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brandonlin September 05, 2021
Retail investors flocked to the single-family rental market during the pandemic. Now, even people who can’t afford a down payment are getting an invitation. Roofstock, an online marketplace for single-family rental properties, will start a fractionalization service this year after testing it in 2019, aiming to capture a slice of the surge in retail demand, Roofstock founder and CEO Gary Beasl...
brandonlin September 05, 2021
The apartment industry is finding success with taking new routes to get in front of prospective renters and during these high-driving times to fill vacancies. Lisa Trosien, ApartmentExpert; and Kate Good, Hunington ; shared best practices about what they see is working today during their “Apartment All Stars” session Thursday at National Apartment Association’s Apartmentalize Conference i...
brandonlin September 05, 2021
Miloš Halečka, Innovations Director at MiddleCap, poses the question “how do we make the environment better with our buildings?” and says the answer relies heavily on technology and data.
brandonlin September 05, 2021

Flat.mx, which wants to build a real estate “super app” for Latin America, has closed on a $20 million Series A round of funding.

Anthemis and 500 Startups co-led the investment, which included participation from ALLVP and Expa. Previously, Flat.mx had raised a total of $10 million in equity and $25 million in debt. Other backers include 
brandonlin September 05, 2021
When Caitlin Rood entered the affordable housing industry in 2013 as an experienced sustainability professional, she had a plan. She would start with low-hanging fruit, accumulate savings, reinvest in deeper opportunities and repeat across the portfolio of Mercy Housing, which she ended up serving as national director of sustainability. It was a strategy that worked for her in other industrie...
brandonlin September 05, 2021
The blank-check boom has turned into a rout. More than six months after the SPAC craze crested, a broad selloff has wiped about $75 billion off the value of companies that came public through special-purpose acquisition companies, ...
brandonlin September 02, 2021
During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, proptech startup Sugar Living, helped enhance the at-home quarantine experience for those stuck inside. Now, the Los Angeles-based startup has an...
brandonlin September 02, 2021

Pancake brought in a $350,000 seed round to develop its home design platform that leverages furniture you already have in your home with a designer’s fresh eye on your space.

Maria Jose Castro and Roberto Meza, both from Costa Rica, started the company in 2020, based on their own experience of transitioning to work-from-home...
brandonlin September 02, 2021
To say cybersecurity is booming would be an understatement. We’re talking about security companies’ skyrocketing valuations ($524.1 million on average) and the massive amount of funding ($12.2 billion just this year so far) investors are pouring into the industry, of course. Because in terms of s...
brandonlin September 02, 2021
Join CREtech Climate for an exclusive webinar celebrating the upcoming book launch of Dr. Parag Khanna’s MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us. Greg Lindsay, Director of Applied Research at NewCities and CREtech Climate Leadership Board Member, will join Khanna to look at the forces, such as the climate crisis and disruptive technologies, that are pr...