Real Estate

On the coastlines of America, many home buyers are ignoring the new realities of storms and floods—and, in too many cases, the government isn't helping.

• By Sophie Yeo

Soaring commercial real estate prices are a sign of a thriving pot industry in Denver—but low-income communities of color are taking a disproportionate property-tax hit.

• By Charlotte West

Through shifting control of land use policy from local to regional governments, SB 827 wants to reduce the Golden State's cost of housing.

• By Issi Romem

As real estate building increases across the world, so too does the illegal extract of sand, which results in serious environmental impacts.

• By Alexandra Popescu

People around the U.S. are rediscovering their fondness for a classic architectural staple.

• By Lynn Freehill-Maye

In her new book, journalist Jessica Bruder argues that, in post-2008 America, the nostalgic vision of RVs and other "wheel estate" is incomplete.

• By Peter C. Baker

Tenants allege that a property management firm controlled by Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner's real-estate company has unjustly charged them fees and threatened eviction to make them pay up.

• By Alec MacGillis

These transactions illustrate the unique advantages that real estate developers like Trump have when passing down valuable assets between generations.

• By Derek Kravitz, Cezary Podkul & Will Parker

The protections stem from when Rudy Giuliani, together with the real-estate industry, maneuvered behind the scenes in 1995 to exempt downtown Manhattan apartments from rent stabilization rules.

• By Marcelo Rochabrun

Even a cursory look at the social, environmental, and economic impacts of working from home indicates that even more people could and should be.

• By Alana Massey

A metro only exists for those who can afford to commute.

• By Jim Russell

Regions where Millennials are renting don't look like where they will buy homes.

• By Jim Russell

In order for tech workers to cash out on home equity, Proposition 13 forces them to move to another state.

• By Jim Russell

The end result of an AirBnB'd neighborhood is not a profitable artist collective; it's an international bedroom community of "post-tourist" upwardly mobile workers.

• By Kyle Chayka

Pittsburgh is the best place in the United States to flip property. What explains the real estate boom?

• By Jim Russell

Rent control has long been criticized by economists, but the list of theoretical harms often aren't observable in reality. With a lack of serious public housing funding, the policy may be one of the best, and cheapest, ways to protect low-income families.

• By Jake Blumgart

A graduate student is giving French economist Thomas Piketty a run for his money while re-imagining the worst culprit of inequality.

• By Gregory Ferenstein

Property value displaces tuition as a revenue stream for higher education.

• By Jim Russell

An unusual lawsuit against M&T Bank draws on secret videotapes and recordings to argue that the bank’s loan officers discriminated against blacks, Latinos, and Asians who applied for mortgages.

• By Nikole Hannah-Jones

Separate a real estate market into two parts: investors and occupiers.

• By Jim Russell

The explosion of real estate investment start-ups gives us a peek into the dangers of peer-to-peering everything.

• By Susie Cagle

Prosecutors allege the state assembly speaker made changes to rent regulation on behalf of a developer.

• By Justin Elliott

Adding to racial redlining, zoning attempts to regulate human behavior, restricting residents just as it does developers.

• By Jim Russell

Los Angeles gave America the modern street gang. Groups like the Crips and MS-13 have spread from coast to coast, and even abroad. But on Southern California's streets they have been vanishing. Has L.A. figured out how to stop the epidemic it set loose on the world?

• By Sam Quinones