Text size Uncredited It’s another busy week of fourth-quarter earnings reports, with close to 60 S&P 500 components scheduled to present to investors. Advance Auto Parts and Vornado Realty Trust w...
Tag: Real estate
Zillow Is Betting on a Housing Super App. What Wall Street Thinks.
Text size Zillow Group announced plans to shut down its home-flipping business in November. Chris Goodney/Bloomberg Zillow ‘s spectacular decision to shut down its home-flipping business last year has...
Oil is the hottest sector, and Wall Street analysts see upside of up to 48% for favored stocks
Energy is the best-performing stock-market sector this year. Given today’s strong economic growth and inflation, many believe oil prices could remain at current levels for years or maybe even move hig...
‘I don’t know if it’s worth dealing with tenants’: Should I convert my home into a rental, or sell it?
I have enough money to put down on a second home — I need a slightly bigger place and another bedroom. I currently live in Portland, Ore., but I am planning to move outside of Portland. However, I’m c...
Homebuyer demand for mortgages drops 10%
A sign advertising an open house in Corona Del Mar, California. Scott Mlyn | CNBC Mortgage rates have been rising since the start of the year, but buyers at first seemed unfazed, some even rushing to ...
5 popular financial rules you might want to ditch
Traditional financial advice like the kind you got from your parents is often true but even experienced investors might rely on maxims that are outdated and no longer serving your financial well-being...
London’s mayor Sadiq Khan calls for register of foreign-owned property
Luxury residential townhouses stand overlooking Regents Park in London, U.K., on Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. U.K. house prices increased at their fastest pace in more than a year in November, according to ...
Opinion: Should you add residential real estate to your retirement portfolio?
Is there a way to invest in residential real estate as an asset class? It’s a timely question since, as I pointed out last week, residential real estate can play an important role in reducing the prob...
This way of picking value stocks has actually worked — and Berkshire Hathaway screens the best
Amazon.com’s earnings surprise is the story of the day, pushing even the jobs report into second billing. More on that in a second. But the broader story of the markets is unchanged. Interest rates ar...
Forget About Inflation. Contrarians Expect a Recession and a Drop in Bond Yields.
“Something that everyone knows isn’t worth knowing,” as the famed financier Bernard Baruch once observed. And so I was reminded by a long discourse in the New York Times this past week on why bond yie...
American Dream megamall nearly empties its reserves to make a bond payment
American Dream megamall and entertainment complex in East Rutherford, N.J. After more than 17 years in the making, it finally opened October 25, 2019. Then came the coronoavirus pandemic. Timothy A. C...
Bodegas look to zoning to defend against instant delivery rivals
A Gopuff location on the Lower East Side of Manhattan across from Stop 1 Deli. Jan. 12, 2022. Hannah Miao | CNBC Grocery delivery start-up Gopuff last fall moved into the ground-floor retail space of ...
Opinion: These 2 numbers sum up why the housing market won’t get back to normal for a long time
Last week I got a letter in the mail. Like you, I’m surprised this still exists as a practice but desperate times call for desperate measures: Courtesy Ben Carlson Now I would like to think our house ...
Borrowers rush to get the last of the low mortgage rates
A real estate agent stands in the doorway as Giovani and Nicole Quiroz of Brooklyn, New York visit an open house in West Hempstead, New York. Raychel Brightman | Newsday LLC | Newsday | Getty Images M...
Leadership of China’s Xi threatened by Covid, real-estate crisis
George Soros, billionaire founder of Soros Fund Management LLC, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2020. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chinese leader Xi Jinping&#...
How Suburban Sprawl’s Single-Family Home Zoning Limits Housing Supply
America’s suburbs are sprawling again. Last year, single family housing starts rose to 1.123 million, the highest since 2006, according to the National Association of Home Builders, however, opt...
Bears beware. Past corrections for the S&P 500 are only 15% on average, outside of recessions
Even after a rough January for Wall Street, it might take the U.S. economy slipping into a recession before the S&P 500 index risks entering a bear market, according to Oxford Economics. “Equities...
Citigroup’s new London HQ offers a view into flexible working future
Citigroup is offering its vision for the future of flexible work with the release of new plans to transform its London headquarters. The Wall Street bank is to overhaul its iconic Canary Wharf Citi To...
Evergrande Aims To Announce Restructuring Plan Within Six Months
The sale office in front of unfinished apartment buildings at the construction site of a China … [+] Evergrande Group development in Beijing, China, on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. (Photo by Andrea V...
Fed rate hikes are coming — how to tackle your savings, mortgage, car payments and credit-card debt in advance
Wall Street investors and Washington D.C. lawmakers are closely listening to what Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says Wednesday about the central bank’s next steps in its fight against decades...
6 Stocks for a 2022 of Higher Interest Rates and Slower Earnings Growth
Don’t let inflation fears dominate your investment thoughts. Save time to worry about earnings growth, too. Below, some statistical bellyaching and portfolio defeatism, plus one Wall Street bank’s top...