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FIRE movement: Financial Independence, Retire Early

FIRE movement: Financial Independence, Retire Early

Rentals: Real estate and personal finances - using rental properties

Rentals: Real estate and personal finances - using rental properties

Miami Beach real estate - construction issues, building collapse

Miami Beach real estate - construction issues, building collapse

Taxes and Real Estate, Housing - Renovating, Upgrading your Home

Taxes and Real Estate, Housing - Renovating, Upgrading your Home

Opendoor competitors - iBuyer model of Online housing and Real estate

Opendoor competitors - iBuyer model of Online housing and Real estate

3D Printing Homes - real estate, construction

A collection of articles about 3D Printing Homes - real estate, construction

Self storage business and real estate

Self storage business and real estate

Real estate and personal finances - flipping houses, renovation of properties, homes

Real estate and personal finances - flipping houses, renovation of properties, homes

Zeus Living - Airbnb competitor, alternative for renting housing, apartments

Zeus Living - Airbnb competitor, alternative for renting housing, apartments

Home Appraisals - for buying / selling a house

Home Appraisals - for buying / selling a house

Purchasing Real Estate - guides for buying / selling a house

Purchasing Real Estate - guides for buying / selling a house

Home Inspection - for buying / selling a house

Home Inspection - for buying / selling a house

Real Estate, Housing - Renovating, Upgrading your Home

Real Estate, Housing - Renovating, Upgrading your Home

Retrofitting Old Buildings to be more energy efficient, resilient

Retrofitting Old Buildings to be more energy efficient, resilient

Flood Factor - Tool for measuring Flood risk - for real estate insurance, risk and uncertainty

Tools for measuring Flood risk - for real estate insurance, risk and uncertainty

Airbnb - cities and affordable housing

Airbnb - cities and affordable housing

Tools for measuring Flood risk - for real estate insurance, risk and uncertainty

Tools for measuring Flood risk - for real estate insurance, risk and uncertainty

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Article

Indian firms are flocking to the United Arab Emirates. Asian commerce.

Forget Mumbai. Dubai is the place to be. Why Indian business is flocking to the United Arab Emirates. All of this suggest that the Emirates is evol... (2023)


Article

Sonder Slashes Workforce by More Than 20 Percent, Including Top Tech Exec - Skift

Sonder has laid off 21 percent of corporate roles, and 7 percent of frontline roles, in a bid to improve cash flow. (2022)


Article

How land value tax could fix the housing crisis | World Economic Forum

Land value tax incentivizes landowners to improve their land and has been shown to boost housing supply, experts say. Land value tax is a tax on... (2022)


Article

Sonder Takes Next Step Toward Stock Market Listing in Mid-January

If all goes according to plan, quasi-short-term company Sonder could see its shares trading on Nasdaq in mid-January. (2021)


Article

Spanish proptech Clikalia secures $518M in debt & equity to advance iBuyer model in Europe

Spanish proptech Clikalia has secured $518 million in debt and equity in what is among the largest venture capital rounds raised in Spain to date. ... (2021)


Article

Fractional: Real estate. Fractions aren’t enough of an answer to divisions – TechCrunch

Fractional, a startup that wants to make it easier for friends (and strangers) to co-own real estate together. alternative investing is built on... (2021)


Article

Construction techniques. The rise of 3D-printed houses

Your next home could be a printout | Science & technology. Mighty Buildings … (2021)


Article

Woman sues L.A. after being struck by a car on a street where tents block the sidewalk

The Valley Village resident said she had gone to the 101 overpass on Gower Street to distribute sandwiches and water to people living at the encamp... (2021)


Article

Balkan money-laundering is booming | The Economist

The property market makes a good place to hide ill-gotten gains | Europe (2021)


Article

OpenUnit raises a $1M seed round to be the online face of self-storage – TechCrunch

How are mom-and-pop self-storage facilities meant to keep up with the tech offered by the massive, ever-growing chains? That’s a key part of the id... (2021)


