LOS ANGELES — An unlikely corner of one of L.A.'s once-famous/now-dead malls is open for business again this week as residents move into luxury apartments on the spot that used to be a Macy's parking lot.

The Westside Pavilion was one of the city's premier shopping venues and a cultural touchstone for generations of Angelenos, appearing in ...Read more

Skanska USA Building builds big. One of the 10 largest general contractors in the United States, its Swedish owners bought Blue Bell-based Barclay White in 2000; added their name and capital; built a national staff of engineers, architects, and managers; and now have offices directing construction in New York and California, Texas and Florida, ...Read more

Bernard Arnault is pressing ahead with two major developments on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, tightening his grip on one of the world’s most exclusive retail corridors.

Arnault’s luxury conglomerate, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, is planning a new Tiffany & Co. flagship store on the site of the old Luxe Hotel, which will be ...Read more

Home Depot has checked another box for its pending acquisition, a $5.5 billion deal to buy specialty building products distributor GMS Inc.

Home Depot said Friday it has received clearance from the Canadian Competition Bureau in the form of a “no-action” letter. Home Depot and GMS both do business in Canada.

Home Depot says it has now ...Read more

Forty percent of baby boomers fear they will outlive their retirement savings. Several recent studies suggest they are right to worry.

Seniors in 41 states are projected to have more expenses than income during their golden years, putting them at risk for outliving their retirement savings, according to a new study by Seniorly, an assisted ...Read more

Lights. Camera. Sold.

As new generations of homebuyers enter the housing market, real estate agents are adapting their marketing strategies to win their attention — and business.

Agents, once popping up on highway billboards and showing up at community events to draw homebuyers and sellers, are now building influencer-like presence on social...Read more

After two years of inconsistent revenue, Twin Cities real estate agent Bryan Clapper decided to promote himself on social media armed with only his wits, video production skills and snarky personality.

In January, he posted a now viral pitch that Canada annex Minnesota (“We’re the only state whose motto is in French!”). This spring, he ...Read more

Pennsylvania is one of two states where the typical newly constructed home costs more than twice as much as the typical existing home, according to LendingTree, an online lending marketplace.

Municipalities’ approaches to development and the cost and availability of land help explain why, said Andrew Kaye, who has spent almost four decades in...Read more

Just seven months after graduating from business school, I made the final payment on my $72,000 student loan balance. It wasn’t easy — it took extra hustle, long days and sacrifice — but I wouldn’t trade it for the world. I thought our journey to debt payoff would be done after we paid off the student loans, but we took it a step further...Read more

The S&P 500 has had a nice run over the last few years, and the big-name tech stocks that everyone knows — Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia, among others — have led the charge higher. But which stocks may have been unfairly overlooked in that fast-and-furious rally? Below are some timely suggestions, as well as some perennial spots for finding ...Read more

A Dallas-based, Wall Street-traded firm owns 3,397 rental homes in the Las Vegas Valley, according to the company.

Invitation Homes, a publicly traded real estate investment trust, confirmed the number in an email response to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The company, with a current market cap of $18.5 billion, owns approximately 85,138 homes ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Early last year, vandals breached fencing, climbed dozens of flights of stairs and painted bold, colorful graffiti on the exterior of three unfinished high-rises that make up the abandoned Oceanwide Plaza development.

The so-called Graffiti Towers — visible from great distances on the 110 Freeway and looming over thousands of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The transformation of a sleek, granite-clad office tower on the edge of the 110 Freeway into deluxe apartments is about to begin, and developer Garrett Lee thinks the nearly 40-year-old building can be competitive with downtown L.A.’s much newer upmarket housing.

A mock-up of an apartment assembled in the L.A. Care tower on ...Read more

Three years ago, when inflation was rising at the fastest pace in almost half a century, Lori Schkufza could still see the silver linings. She had a full-time job with benefits as a digital animator. Even though her expenses had grown, her income had increased, too.

Now, however, the 38-year-old Buffalo, New York, resident has been out of a job...Read more

The cryptocurrency industry has lately begun to heavily promote tokenized stocks, but what exactly are they? More importantly, what advantages do tokenized stocks offer — especially when investors already have safe, no-cost fractional share trading at many brokers?

A tokenized stock is a fancy way of saying that ownership of a stock can be ...Read more

Making the decision to start investing is one of the best decisions you can make. Investing is an important step toward building wealth and achieving your financial goals. However, successful investing can be difficult and there are some key mistakes you’ll want to avoid.

Here are the top seven investment mistakes beginners make when they ...Read more

Over the last century, L.A.'s love affair with the single-family home has created a suburban sprawl of epic proportions.

Three bedrooms. A white-picket fence. A square of grass for the barbecue.

But for many, the dream of home ownership will never be realized. Home prices have soared, wages haven't kept pace, and more than half of L.A. ...Read more