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Today's financial crisis is hardly that grim, though it does share some similarities with the economic collapse of the 1930s -- both were preceded by a housing boom, a long period of cheap credit...

But for the past several months, neighbors have watched as workers in hard hats cleared decades worth of trash from the 80,000-square-foot building, which was built in 1874. Workers have installed new plumbing and...

Even in the throes of what some are calling the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, some real estate investment trusts -- those owning apartment buildings and self-storage facilities -- have held up...

Expanded to 400 pages from the three-page version that was drafted by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and rejected by the House on September 30, the final plan was approved 263 to 171. The legislation gives...

Such value-added plays spell success for KWMF, even in these turbulent times. A case in point is Summer House, a rental community in Alameda, CA. The following explores the process by which KWMF turned...

Job losses outweighed the increase in demand for apartments from former or would-be home owners, said Sam Chandan, chief economist of real estate research firm Reis. According to Reis' results for July-September, the U.S. apartment...

Companies might be better off investing in training fresh recruits with little experience in an industry so the companies can have more control over how the new workers adapt to their new employer's corporate...

Transaction velocity has maintained a steady pace during the last year, fueled by Denver's healthy long-term prospects," Adam Christofferson, Marcus & Millichap's regional manager for Denver, said. High foreclosures of for-sale housing also have helped...

Out of the apartment-construction business for about five years, Don Kenney has formed a company called Metro Development that will build several apartment complexes around central Ohio. Kenney's Village Communities condominium-development company, meanwhile, is...

The study, which polled thousands of workers worldwide, reveals a substantial cost of workplace conflict. It found that workplace conflict is nearly universal, with 85 percent of all workers having dealt with it. Employees...

To be sure, the most visible red vs. blue differences in party support and voter turnout can largely be explained by variations in the composition of local populations. Income, race and ethnicity, education, generation...

During the 2001 recession, just over half the 400 companies studied improved their gross profit margins during the year, according to Diamond Management & Technology Consultants, of Chicago. The winners' secret: Targeted rather than...

Conventional wisdom says "clothes make the man or woman." But a published study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University suggests it's more about how today's competitive-minded companies use colors and...

Look at AIG. In a wave of corporate head-hunting under Eliott Spitzer, AIG was dragged through a public flogging, its illustrious CEO, Hank Greenberg, driven from office. The old AIG-style of board governance was...

The lock-and-key systems most commonly used by apartment communities today are master-key systems, and inherent in those systems is the potential threat posed by the ability of a master-key holder to gain access to...