Article

The Man Who Retired at 27: Why You Should Consider House-Hacking

Way back in the olden days, people used to be amazed at my life story. I was “The Man Who Retired at 30”, and it was so unusual that it would show ... (2020)


Article

Mortgage is suddenly sexy as SoftBank pumps $500M in Better.com at a $6B valuation – TechCrunch

Digital mortgage lender Better.com has raised a $500 million round from Japanese investment conglomerate SoftBank that values the company at $6 bil... (2021)


Article

Neighbor raises $53M for self-storage marketplace after 5x YoY revenue growth – TechCrunch

Neighbor, which operates a self-storage marketplace, announced Wednesday that it has raised $53 million in a Series B round of funding. Fifth Wall ... (2021)


Article

Compass files S-1, reveals $3.7B in revenue on net loss of $270M – TechCrunch

Compass, the real-estate brokerage startup backed by roughly $1.6 billion in venture funding, filed its S-1 Monday. The move comes just under one y... (2021)


Article

House Prices and Local Spending on Public School Teachers | NBER

A 1 percent increase in spending on teacher salaries increases house prices by nearly 2 percent, while increased spending on capital projects has l... (2021)


Article

Opinion | California Is Making Liberals Squirm - The New York Times

If progressivism can’t work there, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else? (2021)


Article

Milo, a Miami fintech startup, raises $6M seed round - and it's hiring - Refresh Miami

Milo, a Miami-based digital banking and home mortgage startup serving international consumers, announced Wednesday it has raised a $6 million seed ... (2021)


Article

FAQs about Home Inspection | American Society of Home Inspectors, ASHI

Learn more about the FAQs about Home Inspection. (2021)


Article

Home Appraisals: What They Are and How the Process Works

An appraiser uses comparables to arrive at the home value. You have a few options if the appraisal comes lower than the sales price. (2021)


Article

Checklist for first-time home buyers (infographic) - Opendoor Guides

If you're feeling overwhelmed trying to understand the process of buying a home, you're not alone. Our infographic helps you to make sense of the j... (2021)


Article

What to look for when buying a house | Opendoor Guides

Are you dreaming of moving into a beautiful new home? Our in-depth guide provides helpful tips on what to consider when buying a house. (2021)


Article

Home inspection checklist for buyers - Opendoor Guides

Having your own home inspection checklist as a buyer can help you get the most value of your inspection report. Get all the tips in our guide. (2021)


Article

How Fear Took Over the American Suburbs - Citylab, Bloomberg

How Fear Took Over the American Suburbs The new book “Neighborhood of Fear” shows the rise of suburban vigilantes and NIMBYs in the late part of... (2021)


Article

Renovation Loans Expand Your Homebuying Options - Mortgage

A home renovation loan lets you buy a home and fix it up, which can make finding a starter home a little easier. One mortgage combines purchase and... (2018)


Article

2020 First Street Foundation Flood Model Methodology Overview

A technical breakdown of the methodology behind the First Street Foundation Flood Model, a nationwide, probabilistic flood model. (2020)


Article

Realtor.com Integrates Flood Factor Data to Help Home Shoppers Understand a Property’s Flood Risk

To help consumers understand risk and take necessary precautions, realtor.com® includes flood risk information on for-sale and off-market properties. (2020)


Article

The 2020 election reveals Nextdoor’s messy politics

Want to see how polarized America is? Look no further than Nextdoor. (2020)


Article

The next economic crisis: Empty retail space

As tenants stop paying and shrink their offices, commercial real estate is cratering. (2020)


Article

Hurricanes destroy beachside homes, but not this one

On October 10, Hurricane Michael spun Category 4 winds around the upper reaches of the Sunshine State, but one structure withstood the storm, despi... (2020)


Article

Bloomberg - San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.

