Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across the U.S. VIEW
Starting about three years ago, Amazon quietly began searching for property in key U.S. markets. It’s a shift for the company, and one that isn’t...
Microsoft is among tech firms hunting for more Manhattan office space
New York's battered office market is drawing more interest from tech companies that are hungry for space even as the pandemic upends traditional work. In...
Vancouver, B.C., dirty money figures: The smoking gun that wasn’t
A closer reading of the studies underlying last week's announcement shows there's little hard evidence of actual money laundering, and even then, the amounts could...
WeWork keeps pushing, and now landlords and rivals push back
The widening ambitions of office-sharing giant WeWork threaten to upend the commercial real estate industry it has already reshaped in its eight-year existence.
British Columbia cracks down on dirty money in real estate market
The Canadian province, the most expensive property market in Canada, is investigating money laundering in the housing sector.
Google-parent Alphabet picks Toronto for first digital neighborhood
Sidewalk Labs, the urban innovation unit of Google-parent Alphabet, and Waterfront Toronto plan to foster the development of a high-tech community from scratch along Lake...