Real Estate

Investors can expect to see “decent” returns on home improvement stocks despite waning consumer sentiment in housing, analyst Alvaro Lacayo told CNBC on Thursday. “If you look at the average age of the U.S. housing stock you’re talking about 40 years plus,” the vice president of equity research at G.research said on “Power Lunch.” G.research

Final preparations for Super Bowl LIII are wrapping up in and around Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, home for the Atlanta Falcons.Gene Phillips As the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams prepare to face off Feb. 3 in Atlanta for Super Bowl LIII, short-term rental hosts in the metro area are gearing up for a

This earnings season is far enough along that investors can start making judgments about which stock market sectors are on the rise and which ones could see weakness in the better part of 2019, says CNBC’s Jim Cramer. “We need to be on the lookout for themes that are working in spite of the litany

Ever wish you could get away from it all? This four-story, 22-room, 8,000-square-foot castle for sale for $900,000 in the Nevada desert is one solution. “In a lot of ways, it’s a ‘doomsday prepper’ dream home…extremely self-sustaining, secure and — admittedly — quite odd,” Jake Rasmuson, who is marketing the property, tells CNBC Make It.

Henry Kravis’ $46 million Colorado ranchHall and Hall Private equity king Henry Kravis’ $46 million White River Valley Colorado ranch, “Westlands,” is up for sale. Kravis who ranks at 107 on the Forbes 400  and number 365 on Forbes’ Billionaire list has owned the 4600 plus acre ranch since 1991. Located a few hours from

Virtual reality has been around for a long time. It’s been used commercially by large aerospace and automotive organizations in CAVEs and powerwalls for over 30 years. Now, as VR is becoming more accessible and reliable, it is being rapidly adopted across a whole range of industries, from architecture to tourism. With VR, architects can

Chinese authorities face an ever-growing list of challenges — be it an ongoing trade fight with the U.S. or headwinds in domestic demand — and it appears they don’t have many tools left to spur the economy amid a slowdown. The real estate market in China has traditionally played a major role in it’s economic

Tidying Up With Marie Kondo.Netflix If you can’t open up your dresser without asking yourself if those old tube socks “spark joy,” you’ve probably already binged watched Netflix’s Tidying Up With Marie Kondo. Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing hit the shelves in 2014. Since then,

Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin closed a deal to buy the most expensive home ever sold in the U.S., paying around $238 million for a New York penthouse overlooking Central Park. The deal is the largest in Griffin’s recent $700 million, global real estate shopping spree, believed to be the largest ever for a U.S.

Lunchtime at TechHubTechHub Last night, I attended a very insightful real estate predictions panel event, hosted by Dentons. The panelists (PfP Capital’s BTR fund director Alex Notay, Hermes’ Head of Private Markets Chris Taylor, Fenwicks Property Director Jeremy Collins and IPF Chair and LaSalle IM’s Philip Nell) discussed their thoughts on the outlook for the

After two weeks of sizable gains, mortgage demand cooled last week. Total application volume fell 2.7 percent compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. Volume was 3.3 percent higher than a year ago. Refinances, which are highly sensitive to weekly interest rate moves, pulled the volume lower. Applications

GettyGetty An Elliman quarterly report was recently published and it contains some shocking statistics about where the Manhattan residential real estate markets currently stands — and, more importantly, where it’s headed. Within the report I found five jaw-dropping statistics I believe all well-informed investors and buyers ought to know. Spoiler alert: Today, Manhattan is truly a buyers’ market,

Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin has just smashed another real estate price record, buying the most expensive home sold in London in over a decade for $122 million. Griffin, the CEO and founder of Citadel, bought a famed mansion near Buckingham Palace that was once home to Charles de Gaulle, according to a company spokesperson.

