By Seattle Times business reporter A New York-based real estate firm with a significant presence in Seattle is cutting jobs as the housing market cools.  The brokerage Compass is laying off 84 Washington employees, plus another 187 remote workers spread across the country, according to the company and a notice […]

(Photo Illustration by The Real Deal with Getty Images and Americasroof at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 – via Wikimedia Commons) The turmoil in China’s real estate market is reaching the United States by way of foreign firms based in the global power retreating from commercial real estate. Chinese firms […]

Queen Elizabeth (Photo Illustration by Steven Dilakian for The Real Deal with Getty Images) Long live the Queen — or at least her real estate holdings. Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, died Sept. 8 at the age of 96 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, one of several royal residences spread […]

CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday offered investors a list of five real estate investment trusts they should consider adding to their portfolios. “While most retail stocks are horrible right now … the companies that own the best retail real estate are doing just fine,” he said. Here is his list […]

There’s a term for spending tortured hours browsing Zillow, fantasizing about houses you can never afford in places remotely distant from your own tax bracket: real estate porn. The masturbatory practice has only gotten more popular in the last few years, as the economy crashed and people fled (even if […]

Welcome back to the Real Estate newsletter. My coverage typically takes you inside of L.A.’s finest properties, but this week, we’re taking a trip beneath them. Do you know what lies below your home? Kyle Tourje probably does. He’s a structural assessor with Alpha Structural, and he spends his career […]

Americans are becoming increasingly pessimistic about the US real estate market.  Sellers are holding out amid stalled prices, while mortgage rates have put many buyers’ plans on pause. The Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index fell for the six consecutive month in August. Loading Something is loading. The real estate […]