Stuart Elliott

There are reasons to be optimistic heading into next year. A possible return to normal life seems within sight, suddenly.

Often caricatured as greedy or heartless, mom and pop landlords feel pain, too. And they have bills to pay.

We have all become digital nomads. What that means for real estate (and real estate values) is still murky, but some trends are coming into clearer focus. Last month, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky announced that he would be living off his platform, hopping to a different town or city every couple of weeks. He said he wanted to live the experience that so many Airbnb users, untethered from the office, were having. (At The Real

If property titans are the new robber barons, TRD is telling stories of American ingenuity, warts and all. Enjoy the latest in our July issue.

If property titans are the new robber barons, TRD is telling stories of American ingenuity, warts and all. Enjoy the latest in our July issue.

From Miami to Sa Francisco, the Real Deal’s new August issue features a lineup of stories examining where the industry’s money is flowing.

You don’t often hear the phrases “cult of personality” and “multifamily real estate” bandied about in the same sentence. But the staid world of rental housing is attracting two outsized personalities seeking huge profits — and trading on their considerable charm to do so. Our cover story this month profiles Grant Cardone, the energetic sales […]

You don’t often hear the phrases “cult of personality” and “multifamily real estate” bandied about in the same sentence. But the staid world of rental housing is attracting two outsized personalities seeking huge profits — and trading on their considerable charm to do so. Our cover story this month profiles Grant Cardone, the energetic sales trainer, motivational speaker and emerging real estate mogul, who claims to have amassed a $5 billion apartment portfolio funded by

Welcome to the fall. The world hasn’t fallen apart (yet). With summer over, and Wall Street traders back at their desks, any economic clouds they had been able to ignore while on holiday loom larger. That phenomenon helps explain why stock markets often tank in the autumn. Think back to the fall of 2008 […]

Welcome to the fall. The world hasn’t fallen apart (yet). With summer over, and Wall Street traders back at their desks, any economic clouds they had been able to ignore while on holiday loom larger. That phenomenon helps explain why stock markets often tank in the autumn. Think back to the fall of 2008 (the collapse of Lehman Brothers), 1987 (Black Monday) and 1929 (the crash that signaled the beginning of the Great Depression).

Across the country, NIMBYs are turning into YIMBYs. A growing number of progressive politicians are taking surprising pro-development stances. The mayors of big cities are actively shilling for projects. And some of the most hardcore voices on the left are being shouted down when they stand in the way of more housing. It’s a big shift. For many years, real estate was a political bogeyman in New York. Candidates wouldn’t accept its donations or

From the crypto collapse to the future of office space, December’s TRD issue seeks the answers to real estate’s most important questions.

From the crypto collapse to the future of office space, December’s TRD issue seeks the answers to real estate’s most important questions.

Covering real estate is never about the bricks and mortar — it’s about the personalities at the center of the wheeling and dealing. The beginning of the year is an opportune time to look back at what readers liked best in 2022. The stories that drew the most new subscribers were those that pulled […]

Covering real estate is never about the bricks and mortar — it’s about the personalities at the center of the wheeling and dealing. The beginning of the year is an opportune time to look back at what readers liked best in 2022. The stories that drew the most new subscribers were those that pulled […]

Covering real estate is never about the bricks and mortar — it’s about the personalities at the center of the wheeling and dealing. The beginning of the year is an opportune time to look back at what readers liked best in 2022. The stories that drew the most new subscribers were those that pulled […]

Covering real estate is never about the bricks and mortar — it’s about the personalities at the center of the wheeling and dealing. The beginning of the year is an opportune time to look back at what readers liked best in 2022. The stories that drew the most new subscribers were those that pulled […]

Covering real estate is never about the bricks and mortar — it’s about the personalities at the center of the wheeling and dealing. The beginning of the year is an opportune time to look back at what readers liked best in 2022. The stories that drew the most new subscribers were those that pulled back the curtain on the industry’s biggest players — whether uncovering the history of such “quiet giants” as Joseph Chetrit

There are so many questions in real estate these days.   There are so many questions, period. As I write this note on the second-to-last day in October, I realize that it will soon be a time capsule: First, we don’t know right now who will be our next president.  Forget the existential future of […]

Who would have thought real estate dealmaking would be a path to world peace?  It was for Steve Witkoff, the developer turned global envoy for President Trump.  Our cover story this month tracks Witkoff’s path from developing luxury condos in Miami and New York to taking on seemingly impossible political tasks. In January, he brokered […]