Saint Petersburg / AFP A dispute with local authorities has frozen building work on one of the venues for the 2018 World Cup in Russia’s second city Saint Petersburg, the firm overseeing the construction said this week. Inzhtransstroy-SPB, which is building the new ultra-modern 68,000-seat stadium, said in a statement that local authorities owed it one billion rubles ($16 …

  Bloomberg Standard Life Investments and Legal & General Group Plc have joined the list of UK real estate fund managers offering buildings for sale after the UK’s vote to leave the European Union sparked an increase in redemptions. The asset managers are working with brokers to sell London office buildings, joining Henderson Global Investors and Aberdeen Asset Management Plc …

  Bloomberg Almost nine years after the housing-market bust helped trigger the most recent recession, RealtyTrac senior vice president Daren Blomquist sees the industry waving a red flag. The same fervent speculation that abetted the housing bubble is showing up in the bloated share of foreclosures snapped up by third-party investors at auction — a record 31 percent in June, …