“Access to finance at the high end of the market has improved recently, with more lenders offering jumbo loans,” said Orr, director of the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice at the W. P. Carey School. “Along with good returns from the stock …

Over the long term, REITs and real estate have a very similar return profile, but REITs have higher volatility because they're priced on a daily basis. But volatility has nothing to do … Mr. Halle: I still like high–end retail malls. I think the lack …

Seaward Development LLC's purchase of a 1.12-acre parcel at 129 Taft Drive earlier this month marks the latest in a series of high–end real estate transactions that appear to have shortchanged the documentary stamp taxes that help fund court systems in …

… at the end of the month. True, certain branded cell phones are still offered at relatively high prices, from Rp 5 million to Rp 10 million ($475-$900), but many generic brands are available for only a few hundred thousand rupiah. Besides the …

EzyFlix aims to be device-agnostic, although in return you might find it more cumbersome than the offerings designed for your gadgets of choice. It's great …. It's true that iTunes is a secure ecosystem which enforces DRM, but EzyFlix locks you into …

Nvidia went a little outside of its comfort zone when it built the Shield, a portable gaming device based on essentially stock Android with an integrated hardware controller. I wasn't sure what to make of it when it was announced: Was it a reference …

Shipments of gadgets that are 5 inches or bigger in screen size are predicted to surge nearly nine-fold to 228 million during the next three years. Estimates … Apple, by contrast, has been releasing one model a year that targets high–end consumers. A …

Those fears are probably being fuelled by the apparent death-spiral of the once iconic smartphone maker BlackBerry, which in a few short years has gone from making the world's must-have gadget to looking for a buyer or a partner to help stem its rapid …

Bottom line: affluent societies procreate increasingly self-indulgent citizens who are unable or unwilling to regenerate themselves. … (where they usually don't pay taxes due to umpteen loopholes for the wealthy) or sliding downhill into subsistence …