Shiatzy Chen is coming back to China. The original luxury label, known for its modern Chinese style, showed off a huge collection in Beijing in June, after eight years of catwalk limelight in Paris. Showing her stuff to the folks at home. Jade Bracelet …

Indeed, with few exceptions, such as designer Michael Kors Holdings Ltd., retailers from discount to the luxury end have raised concerns about consumer resilience. On Thursday, Costco Wholesale … Echoing the pickup in broader home-furnishings …

If you were stranded on a desert island which two luxury items would you take? A translation of Hans-Urs Von Balthasar's Theo-Drama trilogy – the solitude would help me start to unpick it – and some music. I'm something of an early music head, so …

"Consumption has gotten better on spending on some luxury items, but things will really take off when a rise in disposable income starts a virtuous cycle of consumption," said Sei Sugimoto, who oversees ¥6.6 trillion ($68.6 billion) in assets as head …

As a consumer, online-native luxury brands mess with my feelings. On the one hand I tell myself, “Hey, I'm a modern woman. I believe in the power of minimizing overhead!” But when push comes to shove, I want to feel the quality of that leather or wool …

Between 2011 and 2012, high–end flipping soared 456 percent in Phoenix (150 properties from 27); 867 percent in Orlando (29 homes from 3); and to 73 properties from 10 in Las Vegas, according to RealtyTrac. To qualify as a flip for the figures, a home …

In the case of the five super-high–end developments, real estate industry executives at the very least appeared to have underestimated the backlash from a bill passed in Albany in January carving out tax breaks for the projects. Now the five developers …

American Homes 4 Rent, the California-based real estate investment trust founded by self-storage billionaire Wayne Hughes, spent $US3.3 billion, on more than 19,000 houses. "These Wall Street guys employed huge dollars," Brzeski said. "These firms came …

It's also a functionality of market prices, we have to observe and we have to face reality that in the competitive landscape we have right now, market prices have been driven down substantially and this is because of the temporary weakness of our …