New Delhi / Bloomberg India is proposing to convert some of its remote rural roads into runways, both for defense and commercial planes, as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to connect the nation’s 1.3 billion people. “We can close road traffic when a plane lands and open once the plane has taken off,” Nitin Gadkari, the transport ...

  Bloomberg After four years of crammed open houses, heated competition and dizzying price gains that sent the median cost of a home to $1.2mn, San Francisco’s real estate market is starting to lose steam. The inventory of luxury homes is at a record high. A smaller share of deals have bidding wars. Rent growth for large and upscale apartments ...

  Bloomberg New-home construction in the U.S. was little changed in May, a sign the residential real-estate industry will add little to economic growth in the second quarter. Housing starts in May fell 0.3 percent to a 1.16 million annualized rate from a 1.17 million pace the prior month, a Commerce Department report showed in Washington. Progress in residential real ...