Bloomberg Blackstone Group LP plans to sell office properties in the Netherlands as the world’s largest manager of alternative assets seeks to profit from rising real estate prices in the country, according to two people with knowledge of the process. CBRE Group Inc. has been hired to market the properties in cities including Amsterdam and Utrecht for more than …

  Bloomberg A real estate developer wanted to increase affordable housing in Denver, trying to make fiscal sense out of a plan to build rental apartments for people making only 30 percent of the area’s median income—the kind of housing America desperately needs. He discovered that, no matter what lever he moved or compromise he made, he was going to …

  Bloomberg A few months ago, senior executives at Vodafone’s Irish division sat down with a 16-year-old boy to ask him about his daily routine and, specifically, how he uses his smartphone. The kid told them that the first thing he does in the morning is check Snapchat. On the way to school, Snapchat. On the way home, Snapchat. Sometimes …