The love story began in 1955, when Epstein was first approached by then Los Angeles County Supervisor Burton Chase to assist in the planning...

Try as we may, we can not simplify this complexity into an app, a box or other metric container, wrapped in our intentions. We...

The new report also includes any property tax liens and whether you've fallen behind on your homeowner's association dues. It may reflect that you...

The number of permits to build apartments jumped to a three-year high in October. In 12 months, they've surged 63 percent. Blame the housing bust,...

With apartments nearly full and waiting lists piling up, a sense of rental euphoria has fallen over downtown Cleveland. The downtown apartment market has tightened...

Cathedral Commons is a $125 million, two-block, mixed-use development that will include 137 apartment units and eight townhomes, more than 500 parking spaces, and...

A survey out the first of December, by the EMC Corporation, is showing that nearly one-third of companies across the globe are able to...

Will rich societies start consuming less? Could wealth go green? Might parsimony become the new luxury? Heresy, surely, you would say. But it might...

The multihousing vacancy rate in 2011 isprojected to be 5.5 percent (on an annualized basis), down 60 basis points (bps) from a year ago...

On a year-over-year basis, AvalonBay Communities saw FFO per share growth in Q3 of more than 19 percent, the highest growth rate in six...

"Even traditional companies have discovered they can generate totally new lines of business by collecting and using their customers' information," says Andrea Matwyshyn, professor...

The stake would be about half of the ownership held by the two banks and sets the clock ticking for the remaining owner, Lehman...

There's nothing wrong with expecting excellence, and taking steps to get it. The problem is, we tend to take excellence—and thoughtfulness, and kindness, and...

Abstractionitis We have forgotten how to use the real names of real things. Like doorknobs. Instead, people talk about the idea of doorknobs, without actually...

Until the recent uproar over the discovery of Carrier IQ's analytics software running on a variety of mobile devices, including Apple iPhones and Google...

The citizens of Seattle have just such an opportunity by encouraging development of dynamic pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods in the areas surrounding Sound Transit's light-rail stations....

Q: As a property manager, I am under contract with an owner to advertise and show his single-family rental. I recently chose new tenants...

Lehman, which owns 47 percent of Archstone, is in discussions with investors including Blackstone Group LP and Brookfield Asset Management Inc. to arrange financing,...

In the third quarter of 2011 alone, 39 senior housing deals worth $5.5 billion were completed, primarily by real estate investment trusts that specialize...

The tenant association hopes to convert the adjacent complexes, with 11,232 apartments, into a condominium or cooperative under a plan in which residents could...

Unable to afford Orange County's skyhigh rents, she opted for Portland, Ore. "A big motivator was that I lived with roommate after roommate after...

At a "nice" $3,500-per-month loft in the Mission, "80 people showed up for the open house," said Ms. Lamas, 23, who recently began working...

Peter Fader: Can you tell us what NPS stands for? Those three letters are on everyone's mind these days, and a lot of businesses...

As Bertie examined my elbow, I reminded him of everything I had done to try to fix my problem. When it began to hurt,...

Kimberly Scott, founder of Capture the Market, a real estate video production studio in Dallas, Texas, is hesitant to agree with such a trivialization....

The research: In the 1990s, James Pennebaker helped develop a computer program that counted and categorized words in texts, differentiating content words, which convey...

Then telephone surveys began to supplement mystery shopping. Today, digital technologies are supplanting both, with online customer surveys providing an exponentially greater number of...

Whatever measure of truth there may have been in that cliche, the reality is that by refusing to accept the real estate correction as...