Real Estate

119 stories published since 2009

Native Hawaiians Are Split Over How to Spend $600 Million to Help Those Who Need Housing

by Rob Perez, Honolulu Star-Advertiser

May 27, 2022, 6:00 am EDT
Colorado Legislature Passes HOA Foreclosure Reform Bill

by Brittany Freeman, Rocky Mountain PBS

May 3, 2022, 6:00 pm EDT
They Faced Foreclosure Not From Their Mortgage Lender, but From Their HOA

by Brittany Freeman, Rocky Mountain PBS, with data analysis by Sophie Chou and research by Mariam Elba, ProPublica

April 7, 2022, 2:00 pm EDT
How Your Shadow Credit Score Could Decide Whether You Get an Apartment

by Erin Smith, and Heather Vogell, ProPublica

March 29, 2022, 6:00 am EDT
These Native Hawaiians Waited Years for Homes on Their Ancestral Land. Then the Problems Began.

by Rob Perez, Honolulu Star-Advertiser

March 3, 2022, 5:00 am EST
When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord

by Heather Vogell

February 7, 2022, 10:25 am EST
Senate Finance Chair to Billionaire Developers: Explain How Opportunity Zone Tax Break Is Helping the Poor

by Justin Elliott and Jeff Ernsthausen

January 13, 2022, 9:00 am EST
These Real Estate and Oil Tycoons Avoided Paying Taxes for Years

by Jeff Ernsthausen, Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger

December 7, 2021, 5:00 am EST
He Tore Down Motels Where Poor Residents Lived During a Housing Crisis. City Leaders Did Nothing.

by Anjeanette Damon, photography by David Calvert, special to ProPublica

November 12, 2021, 6:00 am EST
Facebook Grew Marketplace to 1 Billion Users. Now Scammers Are Using It to Target People Around the World.

by Craig Silverman, A.C. Thompson and Peter Elkind

September 22, 2021, 5:00 am EDT
Landlords Use Secret Algorithms to Screen Potential Tenants. Find Out What They’ve Said About You.

by Erin Smith

September 20, 2021, 12:00 pm EDT
Clean-Energy Loans Trapped Black Homeowners in Debt. The Legislature Just Started Trying to Fix the Problem.

by Jeremy Kohler and Haru Coryne

May 6, 2021, 3:05 pm EDT
Hawaii Officials Promise Changes to Seawall Policies That Have Quickened Beach Destruction

by Mindy Pennybacker and Sophie Cocke, Honolulu Star-Advertiser

December 31, 2020, 3:30 pm EST
The Government Promised to Return Ancestral Hawaiian Land, Then Never Finished the Job

by Rob Perez, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, and Agnel Philip, ProPublica

December 19, 2020, 5:30 am EST
Disinvested: How Government and Private Industry Let the Main Street of a Black Neighborhood Crumble

by Tony Briscoe, Haru Coryne and Mick Dumke

November 11, 2020, 5:00 am EST
Arkansas: My Landlord Is Trying to Kick Me Out. What Can I Do?

by Maya Miller and Ellis Simani

October 26, 2020, 11:29 am EDT
To Reclaim Ancestral Land, All Native Hawaiians Need Is a $300,000 Mortgage and to Wait in Line for Decades

by Rob Perez, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, and Agnel Philip, ProPublica

October 24, 2020, 6:00 am EDT
How We Found Low-Income Hawaiians Were Left Behind by the Homesteading Program

by Agnel Philip, ProPublica, and Rob Perez, Honolulu Star-Advertiser

October 24, 2020, 5:59 am EDT
The Kushners’ Freddie Mac Loan Wasn’t Just Massive. It Came With Unusually Good Terms, Too.

by Heather Vogell

October 1, 2020, 4:00 am EDT
Obama and the Beach House Loopholes

by Sophie Cocke, Honolulu Star-Advertiser

August 15, 2020, 6:00 am EDT
Cannabis, Lies and Foreign Cash: A Mother and Daughter’s Journey Through the Underground Mask Trade

by J. David McSwane

August 3, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
Millions of Homeowners Who Need Flood Insurance Don’t Know It — Thanks to FEMA

by Lisa Song and Tony Briscoe

June 30, 2020, 12:30 pm EDT
Can You Be Evicted During Coronavirus? Here’s How to Find Out.

