LOS ANGELES — The health care sector is one of the few bright spots in an otherwise dismal market for office space.
Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. on Tuesday said its board declared a quarterly dividend of 35 cents per share of common stock.
Maine real estate agents say sales of single-family homes in the state are up for the fifth consecutive month.
Selling a home without a real estate agent can save thousands of dollars in commission fees, but it can also be a painstaking, confusing task.
Just one in 20 Americans say they plan to buy a home within the next year, and they're most likely to be 34 years old or younger and living in the South or West, according to a survey released Wednesday.
Two Chinese IPOs expected to start trading this week are going to be a gauge for Americans' taste for Beijing's offerings, some of which have flopped this fall.
Investors Real Estate Trust said it expects $62.6 million in net proceeds from a follow-on offering that closed Friday.
A bipartisan push is under way in the Senate to spend more money to stop mortgage scams.
Prices for commercial real estate suffered steep declines in July and the volume of transactions remained low, according to a report issued Monday by Moody's Investors Service.
A waterfront Palm Beach, Fla., mansion once owned by disgraced financier Bernard Madoff was put on the market Thursday for $8.5 million, while his Manhattan apartment will have an asking price of $9.9 million.
Few real estate markets got hit harder by the recession than the Hamptons, Long Island's summer playground for the rich and famous.
At a time when real estate prices have been in almost perpetual free fall for more than a year, are there really places in the U.S. where home values are going up? Unbelievably, yes.
Times are tough for U.S. commercial property owners, but few have it worse than landlords in Detroit.
Even as the housing market starts to show signs of recovery, fortunes for commercial real estate are looking increasingly grim — and that could spell trouble for the fragile U.S. banking sector.
Nationalized German lender Hypo Real Estate Holding AG said Friday that it lost euro750 million ($1.08 billion) in the second quarter as hefty loan loss provisions weighed down its performance.
The residential housing market went into a tailspin over a burst housing bubble and a whole lot of bad mortgages. The commercial real estate market has suffered a different sort of one-two punch.
The good news is there are bargains to be had in the Hamptons real estate market. The bad news as Memorial Day beckons, is you will still need deep pockets, aka millions, to get in the game.
Kostas Kalaitzidis wanted to buy a home when he moved to Phoenix in 2008, but between his modest salary and the expensive market, he couldn’t swing it.
When you sign up for Facebook or Twitter, you expect to get a stream of random messages from the people that make up your virtual social network — but pitches on homes for sale?
Searching for more than advice to navigate the foreclosure process, delinquent homeowners are seeking solace in online support groups.
When one of downtown Los Angeles' largest landlords said this week that it may seek bankruptcy protection because the company can't pay its loans, it didn't bode well for the commercial property market.
An 88-year-old client angrily seeking a down payment back on a deal shot a real estate broker in his office and then sat down in a nearby parking lot until police arrested him, authorities said Wednesday.
Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is working as a commercial real estate investor and has bought an office building just a block from the site of the infamous encounter with a high-class prostitute that led to his downfall.
Sen. Judd Gregg, President Barack Obama's former nominee for commerce secretary, won taxpayer money for redevelopment of a shuttered Air Force base where he and his brother had invested in commercial property, an Associated Press investigation found.
Choosing a neighborhood with good schools often is near the top of the list for homebuyers. But what makes a school better than the next goes beyond test scores and student-teacher ratios.
Sales of new homes are expected to have increased in November for the third month in a row, a sign that the housing market is finally on solid ground.
Home resales rose to the highest level in nearly three years, reflecting an extraordinary level of federal support that has pulled the housing market back from the worst downturn since the Great Depression.
Homeowners who get a substantial cut in their monthly mortgage payments still stand a good chance of falling behind again, a report by two federal regulators says.
Citigroup Inc. will suspend foreclosures and evictions for 30 days in a temporary break for about 4,000 borrowers during the holiday season.
The National Association of Home Builders said Tuesday its housing market index fell by one point to 16 this month, reflecting concern that job losses will stifle demand for new homes.
MINING heiress Angela Bennett's Mosman Park riverside mansion has been sold for $57.5 million - an Australian record.
Privately-held real estate company Fairfield Residential LLC filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday, saying that the collapse of the U.S. real estate and capital markets has made it difficult to continue without restructuring.
The final tally for 2006 confirmed that the housing market had its worst slump in nearly two decades. So has the housing market bottomed out yet - or will prices slide further before the market recovers? By MSNBC.com's John W. Schoen.
Forecast for 2010 commercial real estate industry
Predictions for the future of real estate and what commercial real estate will boom in the coming year.
The number of homeowners on the brink of foreclosure fell in November, the fourth straight monthly decline, as mortgage companies evaluated whether borrowers were eligible for help.
Only about 10,000 homeowners have received permanent loan modifications under the Obama administration's mortgage relief plan.
Even the snow can be romantic in these mountaintop luxury homes.
Before you bid on a home, check for potentially dicey, and pricey, problems.
About 25% of borrowers helped under the administration's massive foreclosure prevention program are delinquent, the Treasury Department says.
Stop paying your mortgage. That's the underlying message from a University of Arizona law professor, whose new paper is hitting a nerve as the nation's housing crisis enters its fourth year.
Federal regulators on Monday accused three former top executives of collapsed mortgage lender New Century Financial Corp. of fraud, saying they misled investors as the company's subprime loan business was failing in 2006.
This is going to be short and sweet. I owe my buddy Mandalman an apology. It's going to be slightly off handed, but an apology just the same.
Oh say can you see Mr. President ?. On Monday the federal government admitted efforts to stabilize the U.S. housing market by injecting 75 billion dollars into the financial sector, had failed miserably.
A week after concerns about debt problems at one of Dubai's biggest firms sent ripples around the financial world, Malcolm Borthwick, editor of the BBC's Middle East Business Report asks British ex-pats and Emiratis about the lasting impact of this turbulent period.
Stop paying your mortgage. At least that's the message from a University of Arizona law professor for owners whose homes are underwater.
Stop paying your mortgage. At least that's the message from a University of Arizona law professor for owners whose homes are underwater.
By BRIAN MURPHY, Associated Press Writer Brian Murphy, Associated Press Writer – Wed Dec 2, 6:10 pm ET DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – When work began in 2004 to build the world's tallest tower, Dubai's confidence also was sky high with a host of mega-projects on the drawing b …
The number of U.S. homebuyers who signed contracts to buy previously occupied homes rises for the nine straight month.