# Software eats real estate

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2020-01-04

a16z, brazil, housing-market, investment, loft, property, real-estate, residential-real-estate, sao-paulo, silicon-valley, tech, venture-capital

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At the beginning of this year, a16z [announced](https://a16z.com/2020/01/03/loft/) that they co-led a $175 million investment in the real estate company [Loft](https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/03/how-two-year-old-loft-nabbed-175m-led-by-andreessen-horowitz/). Based in São Paulo, Loft is doing in Brazil what Opendoor is doing in the US. They are bringing more liquidity to the residential real estate marketplace, and it turns out that the need for this is even greater in Brazil. That has apparently made Loft one of the fastest growing real estate companies in the world today. [Here](https://a16z.com/2020/01/03/loft/) are some interesting facts about residential real estate in São Paulo. And [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRPH3K1GXj0) is a talk by Alex Rampell (general partner at a16z) on how software is going to eat the real estate world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRPH3K1GXj0

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/software-eats-real-estate)*