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The executive director of Tulsa Remote asks (and answers): “What is the remote worker owed? And, to what extent, if at all, are remote workers different from their office-bound counterparts?”

Events such as flooding and hurricanes seem to encourage high-end construction rather than deter it, real estate agents say. | realestate.boston.com

Over the past year billionaire wealth has reached record highs. Now comes the real estate boom as they blow their newly-earned cash on $10 million-plus properties.

Mortgage rates are falling back to historic lows, giving homeowners another opportunity to refinance.

Cutting carbon emissions to zero in the next 30 years would save about 74 million lives this century, a new analysis estimates.

More than 40% of Colorado adults live in households that are behind on payments and where eviction or foreclosure in the next two months is likely.

'Bad Goods' is a documentary series for Vice News looking at the worldwide illicit trade market, from wildlife trafficking, counterfeit item selling and sand...

Earlier from the BEA: Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2021 (Advance Estimate) and Annual Update Real gross domestic product (GDP) ...

The forces that have propelled home price growth to new highs over the past year remain in place and are offering little evidence of abating.

There's been a lot of debate in the last few years about meritocracy, and it's become even more pressing in light of the pandemic. If essential workers are "essential", are they really less meritorious than a banker or accountant? On this episode, we'll be joined by Adrian Wooldridge, political editor at The Economist and author of the new book "The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World". He'll be making the nuanced case in favor of meritocracy, and we'll hear the other side on our next episode.

The tech giant's move is another sign that businesses are changing plans thanks to the Delta variant.

Here is the post earlier on Case-Shiller: Case-Shiller: National House Price Index increased 16.6% year-over-year in May It has been over ...

A few key points: 1) There is a clear seasonal pattern for house prices. 2) The surge in distressed sales during the housing bust distorte...

Jane Coaston is joined by Sean Bisceglia, the C.E.O. of Curion, a consumer insights company, and Anne Helen Petersen, the writer of the newsletter “Culture Study” and the author of “Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation,” to debate the pros and cons of returning to the office.

Vox's Jerusalem Demsas joins Matt and Dara on a time machine trip back to a WW1-era Supreme Court decision that shaped land use policy, zoning, and racial discrimination in housing. Discussion of Buchanan (and the related Euclid case decided nine years later) leads our hosts to talk a lot about the interrelated histories of zoning and racism in twentieth-century America.

The housing market in and around Phoenix is booming again as workers in expensive cities move to the region for cheaper housing.

Employers have been sleepwalking into a system that screens out the majority of workers, including millions of people who possess sought-after skills.