The slowdown in home sales and home price gains in most major U.S. markets is causing the opposite effect in the rental market, especially for single-family rental homes. Home prices logged a 5.1 percent annual gain in November, the smallest gain since August 2015. If fewer people are buying homes, especially first-time buyers, then they

6 Tips for First Time Home Buyers. What you really need to know before buying a house.Getty Buying a home will likely be the biggest purchase you make in your life. At least until you buy your second, more expensive home. Recently, the real estate market has appeared to be cooling. All the same, home

Hannah Strasser’s home in Indiana. Having a backyard was important in her home-buying decision.Hannah Strasser What do Hannah, Austin, Alexis, Logan and Taylor have in common? They were the top five names associated with the fastest levels of home sales growth in 2018. The number crunchers at realtor.com studied deed records to come up with

2 Hours Ago Microsoft President and chief legal officer Brad Smith joins CNBC’s “Closing Bell” to discuss Microsoft pledge of $500 million to tackle Seattle’s housing crisis. The pledge is the largest in the company’s 44-year history, and, according to the company, is one of the heftiest contributions by a private corporation to housing. The

Henry Sy, chairman emeritus of SM Investments, one of the Philippines’ largest conglomerates, died Saturday morning, according to a statement from SM. Sy had topped the Philippines Rich List for eleven years in a row. His net worth was estimated at $19 billion at the time of his passing, making him the 53rd wealthiest person in

With the government shutdown now in its fourth week, banks and credit unions are ramping up help to federal workers. Some 420,000 employees are considered “essential,” and are working without pay, while an estimated 380,000 others have been ordered to stay home. Colorado’s Alpine Bank has set aside $5 million to help furloughed workers. If

U.S tennis players and sister’s Venus, and Serena Williams, right, arrive for the Pre-Wimbledon Party, at Kensington Roof Gardens in west London, Thursday June 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)ASSOCIATED PRESS The co-owned, custom-built, dual-master wing and 3-security gate protected home belonging to tennis greats Venus and Serena Williams is now on the market for $2.695

The presidency of Donald Trump has indirectly helped the real estate market in South Florida, Miami property magnate Gil Dezer told CNBC on Thursday. Dezer, who runs his billionaire family’s real estate empire, said prices of his firm’s Trump-branded properties in Florida have been pumped up by the president’s popularity there. “We shouldn’t forget that

GettyGetty As entrepreneurs and small business owners, we dream of our business ideas taking off. As real estate agents and broker-owners, we wear multiple hats on a daily basis. Sometimes we have so many tasks to do each day to make things happen that when our idea does take off, we no longer know our

Student loan debt is putting a dent in young people’s pockets that is contributing to a much lower level of home ownership over the past decade. Federal Reserve economists studied the impact that the $1.5 trillion in educated-related loans is having on those aged 24 to 32. They found that while it is not the

GettyGetty In a market that’s growing by the minute, landlords need to make the most of their properties to stand out from the crowd. True property optimization — minimizing costs while improving performance and increasing ROI — is still the name of the game for landlords across the U.S.. As both a landlord and a

Mortgage demand continues to recover sharply, after ending last year in the basement. Total mortgage application volume rose 13.5 percent last week, compared with the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. That is its highest level since February 2018 and came after a 23 percent jump the previous week. Volume

We all know about the malware attacks on Iranian nuclear plants and Ukrainian power grids, but what if the next target was your ‘smart’ home, office, school or hospital? Researchers at enterprise security vendor ForeScout have warned that malware specifically targeting smart buildings is an inevitable next step given the rapidly expanding attack surface that

Chinese foreign direct investment into the U.S. plummeted for a second year in a row, according to new data. In 2018, Chinese FDI in the United States fell to just $4.8 billion — a massive decline from $29 billion in 2017 and $46 billion in 2016, according to independent researcher the Rhodium Group. The 2018

Business dividends grow. Young businessman, shareholder standing at green and gold money tree, gathering company earnings and good corporate profit. Vector flat style cartoon illustrationGetty There’s intense market volatility. And then there’s real estate investment trusts (REITs) and dividend growth. Out of those possibilities, which do you think is making the most headlines? If you

Major Asian real estate developer CapitaLand said on Monday it has entered into an agreement to buy two wholly owned units from Ascendas-Singbridge, a subsidiary of Singapore state investment firm Temasek, in a cash and stock deal. If the deal is approved, the new entity would become Asia’s largest diversified real estate group, according to

In December 2018, Amazon made its long-awaited announcement of where its second headquarters location would be. Much to the competing cities’ surprise, the e-commerce giant chose to split “HQ2” between Long Island City, New York and Arlington, Virginia. Since the announcement, there’s been much speculation about the impact on the real estate and job markets