Commercial Real Estate

A Federal Reserve bank president who has been warning about prices rising too high in the commercial real-estate market has a new source of concern: co-working.

How have some of WeWork’s competitors been raising money and expanding in big cities? By persuading investors and clients how different they are from WeWork.

Commercial-property prices in major cities around the world tumbled in the second quarter, amid signs of slower global growth and heightened trade tension between China and the U.S.

Arya Group’s Ardie Tavangarian made the decision to let go of his 25,000-square-foot Bel-Air home when the project grew more elaborate and expensive.

Home-builder shares soared during the first half of 2019 with help from falling interest rates, but some analysts warn that slowing home sales and a tight labor market could weigh on these companies in the second half.

Foreign investors are starting to buy commercial real estate in China again, shrugging off frothy prices and the trade dispute with the U.S. while focusing on China’s maturing domestic market and longer-term growth prospects.

Real-estate investment trusts have become a key source of capital in the housing market, especially as the government’s role in the market shrinks.

Property investors around the globe have been bidding up the price of Manhattan office towers for years. Now, the stock market is signaling that values have gotten too high.

Many investors are turning to real-estate stocks as a haven during the U.S.-China trade dispute that has been whipsawing the stock market.

Rapid growth of big technology companies is pushing demand for San Francisco office space to new heights, leading firms to go to unusual extremes to grab workspace.

Big apartment owners are forecast to post strong earnings when they start reporting this week, but a number of state-sponsored rent-control measures are starting to raise longer-term concerns.

Private-equity firm Blackstone is exploring a sale of the Cosmopolitan hotel and casino in Las Vegas, the only major operating casino on the Strip to hit the market in more than a decade.

Uncertainty over Brexit is spilling into the commercial real-estate market in Northern Ireland, which looks especially vulnerable to an adverse outcome of the U.K.’s exit negotiations with the European Union.

As New York real-estate prices continue to climb, some small-business owners are deciding that cheaper space is worth the move or commute to northern New Jersey.

Spotlight: U.S. Diversified Real Estate ETF focuses on the location of the properties held by the REITs it invests in.

Wealthy homeowners won’t be the only ones to feel the pinch of New York City’s new real-estate tax law. Many of the city’s biggest property developers will be hit, too.

Shares of home-building companies are on pace for their best quarter in seven years as a drop in mortgage rates has given home buyers a reprieve.

Jones Lang LaSalle, one of the world’s largest commercial real-estate services firms, said it would pay about $2 billion for rival HFF.

Real-estate startups are tweaking their original business models in hopes of boosting revenue and creating new opportunities.