National
Betting the firm: Inside the changing business of residential brokerage
By Patrick Sisson | April 04, 2022 07:00AM
When Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook’s metaverse pivot last fall, he laid out the vision for a not-too-distant future of...
Betting the firm: Inside the changing business of residential brokerage
National
Wash, rinse, repeat: How money launderers exploit real estate
By Joe Lovinger | April 04, 2022 07:00AM
In early March, Lakshmi Kumar got a chance to tell Sens. Chuck Grassley and Sheldon Whitehouse that crooks across...
Wash, rinse, repeat: How money launderers exploit real estate
National
Search and seizure: oligarch edition
By Lidia Dinkova | April 04, 2022 07:00AM
Well over a month into Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the West’s response has left Russia in a financial mess. Well-heeled Russians seen as enablers of the Kremlin were hit with sanctions in an...
Search and seizure: oligarch edition
Russia’s war stalls US real estate deals
By Kathryn Brenzel, Keith Larsen and Rich Bockmann | April 04, 2022 02:44PM
Long before Russia invaded Ukraine, supply chain challenges were driving up construction costs and inflation concerns were setting the stage for higher mortgage rates. Now, just as recovery from the pandemic seemed within reach,...
Russia’s war stalls US real estate deals
Renovate or bust: New York’s aging offices face specter of obsolescence
By T.P. Yeatts | April 04, 2022 07:00AM
New York City’s office market increasingly resembles the demographics of the nation: a land of haves and have-nots, with...
Renovate or bust: New York’s aging offices face specter of obsolescence
Los Angeles
He bought “The One.” What’s in it for him?
By Trevor Bach | April 04, 2022 07:00AM
Less than an hour before the scheduled deadline for the most famous residential auction in recent memory, the high...
He bought “The One.” What’s in it for him?
National
Inside Roofstock’s grand plan for single-family rentals
By Hiten Samtani | April 04, 2022 07:00AM
Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes made of ticky tacky Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes all...
Inside Roofstock’s grand plan for single-family rentals
Texas
Inside Austin’s luxury market
By Cindy Widner | April 04, 2022 07:00AM
Reality TV real estate star Fredrik Eklund made his Austin debut in predictably splashy fashion, riding a horse into a party in one of the city’s priciest neighborhoods and announcing that he and his...
Inside Austin’s luxury market
Miami
These brokerages are winning South Florida’s talent wars
By Adam Farence | April 04, 2022 07:00AM
In late February, Jonathan Lickstein, managing broker at LoKation Real Estate, headed towards Pembroke Pines for another stop on...
These brokerages are winning South Florida’s talent wars
Los Angeles
Southern California’s industrial operators cash out
By Isabella Farr | April 04, 2022 07:00AM
For 35 years, Universal Warehouse Company, a trucking and logistics firm, owned its own warehouse in the South Los...
Southern California’s industrial operators cash out
Nightmare at 20 Times Square: Inside the calamity at Maefield’s megaproject
By Orion Jones and Rich Bockmann | April 04, 2022 07:00AM
It will go down as one of the biggest boondoggles in New York real estate history. French bank Natixis...
Nightmare at 20 Times Square: Inside the calamity at Maefield’s megaproject
Miami
Tighter lending standards foiling condo deals after Surfside collapse
By Katherine Kallergis | April 04, 2022 07:00AM
Condo associations and property management firms are refusing to comply with new lending standards that aim to limit lending...
Tighter lending standards foiling condo deals after Surfside collapse
National
Real estate investors eye student housing as college dorms come up short
By Matthew Niksa | April 04, 2022 07:00AM
People’s Park, a Berkeley institution since then-Gov. Ronald Reagan called in the National Guard to quell protests there five...
Real estate investors eye student housing as college dorms come up short
Miami
Inventing Nora: Developers eye new district in West Palm Beach
By Lidia Dinkova | April 04, 2022 07:00AM
The three-story, boarded-up white building near the train tracks in downtown West Palm Beach harkens back to old South...
Inventing Nora: Developers eye new district in West Palm Beach
Los Angeles
Ranking LA’s top real estate brokerages by agent headcount
By Andrew Asch | Research By Joseph Jungermann | April 04, 2022 07:00AM
The red-hot residential market in Los Angeles has brought skyrocketing prices and shrinking inventory over the past 12 months....
Ranking LA’s top real estate brokerages by agent headcount
The Closing: Cheryl McKissack Daniel
By Kathryn Brenzel | April 04, 2022 07:00AM
An ambitious engineer leaves behind her family’s well-established construction business in Nashville to start anew in the cutthroat world of New York City real estate. A version of this succession story will play...
The Closing: Cheryl McKissack Daniel
National
Editor’s note: Building the future, block by block
By Stuart Elliott | April 04, 2022 07:00AM
Maybe it was just the sun, sand and soca, but The Real Deal’s Future City event in the Bahamas...
Editor’s note: Building the future, block by block
