Real estate industry

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

A new CEO considers changes to her top team.

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.

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

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

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

By better pricing risk, it can change our behavior.

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

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, […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

A combination of forces is making it harder than ever for companies to increase their revenues. But there is a way out of the trap—and it’s closer at hand than you might think.

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

How managers can cut expenses they once ignored.

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 […]

Office space rental is often a big expense for a small company. But it can be unnecessarily expensive if you don’t understand the hidden costs and restrictions that are buried in many leases. The first thing to understand is that when you negotiate an office lease, your landlord probably has the advantage. If you’re like […]