New York Fed board member warns of commercial real-estate risks

NEW YORK, March 24 (Reuters) – An executive who also serves on the board overseeing the New York Federal Reserve warned on Twitter of potentially systemic problems in the real estate finance market and called on the industry to work

Commercial real estate is in trouble. A bank crisis makes it worse.

If there is anything commercial real estate owners don’t need right now, it’s a banking crisis.

Big owners of property around the country were already under pressure from the Federal Reserve’s aggressive campaign to raise interest rates, which raised borrowing

LACKIE: The real estate market is rallying but why?

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A few weeks back, I went out on

Widow’s battle to resell burial space underscores Metro Vancouver’s real estate crunch

A little more than 25 years ago, John Douglas Carnahan bought the rights to two burial plots in the northeast corner of a hilly cemetery in a dense area of Burnaby, B.C. 

Back then, they cost $750 each. 

As years

Super-wealthy real estate buyers are back on the prowl

1318 Minto Cres., a 10,000-square-foot home on a roughly 27,000-square-foot lot, is listed for sale at $24.8-million.Christie’s International Real Estate

Vancouver’s super high-end buyers, not your random millionaires – but your centi-millionaire types – appear to be out of

Toronto laneway sparks historical real estate drama

A forgotten sliver of land owned by a long-dead prominent Upper Canadian throws wrench in developer’s plans

Mortgage rates continue to melt as economists dream of a real estate ‘rebound’ in spring

Homebuyers jump on chance to ‘lock in a good deal now’: Mortgage rates continue to melt as economists dream of a real estate ‘rebound’ in spring

Mortgage rates are still falling as the Fed announced another quarter-point rate hike last

Real estate agents and insiders expose the secret tactics used to lure buyers and sellers

If you are fortunate enough to try to enter Australia’s property market, you have come across its gatekeepers – real estate agents.

You may have suspected price guides were being lowballed, been promised the world by an agent, or felt

What will end up in the Eaton Centre space after Nordstrom leaves?

For nearly five decades, the Toronto Eaton Centre has been anchored by a department store or clothing retailer. Could a water park, cluster of restaurants or conference centre be next?

With Nordstrom’s announcement last week that it’s pulling out of

This Week’s Top Stories: Canadian Real Estate Rules The Underground Economy, & Delinquencies Rise

Time for your cheat sheet on this week’s top stories.

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Canada’s Real Estate Bubble Is Even Consuming Its Underground Economy

One unfortunate consequence of a real estate bubble is the concentration of capital. As people spend more