Real estate industry

A real estate developer considers whether to push forward with an office complex in the midst of Covid-19.

An office lease can create financial difficulty if a tenant ignores provisions that landlords can use to gain extra income. The author points out some...

What stands between you and the yes you want? According to negotiation experts David Lax and James Sebenius, executives face obstacles in three common...

By better pricing risk, it can change our behavior.

A new study found that in the three years after regulations were enacted, residential permit applications fell by an average of 10% in 15 U.S. cities.

Summer homes are more desirable than snack cakes in all but one respect: Many people could, if they chose, buy 100 different kinds of snack cake, while only the superaffluent can afford more than one summer home. In an age when consumers crave variety, luxury items pose a bit of a problem. How do you […]

A new CEO considers changes to her top team.

At a time when companies are poised to seize the growth opportunities of a rebounding economy, many of them, whether they know it or not, face a growth...

Photography: Stuart Isett The Idea: When the car rental company acquired Alamo and National, rather than execute a “takeover,” it moved slowly and sought to learn from its new brands. In 2007 Enterprise Rent-A-Car was marking its 50th anniversary. We had much to celebrate. With more than $9 billion in global revenue, […]

Getting the right people on board—and then all enthusiastically pulling in the right direction—has bedeviled organizations since the time of wooden ships, when the most popular form of motivation left lash marks. Today’s corporate helmsmen may be more enlightened, but they still face the same challenge. How can a company transform its frontline crew into […]

We like seeing people, even if it's inefficient.

More than $1 trillion in loans will come due over the next two years. Here’s how companies can protect themselves.

The attributes metros must have to thrive in the digital economy.

Can an auto rental company fully integrate its car-sharing start-up without losing customers?

In this fictional case, Alex, a real estate developer, is at a crossroads in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. His company is a year away from completing...

Activists are a source of potential value, albeit a risky one.

Senior managers at large companies may think that occupancy costs are too insignificant to worry about, too technical to analyze, and too fixed to control....

In this fictional case, Alex, a real estate developer, is at a crossroads in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. His company is a year away from completing...

For more than two years, Americans have heard distant rumors of unthinkable land price escalation going on in Japan. News reports indicate that in 1988, Japan’s theoretical land value surpassed by four times that of all land in the United States, a country nearly 25 times larger than Japan. Another real estate bulletin: the calculated […]

A comprehensive approach to corporate facilities can cut costs and increase productivity.