry more confident than ever. Builder sentiment set a record high

What special circumstances elicit multiple bids, and how are they best managed to make certain that … [+] each buyer is treated fairly and that there are no dropouts? getty Competitive real estate bidding is back. Not for every property, but often enough so that both sellers and buyers require advice regarding what can precipitate

In mid-September, the envelope finally arrived. As Erin Madden opened it and pulled out the debit card with her unemployment benefits on it, all she could think about was the half a year she’d waited for this moment. She had come to feel it would never happen. “I almost didn’t believe that it had finally

Home buyers expand their needed requirements to meet the demands of work from home and distance … [+] learning getty Last week, Box, Inc., told their staff that they can work from home permanently. Box joins numerous companies who have told their employees that they have the option of working from home indefinitely. We have

CookFox Architects, a firm in Manhattan that works on sustainability and green spaces in designing buildings, is a showcase for biophilia, with its office building in Midtown equipped with three rooftop terraces. CookFox Architects Even as the coronavirus pandemic worsens in the U.S., stay-at-home orders in some areas have loosened and companies have sent some

A new lot of 15 abandoned buildings located in the old Saracen district will go to the highest bidders The Sicilian town of Sambuca is preparing to place on the market a second lot of abandoned houses for a symbolic €2, or just under $2.4, less than the cost of a cappuccino. But it’s waiting

Fitness membership? Check. Streaming account? Of course. Meal kit service? Sure. How about your hotel subscription? Whether for pleasure, work, or long-term lodging, hospitality operators are hoping on-demand stays could be your next must-have membership as the embattled travel industry tries to expand its reach. InterContinental Hotels Group, Marriott and Accor are among the major

5, IIchester Place, a 7-bedroom house in Kensington, west London, is on sale for $42 million via … [+] Knight Frank AlexWinship Photography Ltd London’s priciest homes are in demand and are selling for nearly their full price despite the pandemic. In London, a total of 56 deals for super-prime $12.9 million-plus properties took place

Mansions seen along the coast of Palm Beach, Fla. Getty Images Home sales in Palm Beach, the exclusive island retreat of the president and countless billionaires, tripled in the third quarter as the wealthy fled the cities and higher-tax states of the Northeast, according to a new report. “It may be the hottest real estate

Bitcoin and the technology underlying it, are no longer just the realm of technology nerds, traders and idealists. Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are being embraced by hundreds of big institutions and corporations.  So far this year, payments giant Square has invested $50 million in bitcoin, and at least 20 institutional investors have so far filed documents

People walk into a house for sale in Floral Park, Nassau County, New York, the United States, on Sept. 6, 2020. Wang Ying | Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Borrowers are clearly used to hearing that mortgage rates set another record low because last week’s dip did nothing to spur mortgage demand. The volume

With stunning views of the city, The Emerald is Seattle’s newest waterfront residential tower. Cory Holland, Clarity NW Just completed, The Emerald is Seattle’s newest luxury condominium tower, located above downtown Seattle’s iconic Pike Place Market and the city’s newly reimagined waterfront. The 40-story faceted-glass building located at the corner of 2nd Avenue and Stewart Street

Dropbox Inc. co-founder Drew Houston waits as Dropbox (DBX) is listed for the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq Market Site in New York, U.S., March 23, 2018. Lucas Jackson | Reuters San Francisco-based Dropbox announced Tuesday that it will stop asking employees to come into its offices and instead make remote work

Reports show a shortage of millions of affordable homes currently in the US. Adobe The perfect storm of affordable housing crisis is brewing right now; a threat made up of the already low supply that is hitting the increasing post-pandemic demand head on.   Before the pandemic, supply was an issue. The National Low Income

An apartments for rent sign is displayed outside a residential building in Hells Kitchen as the city continues Phase 4 of re-opening following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus on August 18, 2020 in New York City. Alexi Rosenfeld | Getty Images The number of apartments for rent in Manhattan tripled in September,

Charleston, South Carolina saw median listing prices rise 14.4 percent getty Housing prices aren’t coming down anytime soon according to realtor.com. In its latest housing report, the take-away is housing prices around the country remain at record highs as we move towards year-end. The U.S. median home price hit $350,000, a 12.9 percent year-over-year increase.

The Netflix logo is displayed on a wall at the company’s Japan office in Tokyo. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON – As the coronavirus forces some companies to scale back on their physical offices, Netflix is planning to triple the amount of office space it has in London and move into a

Expo floor at the International Builders Show, one of the largest trade shows in the United States. … [+] (Photo by Roberto Gonzalez/Getty Images) Getty Images When one of the largest trade shows in an industry goes virtual, the announcement makes major waves. That was the case today when Design & Construction Week, the successful

Prospective home buyers arrive with a realtor to a house for sale in Dunlap, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images The number of mortgages in active pandemic-related bailouts plunged in the past week as the first wave of forbearance plans hit the end of their six-month term. It was the largest decline since the

Owners excavated forty feet of cliffside to build the addition to the house Brian Kitts/Steel Blue As San Francisco’s property market continues with a slowdown, there are certain highly coveted pockets of land still riding a bullish wave. Sea Cliff, home to the likes of Marc Benioff and Jack Dorsey, sits in small northern corner

Research associate Sachi Johnson works at Sorrento Therapeutics where efforts are underway to develop an antibody, STI-1499, to help in prevention of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in San Diego, California, May 22, 2020. Bing Guan | Reuters All the fundamentals are aligning for the life sciences industry, as Covid-19 accelerates already growing demand for real