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Despite plenty of uncertainty swirling around Instacart and its complex relationship with Whole Foods — now owned by Amazon — investors still seem to not be too worried, and are pouring a fresh big round of financing into the startup that values it at $4.2 billion. Instacart said it raised $200 million in a new funding round this morning led by Coatue Management, as well as Glade Brook Capital...

Brooklyn rental and roommate startup Nooklyn raised $825,000 in a round of seed funding, the platform announced Friday. Nooklyn lets users search available rooms, apartments and roommates in Brooklyn. Users can search for an available room in an apartment or match with potential roommates to try to find an apartment together. "Our mission is to fix the experience of finding apartments," ...

Community gardens, urban agriculture, or cohousing communities are nothing new. But so-called “agrihoods” certainly are, with developers quickly learning that incorporating healthy food in development projects can pay dividends. The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative, a nonprofit founded in 2011, defines an agrihood as an alternative neighborhood growth model that positions agriculture as the c...

One way malls are filling empty spaces is with Dave & Buster’s, according to CNBC. Manhattan real estate sales have stalled after the passage of tax reform, the Wall Street Journal reports. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry. After Tax Overhaul, Manhattan Real-Estate Sales Seize Up “The tax overhaul and its elimination of some tax advantage...

For the the heavily regulated real estate industry to see significant adoption of blockchain--the underlying system that powers popular cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum--there needs to be reassurance that these new technologies are legal, secure, and above-board. That's why Fifth Wall Ventures, an L.A.-based venture capital firm focused on real estate technology and which has inv...

Jerome Powell was sworn in as the new Federal Reserve chairman, reports MarketWatch. Department store chain Bon-Ton Stores has filed for Chapter 11 protection, according to CNBC. These are among today’s just reads from around the commercial real estate industry. Jerome Powell Sworn In as Fed Chairman “Jerome Powell officially took the helm of the Federal Reserve Board on Monday, replacing Jane...

It is 2018, the year that cryptocurrency will begin to takeover the world’s payment systems. In my last article, I explained what cryptocurrency is, how to buy it, and some of the hundreds of retailers that use it. In the second half of 2017, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin made incredible increases in price, and those who held it saw a huge payday. Of course, the moguls who have ma...

Sidewalk Labs announced the launch of a new spinoff company, Coord, that will be a connective tissue for street-related data, government, private companies, emerging mobility services, and the people who live in cities.  Coord is an API layer for transportation and a coordination platform for mobility services, navigation tools, and urban infrastructure. The company can help a ride-hail service m...

Airbnb has announced that an IPO will not be happening this year, and the company's CFO and former Wall Street executive Laurence Tosi is stepping down from his position. In the end, Tosi and Airbnb founder Brian Chesky simply wanted different things. Tosi was previously CFO at Blackstone Group before joining Airbnb in 2015. The Wall Street executive didn't fit Airbnb's progressive ...

Is Bitcoin getting a little played out? In our cover story this issue, we look at the new technology that has the potential to revolutionize real estate — way beyond the get-rich-quick cryptocurrency fad that has received so much attention. While Bitcoin has been used in the occasional property deal, reporter Konrad Putzier breaks down the real game-changing technologies with the greatest potent...