Good morning and thank you for holding. Welcome to Rent-A-Center’s fourth quarter and year 2008 earnings release conference call. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Following ...

When news broke this summer that U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel had been renting multiple rent-stabilized apartments in Harlem for decades, it set off a flurry of articles about the program that keeps rents ...

REAL ESTATE • The Rent Guidelines Board, which regulates the city’s 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, recommended increases of 3.5 percent to 7 percent for one-year leases and 5.5 percent to 9.5 ...

Fear has prevailed among landlords of high-end Manhattan rental buildings in recent months. An increasing number of their plush units remain vacant as, perhaps not coincidentally, an increasing number ...

NEW YORK CITY—A strong office leasing market fueled by a surging economy sparked a decline in office vacancies in Manhattan in the third quarter and the highest office rental rates since year-end 2008 ...

LOS ANGELES According to the real estate research firm Real Facts, rent has gone down 4.9 percent since peaking in the third quarter of 2008. That brings the average rent price from $1,500 to about $1 ...