These underappreciated plants attract a “hungry throng” of beneficial insects. They’re not bad to look at, either.
Category: Real Estate and Housing (Residential)
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Inside Roz Chast’s Connecticut Home
The New Yorker cartoonist has trouble making decisions about décor. Anyone who has seen the art collection in her home may not notice.
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How High Interest Rates Sting Bakers, Farmers and Consumers
Everyone who relies on credit in America is confronting a new reality: Money will cost more for a good long while.
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Cities Foster Serendipity. But Can They Do It When Workers Are at Home?
Revisiting a theory about chance collisions and innovation.
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What Makes a Tiny Home Cool? Apartment Therapy’s Latest Pop-Up Has Ideas
The “Small/Cool NYC” pop-up exhibition in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, offers rooms you can explore created by designers you know — and some you may not.
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Country Garden Says Executives Have Not Fled China
The company, one of China’s biggest property developers, took the unusual step of stating that the company’s founder and its chairwoman were “working normally.”
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China’s Economy Grew More Than Expected Over the Summer
The government spent heavily on infrastructure, state-owned banks financed a boom in factory construction and consumers spent more, but the housing sector stumbled.
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A Higher Monthly Payment, but Less Square Footage
Homebuilders are responding to rising interest rates with an innovation: a small house in the traditionally spacious exurbs.
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As Coal Plants Shutter, a Chance to Redevelop ‘the Gates of Hell’
Developers are combining new strategies with state and federal funds to turn decayed power plants once considered a blemish into potential assets for economic growth.
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In Tacoma, an Apartment Renovation That’s All About the Art
The Tacoma condo hadn’t been touched in 40 years, and the pandemic made renovating tricky. But it turned out so well, now the architect wants to buy it.
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China Bet It All on Real Estate. Now Its Economy Is Paying the Price.
After relying on a borrow-to-build model for decades, Beijing must make difficult choices about the country’s housing market and economic future.
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The Places That Sam Bankman-Fried Left Behind
Before his FTX crypto exchange imploded and he went on trial for fraud, Mr. Bankman-Fried ran a global business empire spanning Berkeley, Calif., Hong Kong and the Bahamas.