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The 466-unit first phase of Columbia Parc at the Bayou District in New Orleans, La., winner of both the Community of the Year and Best Affordable Community awards, was honored by a visit from...

Consider foreclosure-ravaged Detroit. In the historic Green Acres district, a haven for hipsters, a pristine, three-bedroom brick Tudor recently sold for $6,000—about what a buyer would have paid during the Great Depression. Yet just 15...

Consider these signs of the times: The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index registered 47.1 in August for the category titled "work satisfaction"—the lowest it has been since the measurement was introduced in January 2008. The number means...

Unable to reach a consensus with Lehman on a plan to sell the entire company, the two banks are now trying to sell their stakes, which total 53 percent, according to people familiar with...

By the time she started her YesIAmCheap.com blog in January 2009 as a way to make herself more accountable for her spending, her business had failed and she was $105,665.31 in debt. Today, the...

Vacancy rates are shrinking all over, in tight markets such as Minneapolis and loose ones like Phoenix. It's an unusual situation. Job creation typically drives apartment demand. But this time the tenant top-up is largely...

If you can enchant your employees, they will work harder, longer, and smarter for you - and, ideally, you for them too. Here are the ten best ways to enchant your employees. Provide a MAP....

In the current round, Washington is wrangling over President Barack Obama's call for a "Buffett Rule" to make sure the wealthy pay a "fair share" of taxes—a percentage of income at least as large...

AIM, a national marketing and incentives company, offers cruise certificates to multifamily properties as a tool for leasing and retention. Long a standard in other industries, prospective residents are offered a 5-day/4-night cruise certificate...

Originally, the process of converting a newly-hired stranger into a fully-contributing and knowledgeable employee was left to the personnel department's most junior benefits clerk in the first-day orientation program, with the employee left to...

I believe that the intention of most perfectionists is to do things well. To excel. Recent research shows that those scoring high on perfectionism scales have higher standards, and under certain circumstances have better...

Back in January, one of the major creditreporting agencies, Experian, announced it would begin including rental payments in its credit score formula. In response to Experian's decision, a cottage industry of websites has arisen to...

Stress is unavoidable. "We live in a world of ongoing worry, change, and uncertainty. You have to get used to it," says Justin Menkes, an expert in the field of C-suite talent evaluation and...

Although the Senate recently extended the deadline for a $5.5 billion payment due to the federal government by the USPS to Nov. 18 from Sept. 30, the extra six weeks or so will not...

Those who might help us escape are now being held back by the anti-business policies of President Barack Obama. Obama's administration predicted a V-shaped recovery, based on the historical experience of the 1970s and 1980s....