The Real Deal New York

Despite the downturn in the housing market, the real estate blog Curbed.com recently obtained $1.5 million in financing to expand its staff and add locations. Gawker Media and the CEO of software company NetSuite were among the investors. Curbed runs sites in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The network’s publisher, Lockhart Steele, says the traffic to the site is growing by 10 percent per month.