REAL ESTATE

Conservatives are keen to show voters that the steady economic recovery they have presided over can, if sustained, lift living standards.

From London to Sydney, the Chinese are becoming the most sought-after luxury property investors. And the numbers are staggering.

Economists polled by Reuters had expected the index, which measures surveyors' view of price trends, to drop less sharply.

London has seen a recent of a wave of high-profile real estate sales to Gulf investors. New Scotland Yard is just the latest.

Sika’s board opposed the transaction in a statement, saying that it “does not support change of control to Saint-Gobain.”

Dalian Wanda is looking to raise between $3.20 billion and $3.86 billion in the initial public offering Monday.

However, unsecured consumer credit lending is picking up strongly, growing at an annual rate of nearly 3 percent.

New Delhi is allotting 25,000 new apartments to would-be buyers but it might not solve the city's housing problems.

Home Depot and Lowe's are expected to report solid third-quarter earnings Tuesday and Wednesday.

A New York real estate company has released images showing how the iconic city will look once upcoming skyscraper projects are completed.

The $3.9B, 104-story One World Trade Center building is not only America's tallest building, but a potent reminder of the 9/11 terror attacks.

Walmart, looking to revive its investments to expand in India, has named a company veteran as chief operations officer in the country.

The more volatile multifamily home segment led the increase.

The sale “will ensure that the Waldorf-Astoria New York represents the brand’s world-class standards for generations to come."

The unexpected boom in consumer demand for newly built residences may lift the domestic housing market for the full year.

Apartment construction fuels less economic growth than single-family housing construction.

Neither the Revel Casino's ownership nor its "escalator of death" looks to be making any good moves soon in hard-luck Atlantic City.

Taipei's real estate market, fed by investments from mainland China, has shot up almost 200 percent in the last decade.

Indian tycoon Subrata Roy is putting up for sale three deluxe properties to raise $1.6 billion for a bail bond.

Beijing's swift rescue of falling housing prices indicates an addiction to real estate that, ultimately, may threaten long-term economic health.

A Zillow and Trulia deal is the Grubhub and Seamless deal of the real estate market.

Tenants of Caracas’s notorious "Tower of David" vertical slum are being resettled, but nobody knows what's next for the building.

Sales of new homes rose by nearly 20 percent in May.

One of the Middle East's largest builders accounts for 5 percent of Dubai's stock market.

Four fires ignited Monday have spread across more than 300 square miles.

The word "sustainable" isn't often associated with slums. But planners say densely populated poor neighborhoods could be used as models for green living.

Citigroup agreed to pay $7 billion to resolve a U.S. government investigation into shoddy mortgage-backed securities the bank sold in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis in a settlement set to be announced on Monday, sources said.

A co-founder of Swiss firm Stropiq is turning his attention from Russian luxury real estate to an oil town in North Dakota, his alma mater state.

The Mall of the World will feature the world's largest indoor theme park.