CRETech
November 14, 2019
Companies using technology to make rapid cash offers to home sellers are typically paying their customers close to market value, a new study found. The study’s conclusion is likely to be reassuring for sellers who are considering using so-called iBuyers instead of traditional real-estate agents. But it raises questions about the long-term sustainability of the iBuying business.
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Companies using technology to make rapid cash offers to home sellers are typically paying their customers close to market value, a new study found. The study’s conclusion is likely to be reassuring for sellers who are considering using so-called iBuyers instead of traditional real-estate agents. But it raises questions about the long-term sustainability of the iBuying business.
The developer touts this as a step forward in building a futuristic "mini-city" equipped with vertical gardens and advanced smart buildings featuring self-healing concrete and energy-generating materials, though some details remain unknown. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports there is no guarantee the deal will close, and noted the planned amenities are described using "an arsenal of buzz words."...
The parallels between hotel chain unicorn Oyo and office-sharing unicorn WeWork -- whose value plunged from $47 billion to "a pretty high probability of being a zero," according to a veteran investor after seeing its IPO filing -- point to their common DNA and raise similar questions. SoftBank Group, directly and through its Vision Fund, is heavily invested in both.
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“Knotel has been growing quite fast, we have grown almost fourfold in the last year," Knotel co-founder and Chairman Edward Shenderovich said at a future of flex office leadership event hosted by Convene in New York City on Tuesday. "Given what happened with WeWork we'll probably slow down. There's no reason to grow that fast." Shenderovich said the company — which reportedly has some 800K S...
Convoy, the digital freight network that connects truckers with shippers, has raised $400 million in a Series D funding round as it aims to scale its business amid an increasingly competitive market. The funding round brings Convoy’s post-money valuation to $2.75 billion. The round was co-led by Generation Investment Management and previous Convoy investor T. Rowe Pri...
There's a new autonomous driving startup on the block, and it just brought on one of the most sought-after investors in Silicon Valley. That startup, isee, announced $15 million in Series A funding from Founders Fund on Monday. Although Founders Fund has backed a self-driving startup in the past, this is its first foray into the red hot automated logistics and shipping industry, given isee's foc...
SMARTEN Spaces, which offers an end-to-end digital platform for space management, has raised US$12 million in Series A funding from Hong Kong’s Symphony International Holdings. The Singapore-headquartered property tech startup digitises services for enterprise offices, commercial real estate, as well as co-working, co-living and warehousing spaces. The fresh capital from Symphony will accelera...
Real estate technology platform, MoxiWorks has acquired Imprev, an automated marketing service. Imprev’s services will be implemented in MoxiWork’s products, software and platform to improve brokerage processes.
Orbital Insight, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based the geospatial analytics software company, closed a $50m Series D financing. The round was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Clearvision Ventures, with participation from new investors Invicta Growth, Bunge Ventures Ltd, Chevron Technology Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Tech Pioneers Fund, and others, and returning investors GV, Geodesic Capital, SKY Perfect JSAT, ...