One of South Beach’s developers is creating a new shopping district in hopes of taking on Bal Harbour Shops, long the top draw for Miami’s big spenders.

This hacienda-style ranch house is part of a sprawling development in Okeechobee, Fla., that offers quail hunting and amenities such as a 600-foot zip line across a lake.

The McMansion’s demise has been greatly exaggerated, and luxury-home builder Toll Brothers’s sales backlog is finally rising again.

The nation’s rural regions saw much slower population growth over the past decade, reflecting a drop in the number of jobs in these often-isolated areas.

Development company Avatar Holdings has to change its name because of confusion with the popular “Avatar” movie.

Developer Aby Rosen, who has been fighting headwinds to shore up his highly leveraged U.S. office buildings, faces a new threat, this one to his firm’s large portfolio in Stamford, Conn.

Hines, one of the world’s largest real-estate groups in terms of assets, is preparing to spend $1.6 billion on buildings in the U.K., doubling its assets in the country in an effort to diversify away from riskier acquisitions.

Commercial real-estate firm Grubb & Ellis Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, requesting an expedited sale as it faces $30 million in debt that matures on March 1 and insufficient cash to make it through the first quarter.

A staircase inside this penthouse apartment leads up to a private roof with views of Hong Kong’s skyline and harbor.

The U.S. is studying a single way to package home loans into securities as an interim step to develop a home-mortgage guarantee system that could outlive Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.