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A bright idea
Ashoff manufactures fluorescent lamps with motion sensors. He designed it to replace bulbs in building stairwells which burn around the clock, and found that...
More Americans living in others’ homes
The number of so-called missing households—representing adults who would be owning or renting their own home if household formation had stayed at normal rates...
Making hay while the sun shines
"The economy appears to be on a path of sustainable growth. U.S. businesses have healthy balance sheets and plenty of liquidity-consumer debt has declined...
Lean into it
American optimism lives, though scuffed. The latest Gallup Poll shows an uptick in the Economic Confidence Index, after a six-week "morose." Pundits caution that...
Apartment mortgages late but improving
The delinquency rate for mortgage loans on residential properties increased to a seasonally adjusted rate of 7.25 percent in 2013 Q1, an increase of...
Big deal in the Big Apple
The city has taken its first step toward what may be a wave of new development on Halletts Point peninsula, a long-neglected area south...
Hitting the brakes
Hundreds of thousands of units are on the verge of being complete, prices in the housing market are improving and the economy is doing...
Buffet pivots
The commercial mortgage originator and servicer plans to expand its financing of offices, retail properties and hotels, said Hugh Frater, Berkadia's CEO. The bulk...
When something’s just not right
The problem these developers face is another type of shortage; finding qualified manpower. Like many of those in the trades, construction managers and designers...
Alliance fires it up
The company's fee management business is keeping pace with its development growth, closing out 2012 at 58,000 units. "Today we are at 68,000 units, so...
Adapt and reuse
Adaptive reuse has gained favor as Americans continue to migrate from the suburbs to redeveloped city downtowns and close-in townships along mass transit lines...
American revival and the miserables
She said that reminding herself of others' woes made her feel less overwhelmed, even fortunate. Let me get this straight. When she couldn't change the facts...
Little size. Little stuff. Big price. The LifeEdited apartment.
"I have come a long way from the life I had in the late 90s, when, flush with cash from an Internet start-up sale,...
Why renters are still driving America’s building boom
As America's housing market slowly heals, good news is pouring in from homebuilders: They're building more; they're hiring more workers; they're building bigger houses. Still,...
Large-scale investors push boom in single-family home rentals
Could they provide a form of safe harbor or sanctuary for thousands of families who were displaced by financial difficulties from their previous homes...
