I often talk about housing affordability, interest rates and the local real estate market. I would like to switch gears and address some questions about the residential rental market. The surge in ...

Just about everyone has had an experience with a portable classroom — a one-story, railroad-car-like box on stilts or cinder blocks. You enter via a small ramp with painted 2-by-4 railings that leads ...

In buildings where technology manages everything, from motion-sensing lights to elevators that recall your preferences, electricity quietly powers the entire system. But when that flow becomes ...