Real Estate

For many young Americans, the dream of owning a home feels less like a middle-class milestone and more like a prize available only to those with family money or extraordinary incomes. The monthly mortgage payment on a median-priced home has increased 15% in the last year, while incomes have only increased by 4%. And even

When this elegant Roquebrune-Cap-Martin villa was built in the 1920s the French Riviera was already a coveted destination for the world’s wealthy and artistic. The belle epoque had fueled tastes for opulence and lavishness. Clear blue Mediterranean waters, hillside landscapes and the mild climate drew inspiration-seeking writers, artists and intellectuals. Roquebrune-Cap Martin’s grand hotel was

NANJING, CHINA – AUGUST 18, 2023 – Aerial photo shows a residential area of Evergrande in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu province, Aug 18, 2023. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Getty Images Shares of Chinese property developer Evergrande jumped over 70% on Wednesday, leading gains on the Hang Seng Index. The real estate sector was

After bottoming out below 3% in January 2021, the average rate for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage now sits above 7% — which is just too high for many homeowners to consider selling. At today’s rates, most homeowners would need to finance a new home at a higher rate than the rate they currently hold, adding

A “For Sale” sign is displayed in front of a home on August 30, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images After rising sharply for several weeks, mortgage interest rates pulled back slightly last week, but not enough to revive mortgage demand. Total mortgage application volume fell 2.9% last week, compared with

Many Americans are house-rich, at least on paper. Thanks to skyrocketing housing prices, homeowners are now sitting on nearly $30 trillion in home equity, according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve — just shy of the 2022 peak. That’s roughly $200,000 cash per homeowner in equity that can be tapped, which is the amount most lenders

China’s real estate sector is going in “two directions,” and even though further stimulus is expected, a recovery will not likely happen soon, according to a former advisor to the People’s Bank of China. “The property market right now in China is actually two-fold. It’s actually going into two directions,” Li Daokui, now a professor

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In this article WFC Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Jasondoiy | Istock | Getty Images Coming up with a large chunk of cash for a down payment is likely the first thing that comes to mind when people think of buying a house one day. But you probably don’t need as much money as

Apartment rents have been cooling off sharply for several months, and they look like they’re about to go negative compared with a year ago. Rents in August were just 0.28% higher than August 2022, according to real estate tech platform RealPage. Compare that to a year ago, when rents were posting 11% annual growth. With

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A “For Sale” sign hangs in front of a home in San Mateo County, California, Aug. 22, 2023. Liu Guanguan | China News Service | Getty Images Higher mortgage rates continue to take their toll on mortgage demand, especially for refinancing. Total mortgage application volume dropped 0.8% last week compared to the previous week, according

The wheels of the United States luxury real estate market keep turning with big-time sales and exceptional new listings popping up every day. While on opposite coasts and consisting of disparate inventory, New York City and Los Angeles share similarly competitive markets and, as such, have some of the most expensive real estate in the

Residential home construction by Shea Homes builders is shown in Encinitas, California, May 16, 2023. Mike Blake | Reuters Rising mortgage rates are hitting potential homebuyers hard, and that is taking steam out of the homebuilding market. Builder sentiment in the market for newly built homes dropped six points to 50 in August, according to

Well-informed Forbes.com readers are surely aware that co-working giant WeWork stated last week in a 10-Q filing that “substantial doubt exists about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern”. Given that WeWork lost about $600 million in the last six months and only has approximately $680 million in liquidity currently available, I can

In this article UBSG-CH UBS Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT General view of the UBS building in Manhattan, New York, June 5, 2023. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez | View Press | Corbis News | Getty Images Swiss bank UBS agreed to pay a combined $1.4 billion in civil penalties over fraud and misconduct in its

Griffin House is a city-close home with a country feel. Set on a walled half-acre site, the historic residence is just outside central London in the village of East Sheen. Originally a coach house, the property has 80 feet of frontage, old-growth trees and a 180-foot-long garden—ample space for a sports court or swimming pool.

In the past years, crowdfunding has gained traction for certain real estate investments. While some platforms are available to all investors, others require individuals to meet certain criteria to participate. The SEC divides investors into two categories: non-accredited and accredited. In my previous article, I discussed the differences between these two, along with some considerations

Pictured here are residential buildings developed by Country Garden Holdings Co. in Baoding, Hebei province, China, on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Two years after Evergrande’s debt troubles, worries about China’s real estate sector are coming to the forefront again. Country Garden, one of the largest non-state-owned

Tenant behavior in the office market, regulation in multifamily and a much higher cost of capital contributed to a 43% drop in New York City investment sales to $12.8 billion in 1H 2023 from 1H 2022, according to research compiled by Ariel Property Advisors. However, that drop was expected as we began to see a