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Lauren September 03, 2020
On Thursday, the online retailer revealed its new 
Lauren September 03, 2020
Real-estate searches are looking a lot different lately. For years, home values have been greatly influenced not only by finished square footage and acreage, but also by walk scores and community. The pandemic is turning those factors on their head—at least for now.
Lauren September 02, 2020
With some of the largest tech players such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft bolstering their presence in Seattle, the city’s affordable and workforce housing inventory has always been tight. When we add coronavirus-induced unemployment to the mix, this segment of the housing mar...
Lauren September 02, 2020
Google announced on Tuesday a proposal to build more than a million square feet of offices and up to 1,850 new homes in the East Whisman area of Mountain View, creating an entire neighborhood in the center of a sprawling office park.
Lauren August 31, 2020
Blackstone Group Inc., which led Wall Street’s initial foray into the single-family rental business, is making a new investment in suburban houses at a time when the Covid-19 pandemic is pressuring traditional commercial real estate.
Lauren August 31, 2020
The line between traditional iBuyer and brokerage is getting ever-so-blurry for venture-backed startup Opendoor. The company, armed with $4.3 billion in debt and equity funding, is looking to bring aboard real estate agents in Phoenix, Arizona, to support its “Home Reserve” iBuying platform, 
marianne3 August 28, 2020
When Brynne McNulty Rojas moved to Bogotá, Colombia four years ago, she encountered a fragmented real estate industry that lacked a central database for consumers to find or compare homes. Rojas was struck by the magnitude of the problem; she was also inspired by the opportunity.
Lauren August 26, 2020
Realtor.com has become the first site to disclose public and private data about flood risk for every home listing, but its competitors are resistant to follow, arguing that the disclo...
Lauren August 26, 2020
Zillow’s recent Urban Suburban Market Report opens by asking: Are people fleeing the cities for greener suburban pastures? The short answer is no, the report says: “Some faint signals may have emerged in certain places, but by and large, the data show that suburban housing mark...
Lauren August 25, 2020
As of 9 AM this morning in New York, over 435 of you have registered from over 60 organizations and two dozen countries, and more are joining every hour. Over the next two weeks, we expect those numbers to more than double, as over 100 projects will be formed to tackle some of the most pressing problems in the world’s real estate industry. Welcome to the CREtech Reimagining Real Estate Challenge...