real estate

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The firm started looking at funds that buy hard-to-trade assets like private credit, private equity and real estate in recent years because giant investment firms were increasingly selling them to its customers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

A wisecrack about the real estate prices popped into my head, but I held my tongue.

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2026

In most cases, simply inheriting money — whether cash, stocks, real estate or annuities — doesn’t count as taxable income when it’s received.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026

Retailer Bed Bath & Beyond is buying a real estate brokerage.

From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026

“Apartment rents skyrocket,” the front-page headline declares; they’ve leaped 20.5 percent in Minneapolis in the first three months of 2000 alone, an unprecedented increase, according to local real estate experts.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich