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If you’ve ever remodeled any part of your home, you know the headache that comes along with the process. It’s not nearly as glamorous when you don’t have the deep pockets (or expertise) that HGTV’s Chip and Joanna Gaines have to deal with unexpected problems. Kyle Zink, the first marketing hire at Square, found this out firsthand after purchasing a home in Southern California a few years ...

Google’s chief executive officer has left no doubt about how important he thinks artificial intelligence will be to humanity. “AI is one of the most profound things we’re working on as humanity. It’s more profound than fire or electricity,” Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai said in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday.

This week witnessed several relatively large deals across a variety of countries, where deals in Morocco, Germany, the UK and North America dominated headlines. The majority of this week’s capital went to companies that aim to transform the hospitality, retail and residential categories through AI, SaaS, cloud and other technology platforms.

The world of parking lots is changing across the globe — and in many cases, it’s making room for housing. As local authorities across the world try to curb car numbers in city centers, parking lots are becoming less important in certain areas, while sitting on valuable — and scarce — land. As a result, they have been selling quickly, especially in urban areas. And with many global cities...

Cherre, the NYC-based real estate data and analytics platform, today announced a new data partnership with AirDNA, the industry's leading provider of short-term rental data. In this partnership, Cherre will integrate AirDNA's short-term rental market data into its platform, enabling mutual customers to seamlessly connect vacation rental data and analytics with third-party and public data to fuel ...

HousingAnywhere, a Rotterdam, The Netherlands-based housing platform, acquired Studenten WG, a Hanover, Germany-based classifieds website. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. With the acquisition, HousingAnywhere, which has an existing leadership position in cities like Berlin, Vienna, and Rotterdam, will immediately gain market share in an array of German cities. Following...

The Future of Real Estate Summit took place at the Hotel Van Zandt last Wednesday in the Rainey Street District. The 4-Star boutique hotel, which opened in 2015, is a symbol of the transformation that has taken place in downtown Austin in the last decade. The neighborhood once filled with single-family homes is now an entertainment district with bars and restaurants and several high-rise hotels a...

Truss, the first online marketplace for coworking and office space, has hired Kathryn Garrison as vice president of sales. Garrison has more than 15 years of sales and business development experience. Most recently, she was a senior director of strategic partnerships and business development at Brookfield Properties, exceeding national growth expectations. She also was a national sales manager in ...

TestFit Inc., the world’s first powerful building configuration software leveraging practical generative design, announced today it has secured $2 million in seed funding from Parkway Venture Capital LLC. Experts in rapid real estate prototyping, architectural site analysis, and feasibility studies simulation and automation, the Dallas-based startup plans to expand its multifamily housing custom...

Placer.ai has announced that it raised $12m in its Series A round of funding, which was led by JBV Capital. There was additional participation from Aleph, Reciprocal Ventures, OCA Ventures, the start-up’s existing investors and a group of new strategic investors. The funding will be used to help grow Placer.ai’s operations in the US, and to expand the company’s R&D efforts to drive new ...