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WeWork’s purchase of Chinese co-working startup Naked Hub marks its sixth acquisition in the past eight months.

Since raising $4.4 billion from SoftBank — whose CEO has told founder Adam ...

Silicon Valley- and Irvine-based Ten-X has launched a new dashboard for Ten-X Commercial to enhance the broker, seller and buyer experience. Ten-X and other online platforms like Zillow, CoStar’s LoopNet and StreetEasy have long struggled to attract more brokers to use their products for commercial deals. Many brokers prefer more hands-on deals. Ten-X Senior Director of Product Marketing Tony...

Bitcoin miners, who use a lot of computing power to run calculations to secure the cryptocurrency, and thus favor places with cheaper electricity, have recently gravitated to a number of rural counties east of Seattle to set up shop. The miners came looking to buy or rent residential properties with garages or other detached structures, or unused commercial structures, in which to set up their ope...

SoftBank's Futuristic Vision Fund Takes on the Real (Estate) WorldSoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son likes to talk about 300-year timeframes for his investments.Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesSharesharetweetcommentemailAuthor: Erin GriffithErin Griffithbusiness04.16.1807:00 amSoftBank's Futuristic Vision Fund Takes on the Real (Estate) WorldSoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son likes to talk about 300-year ti...

Faced with an uptick of “whisper listings” — for-sale properties that never officially hit the open market — the Real Estate Board of New York is taking a hard look at the rules governing how residential agents share information with each other. Members of REBNY’s residential board of directors are considering a proposed change to the universal co-brokerage agreement that would requir...

WeWork has completed the £580M acquisition of Devonshire Square in London — but not in the way anyone expected. The structure of the deal and the way it was completed gives insight into the way the $20B flexible workspace giant will go about future property acquisitions, and how major global investors could forge new partnerships with the company to share in its explosive growth. WeWork excha...

According to the car sharing app's Northern boss, Uber can transform Manchester. Innovative partnerships with landlords and developers will unlock land and change geographies, whilst big data can unblock transport nodes. The theory applies not just to Manchester, but to any city in the world. The ambition is grand, the potential for change huge. But how will it work in practice? Uber's head of No...

Honest Buildings, a startup that provides a project management platform for real estate owners, has received an additional $3.5 million in funding, expanding its previously announced Series B financing round to $25 million, Commercial Observer has learned.