Colleges Hire Specialized Developers
More colleges are starting to loosen their grip on campus housing and strike deals with specialized developers to help meet housing needs. For investors in the bruised world of REITs, student housing can be a defensive bright spot. Read more...
Mortgage Rates Near a Year High
Mortgage rates are nearing their highest levels in a year, adding to pressures on the weakened housing market. Read more...
Battling Beetles in the Garden
Infestations of Japanese beetles have spread to more than 30 states, wreaking havoc on the foliage of trees and crops. Gardener Steve Stecklow is waging a biological war against these predators. Read more...
Rich Londoners Finally Feel Pain
The credit crunch caught up with the top end of London's home market in the second quarter, when the price per square meter of residential space in the capital's prime locations fell more sharply than in the U.K. as a whole. Read more...
Housing Package Deal Reached
House and Senate leaders have largely hammered out a compromise deal on a mammoth housing package that would permit the government to bolster Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in an emergency, overhaul supervision of the housing-finance giants and allow the government to insure up to $300 billion in refinanced mortgages. Read more...
In a Hong Kong Flat, Customized Design and Storage
Joanne Ooi spent more than $100,000 renovating her two-bedroom two-bath apartment in Hong Kong.
International Real Estate: For Sale in . . . Prague
A two-bedroom penthouse apartment in a 1905 Art Nouveau apartment building is on the market for $2,750,000.
Property Values: What You Get for...$3 Million
An 1851 brick Federal house with four bedrooms in Savannah, Ga.; a three-bedroom house in Seattle; and a three-bedroom chalet-style home in Edwards, Colo.
Lights! Camera! Ka-Ching!
Some New Yorkers rent their apartments and houses to film crews for between $500 to $10,000 a day.
Giuliani Firm Plans Real Estate Investment Fund
Entering the real estate market at a time of profound turmoil, Rudolph W. Giuliani’s company is planning an investment fund based on commercial and residential properties.
