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Burn, baby, burn. Real estate-focused fintech startups feel the heat

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Higher interest rates mean far fewer purchases and refinances — and lots of business for fintechs operating in the real estate industry. Factor in that more people were spending more time at home than ever due to COVID shelter-in-place orders, home took on new meaning. You can read my story on that here ).

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Proptech in Review: Investors predict slower growth in 2023

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But in the past few decades, the lens through which we view real estate and property development has slowly blurred. So in order to pull back that veil, towards the end of 2022, we decided to take an in-depth look into the trends and tech in property development and construction.

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Proptech in Review: 3 investors explain how finance-focused proptech startups can survive the downturn

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Startups operating in the financial side of the real estate tech market suddenly faced a surge in demand, and many departed on hiring sprees to keep up. We’re widening our lens, looking for more investors to participate in TechCrunch surveys , where we poll top professionals about challenges in their industry.

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YC, Khosla-backed Atmos lands $12.5M to design custom dream homes

TechCrunch

Founded in 2018, San Francisco-based Atmos touts that with its tech, homebuyers are able to select land, design a home within their budget and approve the design using 3D tech. Atmos says its technology allows buyers to see “exactly what can be built on any specific lot depending on the size, shape and development requirements.”

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Investors discuss how labor shortage is shaking up the construction tech stack

TechCrunch

To get a clear picture of where construction tech stands today, we spoke with five active investors in the space. Due to the pandemic, many contech workers were unable to freely visit their job sites and realized they had less visibility than they’d like into what was happening onsite. “Due

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Biosafety startup R-Zero acquires CoWorkr to create an ‘OS for the workplace’

TechCrunch

Elizabeth Redmond and Keenan May, both co-founders of CoWorkr, will remain on in full-time roles, where they will run a corporate real estate initiative, and develop an IoT capacity. . The majority are moving to a hybrid working scenario and that means you know they really need occupancy information,” she continues. “The

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Why A Great Website Design Is Important For Your Real Estate Business?

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Sending a real-estate email newsletter or drip sequence needs a fair amount of work. Listen: You can build lists of thousand of peoples around you in your real estate newsletter. These useful tips will provide you with how to optimize your real estate website design for the organic mobile traffic that’s hitting your site.