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Redfin opens new engineering hub in Texas

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Citing the affordability of the Dallas area, and Frisco in particular, the techie brokerage is expanding with its first engineering office outside of the West Coast. Continue reading →

Co-living company Bungalow launches in San Francisco

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By the end of this year, Bungalow hopes to have more than 120 rooms in 40 San Francisco properties. Overall, Bungalow operates more than 500 properties with 2,000 total rooms across the U.S. Continue reading →

Trulia founder Pete Flint’s venture firm NFX raises $275M

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NFX splits its investments equally between business-to-business companies and business-to-consumer companies, but said that out of 3,000 firms seeking money this year it will ultimately only fund 0.5 percent. Continue reading →

Where the billionaires are concentrated

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While the census doesn’t name individual billionaires or their ventures, these trends toward tech-centric business creation certainly include the founders of high profile Bay Area companies such as Facebook and Google. It’s also unsurprising, then, tha… Continue reading →

Take a Seat at Ruth’s Table in San Francisco

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PART OF THE VITALITY ARTS SPECIAL REPORT It’s long and wide, well-worn and sturdy: a wooden table that, for many years, served as a foundation, while conversations about community, the arts and collaboration flowed around it. At that time, the table he… Continue reading →

A real estate developer invites a homeless couple to live in his $4M mansion. Neighbors aren’t happy

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Greg Dunston and Marie Mckinzie lived on Oakland streets for 10 years before a real estate developer offered to help. Continue reading →

What agents should know about tech’s next IPO boom

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The San Francisco Bay Area could explode with new millionaires this year, as a number of the top Bay Area-based tech companies mull initial public offerings. But will this influx of new cash actually have an appreciable impact on the nation’s most expe… Continue reading →

The Compass critic that flipped: Inside Alain Pinel’s major reversal

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APR president Mike Hulme vowed to agents in a company-wide memo in August of 2018 never to “impede your business by forcing you to change brokerages,” a clear swipe at Compass. Continue reading →