United Real Estate – a division of United Real Estate Group (UREG) – announced its merger with Virtual Properties Realty (VPR), the largest residential real estate brokerage in Greater Atlanta and the state of Georgia. VPR’s 14 locations and 3,700 agents close over $2.5 billion in annual sales. Both companies operate full-service, tech-enabled, next-generation real […]
New York’s new rental protections won’t end the outsize influence of big developers who pay the city’s bills
New York has become a ‘city for the rich’ in recent decades, a shift in its real estate market that impacts policy-making, too. Alessandro Colle / Shutterstock Cem S. Kayatekin, IE University New York has passed sweeping new laws that will close some legal loopholes that allowed the city’s 1 million rent-stabilized apartments to be […]
Does climate change affect real estate prices? Only if you believe in it
Flooding due to climate change may make coastal homes less valuable. AP Photo/Julio Cortez Constantine Yannelis, University of Chicago; Lorenzo Garlappi, University of British Columbia, and Markus Baldauf, University of British Columbia In the wake of two powerful hurricanes in the U.S. this fall, the scientific evidence that climate change will raise the risk of […]