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As the declining population continues to impact Japan’s society and economy, the number of vacant houses has topped nine million – enough to accommodate the entire population of Australia at three people per dwelling.Government figures…

<!-- -->Women stand in queues with empty buckets to collect water from tankers.Bengaluru: Bengaluru is struggling with an acute water crisis with the onset of summer, prompting a 24-hour water supply cut starting Tuesday.Over 200…

“Ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that’s the worst day of my life.”That dark line, delivered by actor Ron Livingston in…

Madewell has announced they are backing out of the beleaguered San Francisco Centre, making them the fifth store to depart in the last month  The company follows the likes of Adidas, J. Crew, Lucky Brand and Aldo who have all either left…

The developer remaking Horton Plaza mall into a mixed-use office campus has unveiled plans to erect two, 420-foot-tall residential skyscrapers on the 10-acre property between First and Fourth avenues in the heart of downtown San…

Office landlords, hit hard by the work-from-home revolution, are resorting to a desperate measure in the real estate world: “handing back the keys.”When this happens, the landlord stops paying the mortgage on the office building or…

Even though China has a population of 1.4 billion, it would not be enough to fill all the empty apartments littered across the country, a former official said in a rare public critique of the country's crisis-hit property market.…

As the pandemic waned, Selene Carter and Steven Hendren came to a crossroads. The couple, who married in 2015, had been renting a cramped house near downtown Bloomington, Ind., for years. It was within walking distance of their jobs at…

Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg announced about a year ago that he was betting his company’s future on the metaverse. So far, it’s looking like a bad bet. Zuckerberg renamed the company he leads "Meta" to emphasize the transformation,…

A year ago, virtually all of the nearly 4 million people who swamp Manhattan below 60th Street each day deserted the central city — except me. I am one of a handful of people — less than 30,000, in a space that would fit…