Real estate

Apartment buildings on the Upper East Side neighborhood of New York.Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesManhattan rents hit their highest level ever for a December as the supply of apartments plummeted and landlords started…

Shares of Country Garden Holdings Co. 2007, -12.93% fell Wednesday, after the property developer said it is planning to launch a second share placement in as many months to refinance its offshore…

Home sales in the United States declined for the ninth month in a row in October as surging mortgage rates and high prices pushed buyers out of the market. Sales of existing homes — which include…

The German housing market has been remarkably strong in the last couple of decades, but it faces a serious price correction in the next couple of years, according to some analysts.Tim Graham / Contributor / Getty ImagesThe German housing…

View of the Hong Kong skyline from Hong Kong Island.Ingo Schulz | imageBROKER | Getty ImagesPrices of Hong Kong's residential properties plunged to a near five-year low as rising interest rates and a mass exodus of expat workers drove…

Inflation is running hot in virtually every corner of the country. But in America’s top housing markets for migrants, consumer prices are soaring at an even faster rate. A new report from Redfin RDFN,…

Wall Street is on a five-day losing streak. The decline, as measured by the S&P 500 SPX, -0.19%, of 3.6% is not that great, but it seems depressingly inevitable once the benchmark again failed to hold above…

Don’t get mad at Thanksgiving dinner. Get tips on how to navigate inflation.The midterms are over, so perhaps it’s time to shelve political talk — especially if your dinner table is composed of family members from opposite sides of the…

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose Monday as bond yields rose and oil prices climbed to their highest level in three years.   Rising Treasury yields—the 10-year has ticked up to 1.48%—help explain the divergence. Last week, the…

Build it and they will come? Investors looking for upside in one of the world’s best performing markets so far this year, should be looking at constructions stocks, says HSBC. That star index, the FTSE 100…