Two Triad shopping centers have been bought by a Virginia Beach, Va., real-estate company as part of paying $170.5 million in cash for an 11-p…
When you think about the process of buying art, it has a certain mystique. Whether you think of posh New York galleries or elite auction house…
WASHINGTON — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose slightly this week, but remain near historic lows with the spring home-buying season u…
Dear Amy: Please settle a disagreement for me. Recently my mother passed away. She was in her 80s, and when the family started to clean out th…
For many shoppers, Black Friday is exciting because of all the deals. But it can be frustrating because stores are filled with customers and i…
NEW YORK — The U.S. stock market is back to setting records.
Relying on dividend-paying stocks for income has two terrific advantages over bonds or other fixed-income investments: 1) They are taxed at mu…
WASHINGTON -- As you make decisions about giving for the holidays, you might run into the problem facing a reader who asked me to weigh in on …
NEW YORK — Smokers younger than 21 in the nation’s biggest city will soon be barred from buying cigarettes after the New York City Council vot…
Charles “Charlie” Gwinn, 59, got into the mall business almost by accident. While chatting one day in 1979 with some employees of the Richard E. Jacobs Group Inc., one of them asked Gwinn if he’d ever considered working in the shopping-center industry.
Caprice Glenn grew up in a house with a backyard, a place where she could play.
T-Mobile USA, the struggling No. 4 cellphone company, is ditching plans centered on familiar two-year contracts in favor of selling phones on …
Strategic shopping’s basic idea is to buy products at their lowest price — and buying multiples of those items is the best money-saving technique.
David Phillips has come up with his own niche site, and it doesn't provide discounts on restaurants, hotels and spas.
The U.S. economy ended last year on an encouraging note, with all parts of the country showing improvements. Factories produced more, shoppers…
NEW YORK — The mortgage-rate bar is even lower, but few homebuyers are making the jump.
A recent conservative contributor to The readers' forum challenged liberals to give one example of government programs that have worked ("Show…
Sales of existing homes showed improvement last month in the Forsyth County area, increasing 17.2 percent over sales in January 2009.
"In America," says Josh T. Ryan at the start of every episode of Lock 'n Load, a new reality series on Showtime, "a new gun is manufactured ev…
Lecturing Wall Street on its own turf, President Obama warned financial leaders not to use the recovering economy to race back into "reckless …