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And, if stock prices are an indication of which REITs investors wager are ripe for M&A, Home Properties and Post Properties both are on...

As a younger self, I watched mere mortals struggle against the will of the "Old Man" with a child's curiosity. Here I learned a...

The rental vacancy rate, or the share of units that are empty and available for rent, fell 0.5 percentage point in 2013 to 8.2...

These numbers are based on the annual figures published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and speak to a pronounced drop in labor force...

You slice, dice, parse and process every screen-stroke, clickstream, like, tweet and touch point that matters to your enterprise. You now know exactly who...

But the future of the government sponsored enterprises, or GSEs as they are more commonly called, is unlikely to be determined in 2014. Given the...

Led by Dan Gilbert, owner of Quicken Loans Inc., they are trying to rebuild everything--retail, housing, start-ups, transit and even street life--in the seven-square-mile...

It turns out that an online image he liked, downloaded and integrated into his new marketing campaign was a copyrighted, fully-staged photo by one...

The CEOs of Memphis-based Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. (MAA) and Birmingham-based Colonial Properties Trust, respectively, believed their companies combined would be better than two...

I felt completely overpowered by his dismay. We're both Catholic, so many of our discussions circled around our faith-in-common, but it felt as though...

In one of the surest signs that the home-rental business is going corporate, Orlando's biggest new landlord has started bundling rent checks from residents...

But several developments unfolding right now could make the next five or six months among the more consequential periods for housing-finance policy since the...

The words describe employees--from CEOs down to mid-level managers and their subordinates--who tear through an office, disrupting everyone's work environment and leaving a path...

Over the summer, Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat from Iowa, introduced the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 that would raise the minimum wage...

Now, a big caveat: That big October drop in participation could have been skewed slightly by the government shutdown. The official household survey counted...