National
Boxed out: Supply chain, energy crises rock real estate
By Cordilia James | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
With huge heating bills looming, Valentina Gojcaj moved quickly to lock in energy rates and keep her tenants warm...
Boxed out: Supply chain, energy crises rock real estate
National
KKR looks to flex its real estate muscle
By Rich Bockmann | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
There’s a particular kind of “New York is back, baby!” vibe to the Edge, the observation deck at Hudson Yards where thrill-seekers can dangle from the tip of a skyscraper 1,131 feet above the...
KKR looks to flex its real estate muscle
Here’s where the top contenders for NY governor stand on real estate
By Kathryn Brenzel | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
Tenant protections and a key tax break for developers are just two of the real estate issues shaping the...
Here’s where the top contenders for NY governor stand on real estate
Behind the Vale: Conflict dogs Zelig Weiss and his hip hotel
By Joe Lovinger | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
It’s hard to hear yourself think at Broadway and Havemayer Street. A smoky mess of vans, pedestrians, bikes, buses...
Behind the Vale: Conflict dogs Zelig Weiss and his hip hotel
Los Angeles
Gamers at work: As esports goes corporate, LA offices are a training ground
By Isabella Farr | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
Pitch-black rooms with top-of-the-line, ergonomic chairs, ultra-fast internet and massive TVs. It sounds like a gamer’s dream home, but...
Gamers at work: As esports goes corporate, LA offices are a training ground
National
Year of the ‘Revenge Traveler’
By Emily Landes | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
Alison Aplin cashed in air miles from pandemic-punctured trips to Hawaii and London for a Thanksgiving break in Los Cabos, her third vacation in as many months. The all-inclusive resort stay follows a trip...
Year of the ‘Revenge Traveler’
Public relations: What’s next for an independent Douglas Elliman?
By Erin Hudson | December 02, 2021 11:01PM
Richard Lampen was ready for a new assignment. It was the spring of 2020, and Lampen had just pulled...
Public relations: What’s next for an independent Douglas Elliman?
National
Proptech unicorn Pacaso’s meteoric rise — and fallout
By T.P. Yeatts | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
Good fences make good neighbors — unless your neighbor is an LLC and their house is a party palace....
Proptech unicorn Pacaso’s meteoric rise — and fallout
San Francisco
How Haight-Ashbury got through the pandemic
By Emily Landes | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
The Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco may be the only place on the planet where someone named Sunshine Powers, who calls herself the “Queen of Haight Street and all that sparkles,” could be the...
How Haight-Ashbury got through the pandemic
National
Can universal housing vouchers ever come to the US?
By Kathryn Brenzel | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
When then-presidential candidate Joe Biden pitched expanding the nation’s housing voucher program to 11 million people, the proposal garnered...
Can universal housing vouchers ever come to the US?
Miami
South Florida real estate braces for flood insurance hikes
By Katherine Kallergis | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
The last time the federal government overhauled its flood insurance program, Richard Nixon was president and Pink Floyd’s “The...
South Florida real estate braces for flood insurance hikes
Miami
Higher ground
By Lidia Dinkova | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
For 40 years, Louis Rosemond lived in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, feeling like he was in his native Port-au-Prince. “We have the same restaurants as in Haiti, the same barbershops, the same rara,” said...
Higher ground
National
Why Blackstone bet $6 billion on Home Partners of America
By Erin Hudson | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
When Blackstone Group makes a play in a new sector, people pay attention. From warehouses to life sciences to...
Why Blackstone bet $6 billion on Home Partners of America
National
CoStar comes home to play
By Cordilia James | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
For CoStar, 2021 has been a wild ride. The commercial real estate data giant kicked off the year by aggressively pursuing, then abandoning, a bid to acquire residential property intelligence firm CoreLogic for over...
CoStar comes home to play
National
Can John Forrester take Cushman & Wakefield to the next level?
By Akiko Matsuda | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
For his first media interview as CEO of the global commercial real estate firm DTZ in 2011, John Forrester’s chosen venue was the Gherkin — the famed bullet-shaped skyscraper in London’s financial district that...
Can John Forrester take Cushman & Wakefield to the next level?
Chicago
Can Fulton Market lead Chicago’s office recovery?
By Connie Kim | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
Like in most major cities, Chicago’s office market faces an uphill climb against high vacancy rates and a string...
Can Fulton Market lead Chicago’s office recovery?
National
A marriage of convenience
By Hiten Samtani | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
For landlords, a new office lease once promised a decade of predictable cash flows. It made everything neat. Office buildings were easy to understand and value, boring in a way that made them easy...
A marriage of convenience
Los Angeles
Megadorm man Charlie Munger has no time for haters
By Trevor Bach | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
In over half a century atop the business world, Charlie Munger has never dealt with an outcry quite like...
Megadorm man Charlie Munger has no time for haters
The Closing: Bruce Stachenfeld
By Keith Larsen | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
Guests in Bruce Stachenfeld’s Midtown office are greeted by stuffed hedgehogs, half-empty bottles of Scotch and a snorting plastic pig. In conversation, he gives off the air of a classics professor rather than a...
The Closing: Bruce Stachenfeld
National
Editor’s note: My “Succession” obsession
By Stuart Elliott | December 03, 2021 07:00AM
Audience members could be forgiven for thinking they were watching an episode of “Succession.” Last month at The Real...
Editor’s note: My “Succession” obsession