Yesterday Andreessen Horowitz announced an investment in the startup Point. They led an $8.4 million Series A round. Point is an alternative to traditional home equity loans and HELOCs. The way it works is that you actually sell a portion of your property. Here’s an example:… Read More
The Detroit Free Press recently published a summary of some of the new rental apartments coming online in and around downtown Detroit. Here’s the map that they published along with their piece: Based on this article, demand is outstripping new supply and rents are starting… Read More
A new startup out of San Francisco, called Rentberry, has just launched, allowing tenants to openly bid on rentals in the city. Think of it like a rental auction. Landlord lists property. And then tenants compete for it by submitting offers. Not surprisingly – especially… Read More
Here in Toronto there’s a push for more family-sized apartments. That’s what the planners want to hear. Because the city has been trying to encourage developers to build more of them for years, but the challenge has always been that they didn’t sell or that… Read More
A few days I retweeted the above home from Dwell Magazine. Then yesterday I was driving through midtown Toronto and I stumbled upon it. And that got me thinking more about this kind of project. The house is a triplex with, presumably, one unit in… Read More
BRANDON DONNELLY 