We hear so frequently about the players behind Manhattan’s billion-dollar real estate projects and how foreign investors are pouring a global vault’s worth of currency into New York City property, often shielded by LLCs. It’s illuminating to get a closer look at the city’s larger real estate landscape–one that has changed ... Read More »
Science teaches us a lot about the world, but sometimes it gives us more questions than answers. Our understanding of the natural world is filled with estimates, guesses, and predictions based on a shifting landscape of technology used to measure what’s around us. And as technology has changed, the definition ... Read More »
Long before anyone worried about drones crashing through the front window, winemaker Paul Masson built a chateau in the hills above Saratoga. Now it’s for sale. You can have it for $7 million — not bad in the Silicon Valley real estate market, where paying upwards of $5 million for ... Read More »
A change is coming at the end of the month in the way stock indexes are classified. Real estate, now part of the broader financials category, will go out on its own. But before you yawn and say that the change seems akin to moving the deck chairs around on ... Read More »
THE Bangladesh Bank heist in February this year really brought home the role of technology in committing fraud. Although the use of technology including malware to commit crime or fraud is not new, the case of Bangladesh Bank made people sit up because of the amount that was lost. US$101mil ... Read More »
WITH complaints from flat buyers against unfair practices by real estate firms piling up from across the state, a proposal to appoint multiple housing regulators is now under consideration, sources said. At last count, about 37,000 such cases were pending in the consumer redressal forum, official data shows. Mumbai, the ... Read More »
Brigade Group has announced the launch of its latest initiative – Brigade Real Estate Accelerator Program (REAP). A brainchild of Nirupa Shankar, Director, Brigade Hospitality, it is an organised approach to help build sustainable and scalable businesses in sectors relevant to real estate. According to a release from the Brigade ... Read More »
The implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations this year is going to bring cheer to various segments and one of the biggest beneficiaries is expected to be real estate. About Rs.1 lakh crore of money is being released as part of the hike in salaries and an additional amount ... Read More »
A new development by a few researchers confirms that a novel Wi-Fi technology has been tapped which can boast of three times the speeds as compared to present wireless networks. A team of researchers from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab have created a MegaMIMO technology that can ... Read More »
Some tech-savvy youngsters are helping New Jersey seniors cope with the rigors of new devices and technology. But when it comes to proper instruction, not all tutors are created equal. Frances Richardson got herself a brand new iPhone. “I wanted to be really hip,” she said. “I got the latest ... Read More »
The latest version is a redrawn plan after the critical citizen feedback received on the earlier draft plan last year. Though in conservative measure, and treading cautiously after the criticism of the last version, the plan has laid out several measures to increase the development potential of Mumbai. The Revised ... Read More »
Growth in overall health-care spending is slowing, but middle-class families’ share of the tab is getting larger, squeezing households already feeling stretched financially. Overall, health-care spending across the economy reached 18.2% of gross domestic product as of June, up from 13.3% in 2000, according to Altarum Institute, a health research ... Read More »
