‘Home prices where I live are close to $600,000.’ Is it a smart move to buy a house with all-cash — or better to take out a mortgage?

Dear Big Move, I’ve recently been thinking about purchasing my first home at 35.  I have a nest egg of about $1.8 million that I’ve accrued over the past 14 years. This money is completely invested in...

Xintiandi Developer Shui On Sees Possible “Golden Era” After Profit Drops By 58% Amid Shanghai Lockdowns

Xintandi office buildings located in central Shanghai. (Photo by Ryan Pyle/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images Profit at Shui On Land, the Hong Kong-headquartered developer of Shanghai’s ...

Treat It As A Business

When it comes to real estate investing, the best adopt a business mindset. A business mindset is different. A business owner—as opposed to a hobbyist—focuses on growth. They set ambitious, but attaina...

Fed heroics or no, the S&P 500 level is destined for a retest of lows. These are the levels to watch, says this strategist

In the words of the great Bonnie Tyler: “He’s gotta be sure, and it’s gotta be soon, and he’s gotta be larger than life.” The hero this market is holding out for is Fed Chair Jerome Powell, and he’s t...

Airbnb Mogul Offers Insight Into How The Entertainment Industry And Others Affect The Airbnb Market

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – JULY 10: The gated entrance is closed to the Beverly House mansion of William … [+] Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies after the residence was put on the market this wee...

Snowflake Stock Soars. Sales Growth Crushed Estimates.

Text size Shares of Snowflake are down more than 50% this year. Dreamstime Snowflake shares soared in late trading Wednesday after the cloud-based data-warehousing company posted better-than-expected ...

Pending home sales drop 1% in July

A sign is posted in front of a home for sale on July 14, 2022 in Corte Madera, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Pending home sales, a measure of signed contracts on existing homes, slipped 1...

There’s a new supercycle emerging for the economy, and these are the stocks that would benefit, strategist says

It’s been an interesting summer for financial markets — more or less, a series of mostly downbeat economic data led traders to think the Fed will ease off the pedal, though over the last week they’re ...

Paying Dividends: Energy Companies Dominate Top-Yielding Stocks

Devon Energy is one of the top-yielding stocks in the S&P 500 index. Zeytun Images/Dreamstime.com Text size Energy companies dominate the top-yielding stocks in the S&P 500 index as more oil a...

Cities Should Welcome Tiny Homes As An Alternative To Homelessness

Chasidy Decker stands in front of her mobile tiny home in Meridian, Idaho. Institute for Justice In American communities where housing values are rapidly out-pacing wage growth, even people with good,...

Home prices fall for the first time in three years, biggest drop since 2011

An aerial view from a drone shows homes in a neighborhood on January 26, 2021 in Miramar, Florida. According to two separate indices existing home prices rose to the highest level in 6 years. Joe Raed...

Vacasa picks Rob Greyber, protege of Uber CEO, to be next chief executive

Anyaberkut | Istock | Getty Images As Vacasa works to grow its share in the vacation rental market, the property management company is tapping longtime travel executive Rob Greyber to be its next CEO....

Mortgage demand from first-time buyers makes a comeback

A real estate agent shows a home to a prospective buyer in Miami. Getty Images Mortgage demand continues to weaken, still right around a 22-year low, but there was a sign in the weekly numbers that fi...

Apartment rents are finally easing. Here’s how to play it

An Apartment For Rent sign seen in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Rent growth for apartments looks to have peaked after a tremendous run in 2021, and that could boost some of th...

Intel Scores $30 Billion Deal With Brookfield to Fund Chip Factories

Text size Intel’s deal with Brookfield will give it majority ownership of two new chip factories. Courtesy Intel Corporation Intel is turning to financial engineering to fund its chip-making amb...

$14.9 million palatial estate priced to break a local record in CT

Hidden behind a stone wall spanning 1,500 feet in one of Connecticut’s wealthiest neighborhoods is a palatial estate with a great room inspired by a Scottish castle. The brick-and-limestone resi...

Trump PAC paid lawyers almost $1 million amid Georgia, New York probes

Former President Donald Trump‘s political action committee, Save America, paid nearly $1 million to civil and criminal defense attorneys in July alone as investigations into him and the Trump Or...

These cannabis stocks could benefit from adult-use cannabis legalization in Germany

While it’s too early to predict winners and losers among U.S. and Canadian cannabis companies, some of these players are expected to see a boost in sales as Germany moves toward nationwide legalizatio...

Once offering the worst return on Wall Street, cash is now looking like the best asset to own, says Morgan Stanley

Stock sellers are ready to pick up where they left off on Friday, as the market appears to be is waking up from its August slumber with a vengeance. As Goldman Sach’s chief U.S. equity strategist Davi...

How New Media Is Changing The Way We Do Business

PARIS, FRANCE – OCTOBER 08: In this photo illustration, the social medias applications logos, … [+] Twitter, Google, Google+, Gmail, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat are displayed on the s...

Nvidia, Salesforce, Zoom, Macy’s, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Numerous technology and retail companies will report their latest quarterly results this week. Federal Reserve watchers will be tuning into the central bank’s annual confab in Jackson Hole, ...

WeWork founder Adam Neumann’s latest venture meets with social-media skepticism

It’s been either an ugly week or a fantastic week for WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann, depending on who’s doing the talking. For Neumann, his new residential real estate company called Flow drew a heft...

The Oil Surplus Could Persist. Expect Prices to Fall

Text size This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. Expect Oil Prices to Fall THINK Economic and Finan...

Nvidia, Salesforce, Zoom, Macy’s, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Numerous technology and retail companies will report their latest quarterly results this week. Federal Reserve watchers will be tuning into the central bank’s annual confab in Jackson Hole, ...

Disney, Salesforce, and 3 Other Stocks the Smart Money Bought Up

Text size Mickey Mouse, the mascot of Walt Disney. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Investors following the proverbial “smart money” have a gold mine of data, thanks to hedge funds’ second-quarter regulatory...

What Are the Best States for Retirement in 2022?

So many factors go into the decision of not only when and where to retire. Some people are limited by the places where their savings will stretch the farthest while others want to be by the sea at any...

Former WeWork CEO Neumann to launch digital wallet that stores crypto: Forbes

Flow, a new residential real-estate startup founded by former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann, is planning to launch a digital wallet that can store cryptocurrency, following an investment from Andreessen Hor...

Home sales fell nearly 6% in July as housing market slides into a recession

A sign is posted in front of a home for sale on July 14, 2022 in Corte Madera, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Sales of previously owned homes fell nearly 6% in July compared with June, acc...

July existing-home sales fall for the sixth straight month, realtors see ‘housing recession’

The numbers: U.S. existing-home sales fell 5.9% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.81 million in July, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. This is the sixth straight monthly de...

20 bank stocks expected to benefit the most from rising interest rates as the Federal Reserve fights inflation

When companies report financial results, analysts tend to make comparisons to the year-earlier quarter. But there are times when sequential improvements can be telling. This is one of those times for ...

Chinese property developers’ cash flows have plunged by more than 20%

Analysts generally expect state-owned enterprises will perform better than non-state-owned developers in the latest real estate slump. Pictured here in Guangxi, China, on Aug. 15, 2022, is a real esta...

Mortgage demand fell last week even as rates declined slightly

A For Sale sign is posted in front of a property in Monterey Park, California on August 16, 2022. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Mortgage rates fell slightly last week, but not enough to fuel ...