asked Heidi Learner, chief economist with real estate services firm Studley. The Bloomberg administration made concerted efforts to foster the economic development of the tech and film industries, both of which offer higher-paying jobs, and to embolden …

Starting with the end of the Middle Ages, however, we find ḥaga connected with ḥag, the biblical and rabbinic word for a Jewish feast day, which refers in modern Hebrew to a holiday of any sort. The earliest documented instance of this is in a work by …

A wave of million-dollar home sales at the end of the year helped make 2013 one of the best years for luxury real estate in central Ohio. A record 10 homes sold in the Columbus area for more than $2 million last year. The homes boast a range of …

Jersey City properties in which Guarini is a part-owner include the Monaco Towers and Marabella luxury apartment buildings on Washington Boulevard; Columbus Towers near the Grove Street PATH Station; Portofino, a 26-story condo complex on the …

A year ago, at the end of December 2012, we saw far fewer "For Sale" signs. And this year, there are even fewer. The surprising thing about the real estate market is its resiliency. It never fails to surprise how decisively a market turns. When it's …

Father and son real estate developers Michael and Gil Dezer are very happy these days. In October they received a US$214 million construction loan from the Wells Fargo Bank for a new 60-storey luxury condominium building they are building in Sunny …

Investors commonly assume that rising interest rates adversely impact the gold price. The intuition is that if interest rates rise, this makes gold less appealing to own than interest-bearing assets. Such reasoning prompted Dominic Schnider to tell …

JIM Jarvis doubled the advice offered by vets and came out a big winner when Plateau Gold became yet another upset winner of the Bat Out Of Hell yesterday. Plateau Gold was a heavily backed Doomben winner in September 2012, but came out of the race …

But Central West Gold (CWG) managed to pull something out of left field during the week. That something was toxic waste treatment in China, the junior announcing it was investigating a change of direction into toxic waste technology, the potential …