Tag: Real estate

  • Nation & World

    When will hot housing market finally start to cool?

    A real estate investment expert at Harvard Business School explains what’s happening and why.

    7 minutes
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  • Nation & World

    Hiding money in plain sight

    The U.S. Treasury Department has begun scrutinizing the secret world of the American luxury real estate market to better assess how much of it may be enmeshed in money laundering.

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Among millions, a blank slate

    The Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest religious gathering, spawns a city of millions virtually overnight — and with it, a thriving ecosystem of commerce large-scale and small. Harvard Business School researchers traveled to India to search for the festival’s unlikely lessons in infrastructure, governance, and informal networks.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    REAI grants open for applications

    The Real Estate Academic Initiative at Harvard is offering its second round of grants of the academic year to support real estate and urban development research by Harvard faculty and students.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    REAI offering grants to faculty, students

    The Real Estate Academic Initiative (REAI) at Harvard is offering its first round of grants of the academic year to support real estate and urban development research by Harvard faculty and students.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Home buying and selling seminars open

    Demystify the home buying process by attending one of Harvard Real Estate Services’ home buying and selling seminars.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    For sale, cheap

    Study finds that bank foreclosures reduce a house’s price by an average of 27 percent, and nearby homes see their prices cut by an average of 1 percent.

    3 minutes