Real Estate/Property

The biggest U.S. companies are sitting on record piles of cash. They are getting paid next to nothing for holding it, and they are running out of ways to spend it.So they are buying a lot of…

You can now sell your home online as quickly as you can sell a pair of shoes on eBay or Poshmark. But what is the return policy? The pandemic bolstered already popular…

A few years ago, Kevin Paffrath, a 29-year-old real-estate broker and father of two who lives in Ventura, Calif., earned most of his income from commissions on home sales, and kept…

When Peter Van Deerlin got his first electric vehicle in 2012, the now 57-year-old doctor wanted to be able to charge his car quickly enough to get to the hospital for…

Amazon.com Inc. plans to open several large physical retail locations in the U.S. that will operate akin to department stores, a step to help the tech company extend its reach in…

Before there was Instagram, there was “MTV Cribs.” These days, the internet is crowded with photos of pajama-clad celebrities lounging in their bedrooms. But when “Cribs”…

The owner of Saks Fifth Avenue is converting parts of department stores into co-working spaces with WeWork, a strategy that marries the popularity of remote work with the struggles…

Shared office space giant WeWork and Cushman & Wakefield PLC, one of the world’s largest commercial real-estate firms, are negotiating to form a $150 million partnership to…

Home Depot Inc. is doubling down on cloud computing, as it looks to expand the array of digital tools that helped it capture rocketing demand from both…

A startup is attempting to create something that U.S. real-estate executives say doesn’t exist in their industry today: a public company that owns only one property.The prospective property…