“Credit defaults will definitely happen. It’s just a matter of timing, scale, and how big the impact is,” a bank regulator says.
A Chinese property tycoon blamed bureaucratic red tape for unsustainable housing prices.
Move over, Dustin Moskovitz! The new youngest billionaire in the world is in town.
ECADI, the architects behind five of the tallest buildings, acquired Wilson Associates, one of the world's leading interior architecture firms.
The Southeast Asian nation is now the most expensive city to live in.
European countries are opening their doors to wealthy Chinese, as Canada says no. What's the impact of the capital flow?
Subrata Roy heads India's Sahara Group, which runs New York's Plaza Hotel, has been under the scanner for a multi-billion dollar fraud.
Yale University economics professor Robert Shiller said an annual fall in home prices is a potential threat in 2014, if several risks converge.
Profit margins are falling hard for Singapore properties, but foreign developers don't seem to care.
Blackstone’s innovative rental-backed security launched late last year in a $480 million offering.
After 10 years of strong growth, Sweden boasts record home prices, but experts remain divided over whether it's a bubble.
Is it a momentary pause in the U.S. housing sector's recovery, due to the winter slowdown in construction, or the sign of a deeper problem?
China's 76-mile-long project would serve as an important link between frigid northern China and its tropical south.
The man behind the Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual “liveability” report is the first to admit that “liveability” is a hard word to define.
As corn prices hit a near five-year low, farmers are struggling as their land becomes less valuable.
Businesses that rely on having a prime location may be out of luck in Yangon, Myanmar's commercial center.
And here's why that may be a very bad idea for the world's second-largest economy.
Rep. Mark Takano has called for more oversight of rental-backed securities, a new financial innovation introduced by Blackstone late in 2013.
The Land of the Rising Sun is becoming the Land of the Rising Real Estate Market.
The United Arab Emirates may have welcomed 10 new skyscrapers in 2013, but another nation completed three times as many.
RealtyTrac, in its report released Monday, said that foreclosure filings were down 53 percent from their peak in 2010.
A companion question: Were U.S. home prices buoyed artificially by business investors in the market for quick profits?
The state tops one less-than-favorable list.
A former California real estate salesman is looking to establish Galt's Gulch in Chile, a utopian mix of Ron Paul, Ayn Rand and bitcoin.
Analysts see a fall from recent peaks in industrial agricultural spending by farmers, which could hurt equipment dealers, farmers and farmland investors.
Big investors are seeking U.S. properties and deals to diversify away from Israeli stocks and bonds, among other reasons.
Also, in another solid year for the U.S. housing sector, new home prices advanced at a double-digit rate.
The move was a bit of a surprise, but the U.S. stock market reacted favorably.
Average new home prices in major cuties are up 9.9 percent, and even more in Beijing and Shanghai.
Despite improvements in the housing market, 6.4 million U.S. homeowners still owed more on their homes than what they're worth, CoreLogic said.