Phoenix industry insiders say developing speculative office space has been a tougher sell since the Great Recession, but hot submarkets are drawing interest. Even areas that normally couldn't support such building may be primed for it.

The number of women in the U.S. construction industry is on the rise. From apprentices to craft professionals, estimators and executives, women are represented in all facets of the construction workforce. And the opportunities to join and grow within the booming construction industry are numerous, especially with a workforce shortage impacting the sector across the United States.

The construction industry offers an earn-while-you-learn apprenticeship model and values lifelong education, which allows…

Oahu Publications Inc. had listed the property, which is located at the corner of Kalaeloa Boulevard and Kapolei Parkway, across from the Kapolei Commons shopping center, on the market with CBRE nearly a year ago.

Patrick Burbridge of CitiQuest Properties took the No. 1 spot on the Residential Real Estate Agents by Transactions List for the second year in a row.

Laura Sweeney again defended her No. 1 spot on the Top Residential Real Estate Agents by Sales Volume List.

For HomeFree-USA President Marcia Griffin, buying a home is more than just a real estate transaction.

“The thing that I think people should know about homeownership is that a home is more than a house, a home is a feeling,” Griffin says. “There is a strong feeling of independence, a strong feeling of comfort, a strong feeling of achieving.”

Griffin and her team at HomeFree-USA work every day so that more people can feel that way as empowered first-time homeowners. The D.C. and Maryland-based…

Baltimore-based CRC now manages a portfolio of retail centers totaling more than 3.5 million square feet plus apartments communities of nearly 10,000 homes.

Douglas Emmett Inc. on Thursday blessed its addition of four new towers with nearly 500 workforce units to the Moanalua Hillside Apartments complex in Honolulu.

Mayor Kirk Caldwell and representatives from the four Hawaii banks that had formed a hui to finance the $120 million project — American Savings Bank, Bank of Hawaii, Central Pacific Bank and First Hawaiian bank — joined officials from Douglas Emmett (NYSE: DEI) at the blessing beside a new pool situated between two of the new towers…

Read Q&As with the top agents and teams on seven HBJ Lists.

Their organization, Bice & Associates, consist only of them as sellers.