Real estate investment trusts, or REITs, can be a way to tap into the real estate market as an investor. However, it can carry some risks.

Walmart’s hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas has become a boomtown with many amenities you might expect to find in New York or San Francisco – fancy restaurants, craft cocktails, bike paths and a world-class art museum. The town has more cranes per capita than any other U.S. city as Walmart builds a 350-acre new headquarters. Bentonville’s population is expected to triple by 2050. But with the boom comes big-city economic challenges. CNBC’s Melissa Repko travels to Bentonville for the story.

Barry Sternlicht, Starwood Capital chairman and CEO, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the state of the economy, real estate trends, limiting redemptions on property fund, the Fed’s inflation fight, impact of interest rate hikes, and more.

Barry Sternlicht, Starwood Capital chairman and CEO, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the state of the economy, real estate trends, limiting redemptions on property fund, the Fed’s inflation fight, impact of interest rate hikes, and more.

Mortgage interest rates last week moved to the highest level since early May, and that pushed mortgage demand lower for the second straight week.

Real estate investor activity picked up for the first time in nearly two years. Here’s what it means for buyers, and even renters, on the market.

Ben Harburg of Core Values Alpha says deflation is so entrenched in China that “numbers don’t show the amount of consumption that is truly going on.”

Ford Chair Bill Ford Jr., who spearheaded the project, said the 30-acre campus will be key for the automaker’s talent acquisition and retention.

Scientists are forecasting “above-normal” activity for this year’s hurricane season. How to prepare your home, as hurricane damage can be costly.

Realtors are going beyond “staging” a property with art and furniture and are hiring experts to curate art collections for homes.

Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh, Jakarta and Manila are leading the recovery in Asia’s rental growth in 2024, according to JLL.

Laurel Durkay, Morgan Stanley head of global listed real assets, joins CNBC’s ‘The Exchange’ to discuss the housing market affordability crisis, stocks that might benefit from these challenges, and more.