Hippo, an insurance technology startup, is in talks to go public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
In the real estate world, cutting carbon emissions and making money are often presented as an either/or choice: You can do one or the other, but not both. But a new fund being raised by the world’s biggest
The SPAC mania continues unabated, with new SPACs being filed with the SEC on an almost hourly basis at times. SoftBank, the Japanese telecom conglomerate which has also been running the gigantic Vision Fund and its successor, doesn’t want to be left out. Yesterday, it filed back-to-back SPAC registration statements for two new blank-check companies.
Watch this presentation to learn more about PropertyQuants' "Applying Data Science & Machine Learning to Real Estate" and see walkthroughs of previous participants' projects and demos of the types of analyses participants will be able to build with the techniques covered in the course.
One of the positive impacts of the pandemic on new-home construction has been the increase in the number of renters who now want to become homeowners, representing a potential new-home demand of 7.6 million. Millennial renters lead the way—58% of them say COVID-19 has made them more inclined to want to own a home, according to the America at Home Study, wave two, conducted in October. For home b...
It was January 2020 when Mace pledged to be a net zero carbon business by the end of the year. Just a few months later the world faced one of its greatest challenges – a global pandemic tipping many economies into steep recessions.
On February 04, 2021, Openpath announced an extended partnership with Cisco Meraki to jointly deliver cloud-based security and access control solutions. Under the partnership, Openpath will integrate its access control capabilities with Meraki's video management systems (VMS) and network security management solution. Together, Openpath and Cisco are targeting IT and facilities management (FM) exec...
Those who escaped big cities for rural towns during the pandemic are turning to co-living spaces out of sheer loneliness, reported Konrad Putzier for The Wall Street Jour...
In 2020, nearly $24 billion in venture capital poured into companies creating new technology products or innovative business models for the real estate market.