San Francisco’s sky-high apartment rents are falling fast. The median monthly rate for a studio in the city tumbled 31% in September from a year... (2020)


Video

Using real estate investing, This attorney plans to retire by 42 and live virtually tax-free | FIRE Starters

Seattle attorney Sylvia Hall worked off six figures in student debt on her path to financial independence. Now, she plans to use real estate to pay... (2024)


Video

Why Everywhere in the US is Starting to Look the Same

Why Everywhere in the US is Starting to Look the Same (2022)


Video

This Town Was Paradise, Then Everyone Started Working From Home

Freed from traditional offices, remote workers are relocating all over the country, fueling "Zoom booms" in remote towns. In Crested Butte, Colorad... (2021)


Video

Evictions (housing) - Coronavirus IX, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight With evictions on the rise due to coronavirus, John Oliver discusses the long struggle with housing in the US, why it’s gotten ... (2020)


Video

Inside Hong Kong’s cage homes - Vox

Vox Published on Aug 15, 2018 When houses are the size of parking spaces. Hong Kong is the most expensive housing market in the world. It has ... (2018)


Video

When Software Eats the Real (Estate) World - a16z

Buying a home is in many ways the pinnacle of the American dream. And yet the way things work today, it's a painful process. Real estate agents, br... (2018)


Video

Do I Need To Buy A House? | PBS

The importance of homeownership is still embedded in American culture, but actual homeownership has dropped to its lowest level since 1967. How sho... (2018)


Podcast

Did Hurricane Ian Bust Florida’s Housing Boom? - The Daily | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. Since Hurricane Ian devastated southwestern Florida last month, residents have filed a record num... (2022)


Podcast

Making old buildings resilient to climate change requires new financial tools - Marketplace

It's one thing to install new energy systems. It's another to get the money to do it. Donnel Baird, BlocPower’s founder and CEO, said retrofitti... (2020)


Podcast

Millions of Americans face stigma of moving back in with their parents

As the financial crisis deepens, many adults are moving back home. But the trend started before the pandemic. (2020)


Podcast

Real Estate in a Pandemic: Homeowners and Buyers (Part 1) - a16z

This episode is the first in a two-part series that examines the pandemic’s impact on real estate. Part 1 focuses on prospective home buyers, selle... (2020)


Podcast

An Investment Expert Says Florida Homeowners Should Sell Property Now As Climate Impacts Worsen | WLRN

An expert on the impact of climate change on financial markets has advice for anyone thinking of buying a home in Florida: don’t. Spencer Glendon o... (2019)


Podcast

What’s next for WeWork, an episode from Financial Times on Spotify - Jan 2019

SoftBank changed course when it scaled back plans for an investment in WeWork from $16bn to $2bn. The FT’s Eric Platt spoke with US business editor... (2019)


Podcast

The New Housing Crisis: Shut Out Of The Market : NPR

Ten years after a housing collapse during the Great Recession, home values have rebounded but there are too few homes on the market. Buyers face in... (2018)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: Real Estate — Ownership, Asset, Economy – Andreessen Horowitz

The largest asset class in the United States is owner-occupied real estate, yet options for homeowners accessing this are very binary right now: ei... (2017)


Website

Kindred - Travel: Home Swapping & Exchange Network for Members-Only

Experience authentic travel through Kindred's home exchange community. Swap homes and explore the world for less. (2023)


Website

Housing Inspection - Standard of Practice

| American Society of Home Inspectors, ASHI ASHI's Standard of Practice is a reference tool to guide inspectors through thorough home inspectio... (2021)


Website

Flood Factor - Find Your Home's Flood Factor

Flood Factor is a free online tool created by the nonprofit First Street Foundation that makes it easy for Americans to find their property’s past ... (2020)


Website

Flood Zone Maps - Miami-Dade County

The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) detailed digital flood hazard maps reflect current flood risks for Miami-Dade County. (2020)


SlideShare

Stanford CS 007-09: Personal Finance for Engineers / Real Estate

These are the slides from the 9th session of the Stanford University class, CS 007 "Personal Finance for Engineers" This seminar covers real estate... (2018)


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