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brandonlin July 25, 2021
Funding to venture-backed proptech companies has surpassed pre-pandemic levels, according to Crunchbase data, with construction tech and property management startups leading the way. VC-backed real estate companies have raised $10.6 billion so far this year, up from the $8.3 billion that was raised during the same period last year, and higher than any year in that period in the past deca...
brandonlin July 22, 2021
It was hard enough to build apartments in high-cost cities like San Francisco before the pandemic triggered an exodus from urban neighborhoods, and now the economics are even tougher. But that's giving smaller cities a chance to catch up to the rental boom that previously lifted other non-coastal metros like Austin and Denver. For builders, it's a riskier calculation.
brandonlin July 22, 2021
Having announced a strategic partnership with Fifth Wall earlier this year after investing $85m in four of the VC firm’s funds, Ivanhoé Cambridge is a company determined to grasp the digital future of real estate. But for François Lacoursière, the company’s senior vice president of innovation, it’s not specifically a question of tech. “We shouldn’t be obsessed with tech,” he says...
brandonlin July 22, 2021
The modular housing company is to build the UK’s largest low-rise modular housing development – a 622-home scheme in Beeston, Nottingham. Health and beauty retailer Boots selected ilke Homes to unlock a 43-acre site close to its UK headquarters, which has been allocated for residential development since 2014.
brandonlin July 22, 2021
BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wunderflats, the leading platform for temporary furnished housing in Germany, announces a $21 million growth funding round to further pursue their vision to be Europe’s most customer-centric housing company where you can simply rent homes online.
brandonlin July 22, 2021
RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RealPage, Inc., a leading global provider of software and data analytics to the real estate industry, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire G5 Search Marketing, Inc. (“G5”), a leading pure-play provider of digital marketing, advertising and analytics solutions to ...
brandonlin July 22, 2021
Lateral, which is run by brothers Rob and Nick Beacroft and former CLS director Robert Crawley, is fitting out an office building in London and a life sciences building in Oxford to "category A+" standard. That designation means space is fully equipped with both furnitu...
brandonlin July 22, 2021
Do not confuse the shape of a fashionable residential tower with the artistic line drawn by an architect. It is the line of truce after a battle. A developer fights to expand his territory, his holy volume of rentable space, and the architect pushes back, trying to carve and sculpt that volume, and to make it beautiful. The developer wins, of course, giving us the box with an all-glass skin that i...
brandonlin July 22, 2021

Amid unprecedented housing demand in the US, a familiar story is taking hold in Canada: rapidly rising prices, record high home values, heated bidding wars, and preemptive all-cash offers. Remarkably, Canadian home values have grown 39% over the last five years and 8...

brandonlin July 22, 2021
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