Real Estate

During the week ending August 16th, Manhattan saw 282 listings added to its real estate roster, while 302 contracts were signed, almost 100 more than the historical average (see chart courtesy of UrbanDigs below). This suggests the residential real estate version of an inverted yield curve, and it has been happening week after week for

This is an excerpt from CNBC Make It’s weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. But if you’re currently renting your place, you might see the price tick up when it’s time to renew your lease. In fact, rent is forecast to be even higher this year than it would have

A National Association of Realtors “30 Under 30” agent, serving the Del Mar/San Diego luxury residential market with Anderson Coastal Group. Last year, over 4.2 million acres in California were impacted by nearly 10,000 wildfires, making it the largest wildfire season in modern history. As a result, businesses and organizations — from real estate brokers and

Prospective home buyers arrive to tour a house for sale in Dunlap, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Borrowers backed away from the mortgage market last week, as higher interest rates chilled a recent revival in refinances. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($548,250 or less)

Founder and CEO, Visual Lease. The financial world has a never-ending list of new standards and practices to adhere to, many of which intersect with the world of corporate real estate. New lease accounting standard ASC 842 requires businesses to represent their real estate and equipment leases on their balance sheet. While this may sound like

In this article TREE darekm101 | Getty Image Big-city dwellers may dream of slashing expenses by moving to the country. But owning a home in a small town can be just as costly as a major metropolis — and in some cases, properties may be pricier. That’s according to a study from LendingTree, which analyzed

Patrick is Founder and CEO of CARROLL, a national real estate firm combining institutional investment capacity with real estate operations.  The onset of the global pandemic brought uncertainty to a lot of industries, with real estate as a whole being no exception. The multifamily sector, however, has continued to weather the storm relatively well, especially in

There’s lavish, and then there’s Mandalay House. The Mediterranean-style trophy estate is in coastal Airlie Beach in the Whitsundays region of Queensland, Australia. Created by property developer and yacht seller Neil Murray and his wife Denise over a three-and-a-half year period, the spread boasts a private helipad, a rock-walled marina, two jet-ski bays and a

Residential buildings in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. James Andrews | iStock | Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down at least part of New York’s eviction moratorium, potentially leaving thousands of renters in the state at risk of being forced out of their homes. The court’s order

A view of the City of London on a clear day. Vuk Valcic | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images LONDON — About 10% of London offices could soon become unusable when new rules on energy efficiency are implemented, according to analysis from a leading real estate company. Under the new standards, set to

VP of Investor Relations at Boron Capital, a private investment firm serving diverse segments of the population. In the current rocky economy, more and more investors are looking for investments that can give them at least a modicum of peace of mind. Investors want some assurance that the industry they’re investing into won’t be swept away

New York City housing advocates and tenants march to demand Gov. Andrew Cuomo cancel rent amid the pandemic on Oct. 10, 2020. Andrew Lichtenstein | Corbis News | Getty Images A U.S. judge rejected on Friday a request by landlord groups to block the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new eviction moratorium. The decision

Set on close to two acres with ocean, island and mountain views, this Mediterranean mansion in a wealthy enclave of Santa Barbara, California, has several claims to fame. It’s been the personal residence and restoration project of actress-writer-producer Kathleen McClellan, whose credits include “For Better or for Worse,” “The Bold and the Beautiful” and a

Kyle Little, chief operating officer at New York-based wholesale distributor Sherwood Lumber, told CNBC on Thursday that the recent slide in lumber prices has rekindled demand after a massive runup earlier this year challenged the affordability of building projects. “Over the last three weeks we’ve seen renewed interest,” the industry veteran and former lumber trader

A $30 million sale has crushed the record for the most expensive real estate deal in the San Fernando Valley and Calabasas. The title was previously held by Khloé Kardashian, who sold her Calabasas home for $15.5 million in November. The sale, which closed Tuesday, also bests the $20 million Nick Jonas paid for his

In this article CWK The CEO of commercial real estate brokerage firm Cushman & Wakefield told CNBC on Wednesday he’s seeing encouraging signs in the office market as it overcomes significant coronavirus-related disruption. “We lost about 2.9 million office jobs in April, May of last year. We’ve recovered 2.2 million of those jobs and we

