Short-term rental startup Sonder has inked another hotel lease, this one at its first Brooklyn location. The company signed a long-term lease for the entire 76-key Gowanus Inn & Yard at 645-651 Union Street,...
Blink and you’ll miss a new SPAC. With billions of dollars flowing into blank-check firms, a growing number of real estate players are targeting proptech. As an alternative to the traditional IPO, special-purpose acquisition...
As pandemic-challenged apartment landlords scrambled to cut costs, SmartRent CEO Lucas Haldeman’s phone lit up. The owners were eager...
Glenn Sanford built a multibillion-dollar residential brokerage in his own, untethered image. Sanford, a former top producer at Keller Williams, founded eXp Realty in 2009 with the ambition to build the first fully virtual...
Venture capital firm Fifth Wall is launching another blank-check company — the third the company has founded since the...
Add hospitality startup Sonder to the list of companies getting in the SPAC game. The San Francisco-based firm, which leases apartments and turns them into furnished, short-term rentals, is in talks to go public...
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again: Two years after its failed IPO, WeWork has struck a deal to go public with a special-purpose acquisition company. The merger with BowX Acquisition Corp....
Until recently, iBuying was largely a two-horse race. Now, Offerpad’s decision to go public in a $3 billion SPAC deal has put rivals Opendoor and Zillow on notice. The deal, with a blank-check firm...
Billionaire real estate investor and yacht enthusiast Andrew Farkas is sailing into the SPAC race. Farkas, the founder of...
Yet another major real estate firm is jumping on the blank-check bandwagon. Cushman & Wakefield has formed a special-purpose acquisition company, C&W Acquisition Corp., that aims to raise $250 million from investors to take...
