Apartment-hotel startup Locale raises $11M in Series A
Locale plans to use the capital to bolster its staff, expand to new markets and upgrade its product offerings.
The search for housing in San Francisco continues — this time, with subterranean ‘sleeping pods’
Development company Elsey Partners has proposed two new apartment buildings in San Francisco's Mission District that seek to provide affordable housin…
Real estate fundraising plunges to lowest level in 6 years
The amount of capital raised by real estate private equity funds shrunk from $35 billion in the fourth quarter of 2018 to $18 billion in 2019.
Would you live in a house made from living bacteria?
A team of researchers from the University of Colorado engineered "living building materials" made out of bacteria, begging the question, "Would you li…
‘Expendables’ star Jason Statham sells Malibu estate for $18.5M
Branden Williams and Rayni Williams of Hilton & Hyland represented both the sellers and the buyer.
Whopping 3.9M more homes needed to meet buyer demand
From 2012 to 2019, builders constructed 5.9 million homes — far fewer than what’s needed for the 9.8 million households created during the same time p…
Rent prices still spiking in Phoenix: CoreLogic
According to the latest CoreLogic data released Tuesday, rent prices for single-family properties in November grew by 3 percent nationwide.
The continuing rise of co-living
Millennials and those in Generation Z have only been too enthusiastic to embrace this concept, for financial and social reasons.
Agent/broker perspective: Who should brokers back when teams break up?
In this monthly column, Anthony Askowitz explores a hypothetical real estate situation from both sides of the broker/agent dynamic. This month: How ca…
Pulse: How could your brokerage be improved? 15 suggestions from agents
Readers sounded off on changes they wish their brokerages would make. Suggestions varied, but they largely boiled down to better treatment, more suppo…
From indie to Realogy acquisition, how Climb Real Estate almost didn’t happen
Climb Real Estate Co-Founder Mark Choey shares the behind-the-scenes story of how he and Chris Lim built the vibrant indie brokerage and ultimately ma…
Preservationists want Jeffrey Epstein’s New York mansion to be a museum
Groups fighting the Frick Collection's expansion want the institution to purchase the mansion as an alternative to their current plans.
Colorado MLSs team up to share data
A group of Colorado multiple listing services announced Monday that they have teamed up to share their data, continuing a trend in the industry that h…
Chrysler legend Lee Iacocca’s Bel Air home hits the market for $26M
The 11,000-square-foot, Tuscan-style home has hosted greats such as Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra.
3 tech giants are teaming up to make smart-home devices easier to use
Amazon, Apple and Google have teamed up with the Zigbee Alliance to create a single, royalty-free wireless protocol that will make smart-home devices…
Inman Connect New York welcomes international groups
Every year, nearly 4,000 real estate professionals invest in themselves and their businesses by attending an Inman Connect event. And many times, they…
Why this brokerage enforces a productivity standard
At JP & Associates Realtors, a 100 percent commission brokerage, agents need to close eight transactions a year, according to the CEO of the comp…
