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Real Estate Startup Investors Are Still Bullish About These 4 Themes

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real estate-related startups. Notably, these are all themes that play into the current real estate market climate, characterized by higher lending costs, lower affordability and fewer homeowners opting to sell and move. Earlier this week, we wrote about the sharp decline in venture funding to U.S.

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São Paulo’s QuintoAndar real estate platform raises $120M, now valued at $5.1B

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evolve into a one-stop real estate shop that also offers mortgage, title insurance and escrow services. To that end, e arlier this month, the startup acquired Atta Franchising, a 7-year-old São Paulo-based independent real estate mortgage broker. Last year, it also expanded into connecting home buyers to sellers.

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Sumutasu secures $10M to digitize Japan’s real estate market

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Sumutasu , a Tokyo-based proptech startup that offers a direct online real estate purchase service, has secured $8.2 Takahiro Sumi (CEO) and Tomoya Ito (COO) co-founded Sumutasu four years ago to streamline the buying and selling of residential real estate. million in equity and $1.6 million in debt.

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Concreit closes on $6M to allow more people to invest in the global private real estate market

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Concreit , a company that wants to open real estate investing to a broader group of people, announced today that it has closed $6 million in a seed funding round led by Matrix Partners. . Concreit gives everyone access to a real estate portfolio and the ability to have access to withdrawals when they need them.”.

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South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies

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South African startup Flow wants to change how real estate agencies, developers and agents interact with their end customers. With its APIs, Flow connects to the websites of estate agencies and property developers and automates advertising for them on social media channels like Instagram and Facebook.

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Flat.mx raises $20M from VCs, proptech unicorn founders to fix Mexico’s ‘broken’ real estate market

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Flat.mx, which wants to build a real estate “super app” for Latin America, has closed on a $20 million Series A round of funding. That September, the proptech startup had raised one of Mexico’s largest pre-seed rounds to take the Opendoor real estate marketplace model across the Rio Grande. Previously, Flat.mx

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Tech industry reacts to Adam Neumann’s a16z-backed return to real estate

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The stealthy startup is trying to reinvent real estate (again), but instead of commercial properties, which WeWork focused on, Neumann is looking into revolutionizing rental properties. As far as visions go, renovating the rental real estate market isn’t a unique idea. It’s a playbook that they never change.