by Jeff Ernsthausen, Ellis Simani and Al Shaw

May 18, 2020, 11:00 am EDT
The Sears Headquarters Deal Cost Taxpayers $500 Million. 30 Years Later, There’s Little to Show for It.

by David Bernstein for The Daily Herald

May 16, 2020, 6:00 am EDT
Meet the Shadowy Accountants Who Do Trump’s Taxes and Help Him Seem Richer Than He Is

by Peter Elkind, ProPublica, and Meg Cramer, WNYC, with Doris Burke, ProPublica

May 6, 2020, 4:00 am EDT
What You Need to Know About How Section 8 Really Works

by Maya Miller

January 9, 2020, 5:30 am EST
Lo que necesita saber acerca de cómo funciona realmente la Sección 8

por Maya Miller

January 9, 2020, 5:30 am EST
How Wealthy Towns Keep People With Housing Vouchers Out

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, The Connecticut Mirror

January 9, 2020, 5:00 am EST
The IRS Tried to Crack Down on Rich People Using an “Abusive” Tax Deduction. It Hasn’t Gone So Well.

by Peter Elkind

January 3, 2020, 5:00 am EST
Separated by Design: Why Affordable Housing Is Built in Areas With High Crime, Few Jobs and Struggling Schools

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, The Connecticut Mirror

November 25, 2019, 5:00 am EST
How a Tax Break to Help the Poor Went to NBA Owner Dan Gilbert

by Jeff Ernsthausen and Justin Elliott

October 24, 2019, 2:10 pm EDT
Trump’s Trillion-Dollar Hit to Homeowners

by Allan Sloan

October 10, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
How a Politically Powerful Family Muscled a Nonprofit Out of Some of a City’s Most Valuable Land

by Jeff Pillets and Nancy Solomon, WNYC

October 3, 2019, 5:00 pm EDT
How to Close Heirs’ Property Loopholes

by Lizzie Presser

July 15, 2019, 4:59 am EDT
One Trump Tax Cut Was Meant to Help the Poor. A Billionaire Ended Up Winning Big.

by Jeff Ernsthausen and Justin Elliott

June 19, 2019, 4:00 am EDT
Separated by Design: How Some of America’s Richest Towns Fight Affordable Housing

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, The Connecticut Mirror

May 22, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
Behind the Scenes, Health Insurers Use Cash and Gifts to Sway Which Benefits Employers Choose

by Marshall Allen

February 20, 2019, 5:00 am EST
How the Trash Industry Worked Overtime Trying to Thwart New York City’s Reform Plans

by Kiera Feldman for ProPublica

December 31, 2018, 12:45 pm EST
How a Consultant Said He Gamed HUD Inspections: Sweep Problems Behind a Wall

by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan, and Patrick Johnson, The Republican

December 21, 2018, 10:00 am EST
“Pretty Much a Failure”: HUD Inspections Pass Dangerous Apartments Filled With Rats, Roaches and Toxic Mold

by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan

November 16, 2018, 11:00 am EST
HUD Long Neglected These Residents. Now As They Move Out, Some Feel HUD Let Them Down Again.

by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan

April 6, 2018, 7:00 am EDT
After a Sweet Deal With Dad, Eric Trump Assembles a Valuable Penthouse

by Derek Kravitz, ProPublica, and Will Parker, The Real Deal

January 10, 2018, 8:00 am EST
The Billion-Dollar Loophole

by Peter Elkind

December 20, 2017, 6:30 am EST
Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race

by Julia Angwin, Ariana Tobin and Madeleine Varner

November 21, 2017, 1:23 pm EST
Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud

by Jesse Eisinger and Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz, WNYC

October 4, 2017, 4:00 am EDT
The ‘International Man of Mystery’ Linked to Flynn’s Lobbying Deal

by Isaac Arnsdorf

June 27, 2017, 5:20 am EDT
Many ‘Rent-Stabilized’ NYC Apartments Are Not Really Stabilized. See Where They Are.

by Cezary Podkul

June 22, 2017, 2:22 pm EDT
New York Landlords Exploit Loophole to Hike Rents Despite Freeze

by Cezary Podkul

April 25, 2017, 8:00 am EDT
How a Tip About Habitat for Humanity Became a Story

by Marcelo Rochabrun

October 27, 2016, 8:00 am EDT
Fire Fight

Robert Faturechi

June 22, 2016, 8:00 am EDT