Genies CEO Akash Nigam closed on a $4.27 million home in Venice on Thursday. Agent Josh Picker with Douglas Elliman Real Estate in Beverly Hills represented the buyer. Drew Gitlin of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices in Brentwood represented the seller, Craig Johnson, a partner with the Golden State Warriors basketball team. Nigam and Genies co-founder Evan

Pent-up demand is bringing shoppers back to malls like the Mall of America in Minneapolis. Owen Franken | Corbis Documentary | Getty Images After being hobbled by the pandemic recession, real estate investment trusts are rebounding rapidly, and the economic recovery isn’t the only thing driving growth this year. Share prices are rising from demand

Nova Scotia—Concierge Auctions, the largest luxury real estate auction marketplace in the world, will bring Whaleback Estate to auction on August 26, via the firm’s digital marketplace. According to listing agents Mariana Cowan and Ian Smith, the team opted to bring the 6,790-square-foot estate to auction because “the format drives healthy competition…auctions are used for virtually

Kseniya Ragozina | Getty Images Small investors who might not have the funds – or the stomach to be landlords – have a new option to get in on the lucrative single-family rental market. Fundrise, which started in 2012 as a crowdfunding platform for commercial real estate, is broadening its scope to single-family rental homes.

While there will hopefully be many lessons learned from this pandemic—how to make a sourdough starter, how to keep houseplants alive, how to practice gratitude—none is perhaps more important than how to take care of one’s mental and physical health. Maintaining mental and physical wellness can be done in a variety of ways—anything from meditation

In this article MGP VICI MGM Resorts International President and CEO Bill Hornbuckle is interviewed during the launch of the 100-megawatt MGM Resorts Mega Solar Array, the hospitality industry’s largest directly sourced renewable electricity project in the world on June 28, 2021 in Dry Lake Valley, Nevada. Gabe Ginsberg | Getty Images Real estate investment

City Developments—controlled by billionaire Kwek Leng Beng—said Friday the property developer will report further losses in the first half this year amid the lingering impact Covid-19 lockdowns and financial troubles at Chinese subsidiary Sincere Property Group. “Though signs of improvement are evident across the group’s business segments, the prolonged Covid-19 pandemic has led to the

More than 11 million Americans continue to report being behind on their rent. How much renters owe varies greatly from one state and county to the next, according to data provided to CNBC by Surgo Ventures, a nonprofit organization focusing on health and data. Across the country, the average renter in arrears owes $3,700. The

Cofounder of InstaLend, a non-bank real estate lender providing loans on single-family and multi-family properties for acquisition and rehab. When you’re applying to a real estate lender for your first fix and flip loan, there’s a lot to keep track of. While you might have gone through a lending process when you purchased the home you

In this article GOOGL Google is asking the city for feedback on its early plans to transform a Silicon Valley office site with “sustainability” features. City of San Jose filings Google is planning yet another Silicon Valley campus, which will sit adjacent to a new center partly devoted to hardware, according to preliminary plans obtained

An unprepossessing two-story building with a gambrel roof along the side of a road in Muscle Shoals, Alabama houses FAME Recording Studios (short for Florence Alabama Music Enterprises.) Erected in 1961 from the proceeds of the company’s first hit, You Better Move On, the ordinary building has had an extraordinary effect on the music world. The

Lucy Nicholson | Reuters The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday released a new federal eviction moratorium, just days after the previous ban expired on July 31. The new rules bought more time for some, but not all, of the millions of renters facing eviction. It’s also increased confusion for many in danger

Kyle Crown is the President of Crown Commercial PM. He holds a B.S. in business from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. I’m in the habit of writing long article introductions, but sometimes the best way to share advice with colleagues is simply to say, “Here are some things I do that I think you should

Richard Stephen | iStock | Getty Images Leopold broke down his bed and his children’s bunk beds and packed up his belongings, preparing for himself, his wife and their six children to become homeless. “I was trembling,” said Leopold, who asked to use his first name only because of the stigma attached to eviction. “But