Compared to other major New York City industries, real estate is notoriously slow to innovate. A conservative business dominated for decades by the same handful of families, real estate hasn’t developed the equivalent of high-frequency trading, which rocked the securities industry, or BuzzFeed, the news-and-entertainment website that’s shaking up media advertising.
There are, however, some new kids on the block who are successfully challenging the way the real estate business is done. Read the full story from the October 2013 issue after the jump.