With even modest hotels charging from $200 to $300 a room all over the world (and sometimes more), the smart traveler is frequently turning to the rental of lower-cost vacation homes or apartments.
We have learned that it is rather easy to find, say, a perfectly acceptable $139-a-night apartment in Manhattan to substitute for a Manhattan [...]
A senior French public housing official was ordered to step down Thursday after a newspaper revealed that he was renting a Left Bank apartment provided by Paris City Hall at a quarter of the market rate.
Jean-Paul Bolufer resigned at the urging of Prime Minister Francois Fillon and Housing Minister Christine Boutin.
Le Canard Enchaine, a satirical [...]
Apartment rents need to jump sharply or sales prices must plummet further before the market reaches a balance, says Dick Ayres, convener of the Auckland CBD Apartment Investment Group.
He said rents needed to rise before savvy investors could justify some of the prices being demanded by vendors.
Ayres was responding to an article in yesterday’s Business [...]
The national and the local apartment vacancy rates, far apart in recent years, are much closer now.
Reis, Inc. (AMEX: WRP) a New York-based research firm, said the nation’s average apartment vacancy was 5.8 percent as of the end of the second quarter, down from 6 percent during the first three months of 2007 –reportedly the [...]
The pace of apartment rental in Dallas-Fort Worth has ground nearly to a halt this year.
And the dramatic slowdown in apartment demand in North Texas has left industry analysts scratching their heads.
“It’s pretty ugly,” said Greg Willett of apartment consultant M/PF YieldStar. The latest leasing numbers were released Thursday.
“Results for the second [...]
It seemed like a great idea at the time: Rent a fabulous apartment and spend a week living like a Parisian.
First of all, look at all the money we would save with four of us staying in an apartment instead of pricey hotels, then doing our own cooking to avoid expensive restaurants and cafés where [...]
A room with a view of downtown, neighbors from all walks of life, all for $80 per week.
That’s a description of Waukesha’s rooming houses that adds up to the perfect place to call home for some of the down-and-out people of the city.
But for city and business officials concerned about the future of Waukesha’s [...]
A judge has granted part of a request for class action in a lawsuit involving a Springdale apartment complex.
The Springdale Ridge Apartments were evacuated after carbon monoxide was detected in August 2004.
Washington County Circuit Judge Mary Ann Gunn ruled Wednesday a class consisting of former residents seeking rent refunds and punitive damages from owners and [...]
If you live in a rent stabilized apartment in New York City, get ready to pay more for your pad.
As usual, tempers flared over the Rent Guidelines Board’s decision which impacts more than a million people.
Eyewitness News reporter Lucy Yang has the story.
Maxine Zeifman is not like her Upper East Side neighbors. She does not [...]
For most Americans, moving out of Mom and Dad’s house means moving into a rental unit of their own. Not only is an apartment the home of choice for young adults leaving the nest, statistics show an increasing number of Americans are opting to rent as a permanent housing arrangement.
In 2004, more than 36 million [...]
The Rent Guidelines Board is taking precautions to keep Tuesday’s vote on rent increases from becoming as disorderly as last year’s, when tenant representatives showed up armed with drums, whistles, air horns and profanity-laden signs.
Last year’s chaos forced the delay of a decision for two and a half hours and objections were later raised that [...]
Sixty-five percent of those surveyed said that given the current state of the real estate market there are advantages to renting as opposed to owning. Twenty-five percent said that having no susceptibility to foreclosure was a reason to rent, 23% said not having to worry about fluctuating interest rates was a perk and 23% also [...]