There’s a good post over on the New York Times’ Economix blog this morning from renowned housing economist Edward Glaeser on what we’ve learned about housing, a year after the big collapse. Glaeser’s post might be better titled “What we’ve re-learned”…

In reporting this story for Sunday’s Post-Dispatch about the local impact of the federal stimulus plan (aka the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act), I came across this report, published just last week by the Brooking Institute.

Researchers at the Washington thinktank are…

OK, so this isn’t strictly tied to real estate and development (except for in a very macro housing-crisis-triggered-the-recession sense), but that’s OK every once in a while.

I’m writing a story for tomorrow’s paper about saving and spending in the recession…

Right after a new poll showing 52 percent of Americans believe the sickly economy has stablized comes word of fresh optimisn among panelists at a Counselors of Real Estate meeting in New York.

No one knows when the rebound will begin but panelists…

As if struggling homeowners don’t have enough to worry about, here’s another item: termite invasion.

A trade group, the National Pest Management Association, is warning homeowners that “a confluence” of issues might give termites an extra advantage this year.

As everyone knows, the…

At the end of 2008, nearly one in 20 borrowers in the U. S. was at least two months behind on their mortgage, according to a study out today from credit-monitoring firm TransUnion, and the rate of delinquency - often…

Yes, Building Blocks is mainly about real estate and development.

But like most things, development and real estate require spending. So for your consideration is a spending-related paradox described by Hans Eisenbeis, senior editor of financial services at Iconoculture Inc.

Eisenbeis tells…