Stubbornly high interest rates, a glut of higher-end apartments in many markets, and higher labor and other building costs have made building new units far less attractive to developers — and ...

Eight people have been killed in a nighttime fire in the Philippines' capital region that gutted a three-story residential building in less than an hour.

On the same day, investigators found Kamioka’s head in a vacant apartment building in Osaka’s Chuo ... 27 and was scheduled to travel to the Philippines on the same day to meet his wife ...