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A venture capital group, including hotelier Barry Sternlicht, invested in a San Francisco-based company that works with developers who set aside blocks of apartments for short-term rentals. The group, which also included Fifth Wall Ventures and New Enterprise Associates, made a $15.5 million Series A equity investment in AJJK Inc., the Wall Street Journal reported. The company, which is soon to be...
So bad is London’s housing crisis, which sees house prices make homeownership a pipe dream for many, a 2015 report by PWC reckons that by 2025 more than half of under 40 year olds will be living into rental properties. The answer, of course, is to build more affordable and/or social housing, but that hot political potato is continually kicked to into the long grass and, even at its most optimist...
The real estate cryptocurrency startup Deedcoin has gone live with its public token sale, the company told supporters via email Monday. The public launch follows a private sale in January and several delays (Deedcoin said it was originally scheduled to launch around Thanksgiving 2017). Deedcoin plans to disrupt real estate commissions by letting buyers and sellers pay agents partly with its own cr...
Real estate franchisor Keller Williams debuted an artificial intelligence-based virtual assistant and referrals platform today, announcing to the world it has every intention of thriving in a changing industry … Inman
H-E-B has acquired Favor, the on-demand delivery service out of Texas. Favor will continue to operate as an independent wholly-owned subsidiary of the grocery chain. The company first launched in 2014 at SXSW, bringing a Texas-tailored approach to on-demand delivery. While many on-demand services, such as Postmates, focus on high-density areas like NYC and San Francisco, Favor built a product that...
Real estate startups have a palpable presence on the third annual Forbes Fintech 50, featuring the top companies in the financial technology (fintech) sector. According to Forbes, $27.4 billion was invested in fintech startups in 2017, which marked a 16 percent increase from the previous year, and with seven real estate startups among the top 50, there’s a lot of money being spent to disrupt the...
New Books–February 2018 Posted in What's New, by Anne-Marie Siudzinski on February 15, 2018 NAR members and Association staff can borrow up to six electronic books, digital audios and/or videos at no cost, through the Virtual Library eBooks Collection. Members can also borrow up to three books for 30 days from the Library Catalog for a nominal fee of $10. Call Information Services at 800...
betaworks, the 10-year-old startup studio out of NYC, is today introducing a brand new business in the form of betaworks Studios. Think of betaworks Studios as a membership club for builders, offering entrepreneurs, artists, enginneers/developers, and creatives the space to work on their projects and get to know one another. Builders is the word that betaworks uses to describe its core demographic...
“To me, disruption is the result of taking a problem, standing it on its head and then solving it but with complete disregard for feasibility,” said Beekman Advisors Managing Partner Shekar Narasimhan. He said, in the old days, the best way to figure out how a car worked was to dismantle it and then put it back together—working backward, he called it. He said that over time this same model h...
If you have purchased a drone in the last year or two, there’s a high likelihood that it only emerges from your gadget closet a few times per year, if that. That probably doesn’t leave you feeling too great about your purchase, but it also leaves an expensive piece of professional equipment lying dormant that a lot of people could use. DroneBase is a startup that connects drone users with comm...