Office and Retail Spaces

NEW YORK (AP) — The balance of power between landlords and tenants will shift dramatically in 2009. For landlords, this promises to be a year of intense competition, more bankrupt tenants, and tightfisted lenders. For renters, it looks like a...

A new audit raises questions about how the state Department of Environmental Protection manages a rental housing program for workers. The Republican-American newspaper in Waterbury reported Friday that the audit found four cases of workers living in...

It has become the biggest mystery to emerge from the $50 billion Bernard Madoff scandal: Where did all the money go? Federal investigators are likely to take months trying to answer that question as they dig through the disgraced investor's records and...

A single mother's fight against her eviction leads to a policy change by Fannie that could help renters across the country. The state's only job bank for seniors — based in West Hartford — has run into severe financial problems. Windsor...

. No one in this room is supposed to be alive. Each was marked for death—by bullet, by gas, by starvation—nearly 70 years ago. - Yet they sweep into the squat Skokie building with gusto, making noise, lots of it. As they schmooze, kvetch,...

Democrats are preoccupied with the bizarre story of Rod Blagojevich. But Democrats have ethics problems that go beyond the delusional governor of Illinois. The calculating chairman of the congressional House Ways and Means Committee may be a longer...

When U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez was looking to buy in the sizzling Bucktown real estate market, he teamed up with a developer and longtime political donor who sold him a plot of land and built him a new home. And when the congressman decided not to move...

Within one square block of the Charles North neighborhood there is a gallery announcing a coming live painting; a spoken word exhibit; a theater staging a film noir comedy; and a bar where the staff is known to perform on a trapeze. So it's no surprise...

She sits every day at a defense table behind former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona, occasionally twirling her short blond hair and looking bored. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: An earlier online version of this article was accompanied by a...

Life Plaza Center in San Gabriel used to teem with diners heading to Green Village, a Chinese restaurant in the middle of the horseshoe-shaped mall on Valley Boulevard. But after the eatery closed five months ago, the 7,500- square-foot space remained...

by Frank James House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) is talking this morning about ethics concerns over his role in soliciting funds for a center named for him at the City College of New York,......

Tribune reporter Layoffs at Chicago law firms have sent a shudder through the commercial real estate market. In the past five years, law firms have been a primary driver of the downtown real estate expansion. Several of Chicago's largest firms,...