Across China, many local governments are on the brink of insolvency. Some cities have reduced pay for civil servants. Cuts to municipal health insurance have triggered street protests.Central government bailouts […]
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Back to news homeHousing Market Gridlock: Buyers Are Eager, but Sellers Are Scarce
The housing market typically comes to life in spring, when buyers emerge in the warmer weather. This year, the market appears stuck in a deep freeze, and the biggest culprit […]
Where High Interest Rates Have Sent Home Prices Sliding
When Madeleine Eiswohld decided to move in with her boyfriend last year, she never expected to find it so difficult to sell her apartment. It’s a cozy studio, with lots […]
Will the Fed Keep Tightening as Banks Fail?
Quantitative tightening is supposed to be boring. That’s by design.It doesn’t demand attention like a bank failure, emergency government rescue, wildly fluctuating interest rates or uncomfortably high inflation.But it is […]
By Adding Apartments, Malls Seek to Bring Shopping Closer to Home
The Westlake Shopping Center, which opened in the 1950s in Daly City, Calif., is one of the first modern malls in the country. Over the past seven decades, it has […]
When It’s Easy to Be a Landlord, No One Wants to Sell
The offers came in and she agreed to sell it for $240,000, but when the negotiations dragged on she decided to walk away. And why not? Within weeks she had […]
This Is What It Looks Like to Try to Count America’s Homeless Population
Jobs in the Delta are scarce, government services are limited and the nonprofit infrastructure is thin, Ms. Maharrey said. The burden of helping the desperate falls largely to churches, neighbors […]
Falling Mortgage Rates Bring Some Home Buyers Back to Market
Earlier in the pandemic, when many urbanites were leaving New York to work remotely in far-flung locations, Molly Parker Wade instead moved from the West Coast to Brooklyn to be […]
How Real Estate Developers Are Teaming Up With Social Media Influencers
In May, the Waldorf brand invited Aysedeniz Gokcin, a Turkish pianist with 105,000 followers on Instagram, to come to New York and film herself playing Cole Porter’s historic original Steinway […]
What’s Behind All Those Tech Layoffs? A New Economic Reality
“High rates are painful for almost everyone, but they are particularly painful for Silicon Valley,” said Kairong Xiao, an associate professor of finance at Columbia Business School. “I expect more […]