Blackstone Buys LaSalle Hotels for $3.7 Billion Cash
Just 3 days after realizing a $14 billion profit on the sale of its 5.8% stake in Hilton Worldwide Holdings, private equity firm Blackstone has […]
More CRE Executives Plan to Switch to Unassigned Seating
More than half of corporate execs say they plan to switch to unassigned worker seating for all or some of their employees during the next three years, […]
Real Estate Companies Report Strong Q1 2018 Earnings
Buyoed by a robust real estate market, corporate real estate giants reported strong earnings growth in Q1 2018, including higher brokerage commissions, fee income and […]
Mortgage Rates Jump to 4-Year High
Mortgage rates are back on the move. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to its highest level since January 2014 this week, also seeing its largest […]
New Study Finds the U.S. is Millions of Units Short on Housing
The U.S. fell 7.3 million units short of meeting housing demand between 2000 to 2015, according to new research from the Up for Growth National […]
Certified Appraisals No Longer Required for Commercial Deals Under $500K
An inter-agency group of regulators from the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) […]
20 Cities Where Home Ownership Costs Less than $1,000 a Month
With higher housing costs gripping several areas of the nation, there are still plenty of bargains to be had, according to a new study by GOBankingRates. Analyzing […]
Zillow Joins the Home Flipping Business
Zillow announced that it will start flipping homes in Phoenix and Las Vegas and that it is expanding its Instant Offers service, according to a […]
Real Estate Startup SquareFoot Raises $7 million to Help with Growth Plans
Commercial real estate technology startup SquareFoot announced that it successfully raised $7 million in a series A round of financing to accelerate expansion within New York City, […]
Housing Market Shows Resilience in Face of Supply Shortages & Rising Rates
Despite concerns that rising interest rates, inventory shortages and higher home prices may dampen demand for housing, the latest figures demonstrate that the nation’s real […]