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The Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2010 by PricewaterhouseCoopers lists Colorado's capital as one of the top 10 national cities to watch—the third year in a row the report has highlighted Denver among top-tier...

Buzz on the deal abounds. Richard LeFrak, whose family built LeFrak City, a 5,000-unit affordable housing complex in Queens, has already expressed interest in managing the properties. Tishman and its partner BlackRock Realty—which defaulted on...

At least part of the explanation for the rise in real estate's standing in the 2010 survey is pretty obvious, thinks Mission Capital Advisors' David Tobin: the outlook today compared to a year ago,...

The most irritating or disruptive things about a job may have nothing to do with too much work or boring assignments. Sometimes what gets your goat is the annoying habits of the person at...

The past year has brought layoffs, furloughs, pay freezes, increased health care costs and heavier workloads. And it's starting to eat at you. You can't control these factors, but there are things you can do...

How does government support for home-ownership compare with government support for renting? Cino: Federal home-ownership subsidies outnumber rental support 4 to 1 or about $230 billion to the renters' $60 billion. If subsidies were adjusted...

Attention, multitaskers (if you can pay attention, that is): Your brain may be in trouble. People who are regularly bombarded with several streams of electronic information do not pay attention, control their memory or switch...

Was it wise to accept a colleague or higher-up as a "friend" to begin with? And—perhaps more importantly—in this day and age, when people are seemingly available around the clock because of smartphones and...

Instead, she got a big dose of something new: happiness coaching. Keynote speaker Shawn Achor—a former Harvard University researcher and former co-teacher of one of the university's most popular courses, Positive Psychology—extolled 90 listening...

While year-end upticks in sales volume are seasonally typical, the first quarter of 2009 likely will be considered the bottom of the downturn in apartment sales volume, Marcus & Millichap predicted in a recent...

It is obvious that there has been a fundamental change in the demand for homeownership over the last few years. Fiscal policies and social pressures have encouraged American consumers to buy homes, oftentimes biting...

That was one notable assessment by panelists at the fall conference of the Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center held at Wharton recently. They also offered insights on lessons learned from the...

In the old-school novella, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915), the main character, Gregor, does just that. It's not so much that he bizarrely transforms from salesman to giant bug in the first paragraph of...

He is confident that the 72-unit DeKalb Apartments his firm delivered in Philadelphia's northwest suburbs in November is small enough to be stabilized or fully occupied by the end of the historically busy summer...

The National Association of Home Builders' International Builders' Show organizers have created an event that is not only a trade show, but also a lifeline for companies struggling to sustain their businesses today. NAHB's annual...