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When the U.S. housing bubble burst more than a decade ago, it brought the global economy to its knees. It turned out that the multiyear housing boom through the early 2000s was hiding skeletons. Homebuyers, driven by a fear of missing out on home price gains, were stretching themselves well beyond their financial means. And zealous lenders were giving out mortgages (or better put, subprime mortgag...
In this episode of The Real Market Podcast, Chris Rising chats with Gregory Dewerpe, Founder of A/O PropTech.
For the companies that would occupy the office of the future, the world is a strange and unpredictable place.
This is not your parents’ workplace. Nor is it your own workplace of, say, 20 years ago (or make up your own timeline). It’s not just a row of desks, computers, a phone and a coffee machine. Maybe.
SmartRent’s beaten-down shares got some relief Thursday after the smart-home technology provider reported the highest quarterly revenue in its five-year history.
Making money out of modular housebuilding is proving harder than its champions thought.
High hopes were pinned on modular construction as a cheap and efficient way to scale up housebuilding. But simply being a good idea isn’t enough to assure financial success, if the appointment of administrators at House — Urban Splash House Holdings Group, is a guide.
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Better.com CEO Vishal Garg has acknowledged to employees that he “personally guaranteed” the $750 million cash infusion provided to the online mortgage lender last November in an email seen by TechCrunch.
WeWork Inc.’s first-quarter loss narrowed sharply as gross desk sales reached prepandemic levels with the gradual return of employees in the U.S. to in-person work.
The shared-office company said Thursday its top line rose 28% from a year ago, with 166,000 desks sold, ...
Using terminology like Proptech and Fintech (popular buzzwords in today’s tech scene) would have elicited raised eyebrows only 16 years ago. During that time period, technology was only marginally accepted throughout businesses and economies.
Israel-based pre-construction AI and computer vision startup, Firmus, has raised $4.5m in seed funding.
The company says that the fresh funding will help to bring data-driven decision-making capabilities and AI-based risk management to the early stages of construction projects.
Multidwelling units (MDUs) and multifamily properties are buildings designed to house several different families and contained in a single building or several buildings within one complex. The building is typically divided into separate housing units and is owned by one entity.