Today, first-time home buyers in once-affordable markets have competition from all kinds of sources that didn’t exist a generation ago: from global capital, from all-cash “iBuyers” that size up homes […]
Renting and Leasing (Real Estate)
Trending topics and news from the Renting and Leasing (Real Estate) category
Back to news homeIt’s Been a Home for Decades, but Legal Only a Few Months
As a designer who specializes in residential structures, Luis Martinez has lived this at home, and has now made it his career. His design business, Studioo15, has surged over the […]
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 […]
Rising Rents Stoke Inflation Data, a Concern for Washington
The recovery in the New York area as a whole has been uneven as some families have moved to the city, bidding up prices, while others are struggling to pay, […]
As Big Tech Grows in the Pandemic, Seattle Grows With It
There is also a “desire to improve diversity,” he said, by establishing a presence in cities, like Atlanta, Miami and Washington, that have large populations of Black and Hispanic people, […]
Always Pay the Rent? It May Help Your Mortgage Application.
“While credit history is a key element in evaluating a borrower’s ability to make a mortgage payment, building credit in the United States is not an equitable endeavor,” said Hugh […]
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 […]
Delta Variant Casts a Shadow Over Midtown Manhattan’s Shaky Recovery
Midtown Manhattan, which has been in the doldrums for much of the pandemic, has finally begun showing signs of life. But that progress may be threatened by the surge in […]
The Stigma of a Scarlet E
The apartment was just what Chanque Jones needed: four bedrooms, and $500 cheaper than the run-down house she had been renting back in Chicago. It was a fresh start for […]
Why Do We Make Things So Hard for Renters?
For struggling homeowners in the pandemic’s first year, there was hope early on that these hard times would not put people with mortgages out in the street.Thanks to quick governmental […]