As VR becomes increasingly mainstream, real
estate startups like Matterport are taking off.
Not exact matches
In a South American market
like Santiago, your money goes further, says John Njoku, an American whose real
estate intelligence
startup, Kwelia, participated in Start - Up Chile in 2012.
Tech companies
like Zillow and Trulia have taken small steps to open up real
estate to buyers without a realtor being involved, but there are also
startups emerging to automate processes for investors, brokers and property managers.
Corcoran, best known as the «Queen of New York Real
Estate» and the founder of the Corcoran Group, has a rich portfolio that includes
startups like Wanderu and Zirtual.
Lack of fresh investments from VCs and the continued slowdown in real
estate market has forced such
startups to relook at their business strategy with some merging to survive and others
like IndiaHomes shutting down.
Taking changes a step further,
startups like RealtyShares are taking the marketplace lending model to real
estate investors.
This feature allows you to issue tokens for various utility uses such as rewards or event tickets, but also for things
like shares or equity in traditional assets,
startups, venture funds, and even real
estate.
UPDATED, 4:16 p.m., April 14: For an ambitious real
estate tech
startup, bringing on a well - connected former governor as an adviser sounds
like a match made in heaven.
But the list might include gold, silver, stocks of mining companies that focus on these two metals, hedge funds, mutual funds that endeavor to act
like hedge funds, timber, farmland, private equity funds that buy privately held companies, residential and commercial rental properties, real
estate investment trusts, commodity funds that buy everything from agriculture to energy futures contracts, stocks of energy and natural - resource companies, venture capital funds that invest in
startup companies, and even bitcoin.
Sydney is also the
startup capital of Australia, and the government is determined to promote this trend further through projects
like the redevelopment of Bays Precinct, a former industrial
estate, into a tech and innovation hub.
Aaron Street: Yeah I mean I think this can be taken too far, so if you had an example
like Brad where he only represents criminal defendants and therefore there's no risk of him having a conflict come through the site when he's getting actual information about actual cases, but you could see in a litigation, let's say a family law lawyer, if their website were trying to collect information to provide tools as both an intake and access to justice solution that you potentially run into tremendous conflicts of interest problems there and I think obviously any lawyer considering pursuing this for their firm should think through the implications of their particular situation, but I think what Brad's doing is awesome in the context of his criminal law practice and I think there are versions of a similar model that could be used in something
like your debt collection defense practice or a small business
startup practice or an
estate planning practice, but that doesn't mean that it's a model that should be replicated by every lawyer in every practice.
In recent years, the staggering growth of technology companies, from small
startups to behemoths
like Amazon and Google, has added hundreds of thousands of US jobs, bolstering the performance of real
estate in a number of markets.
The map also includes other well - known commercial real
estate tech analytics
startups like Compstak and Honest Buildings.