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All That Empty Office Space Belongs to Someone

At an office in SoHo, rows of desks sit empty, while a shaggy dog — shadowing an owner nostalgic for work-from-home comforts — wanders the conference rooms. At a tech […]




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WeWork Faces More Turmoil After Its CEO Departs

Sandeep Mathrani was supposed to be WeWork’s savior.A real estate executive, he became the chief executive of the troubled office space company in 2020 after a failed initial public offering […]




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Stress Builds as Office Building Owners and Lenders Haggle Over Debt

A real estate investment fund recently defaulted on $750 million of mortgages for two Los Angeles skyscrapers. A private equity firm slashed the value of its investment in the Willis […]




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Inflation Has Hit Tenants Hard. What About Their Landlords?

Geography also matters. Even among the largest landlords, those with a presence in Sun Belt cities such as Miami, Tampa, Nashville and Phoenix saw far faster rent growth than high-cost […]




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In Bronx Housing Court, Tenants Fight to Stay in Their Homes

Rocio Quero Yescas is 56 and walks with a cane, and she fears she will trip and fall because the floor tiles in her apartment keep peeling up.Kenya Whitt, a […]




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Start-Ups Flock to WeWork, Trellis and Other Low-Commitment Spaces

When Melissa Pancoast moved her financial literacy start-up, The Beans, into a WeWork office in San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower last May, most of the offices around her were rented out […]




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WeWork Goes Public Two Years After Aborted I.P.O.

“I made a wrong decision,” Masayoshi Son, SoftBank’s chief executive, said last year. “I didn’t look at WeWork right.” SoftBank has agreed to cap its voting power in the company […]




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Why $46 Billion Couldn’t Prevent an Eviction Crisis

Over the past several months, the White House and Treasury Department have been racing to deal with the program’s problems, repeatedly revising guidelines to allow tenants to receive payouts with […]







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Eviction Moratorium Set to Lapse as Biden Aid Effort Falters

The lapse of the federal freeze is offset by other pro-tenant initiatives that are still in place. Many states and localities, including New York and California, have extended their own […]