How Your 401(k) Could Be Affected by the Labor Department’s Plan To Include Crypto, Real Estate, and Private Equity

Americans' 401(k) accounts may soon have more options to diversify under a Department of Labor plan. The Labor Department has proposed allowing 401(k) plans to include other assets, such as real estate and cryptocurrency. The suggested change comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive or

A One-Bedroom With Gothic Arches on Riverside Drive for $765,000

For under a million dollars, one can find all sorts of housing configurations: park- and subway-adjacent studios, one-bedrooms hidden in carriage houses or former shoe factories, and even the occasional true two-bedroom. We’re combing the market for particularly spacious, nicely renovated, or... Mor

Presupposition is the mistake:  Why housing marketing doesn’t meet the bar

Though I’ve never taken a marketing class, I remember fellow students quoting the famous Philip Kotler, who said that marketing is “the creation of demand.”  Simplistic to be sure, but a useful shorthand for that many-splendored thing that many of us do for a living.  We market to create demand, whi

‘The Housing Czar!’

Cea Weaver is still adjusting. For one, there is calling Zohran Mamdani “the mayor” instead of his first name. “I just messed up,” the director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants says after dropping a stray “Zohran” on the first night we meet. It is also weird to have two phones. We are sea...