real estate

UK Fines Countrywide In AML Crackdown
UK Fines Countrywide In AML Crackdown
March 05, 2019  |  Regulation

U.K. estate agent Countrywide has been fined £215,000 (more than $283,000 USD) for failing to comply with the country’s money laundering prevention rules. According to Financial...

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Stops, Starts And Never Was Edition: Intuit, Zillow And Amazon
Stops, Starts And Never Was Edition: Intuit, Zillow And Amazon
March 04, 2019  |  Data Dive

Followers of the regular news cycle will note that between the action on Capitol Hill and in North Korea, the flow of news was a...

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Zillow All-In With Mortgage Origination
Zillow All-In With Mortgage Origination
February 27, 2019  |  Loans

Zillow is focusing more on the mortgage market, making loans to buyers who use the company’s app. According to a report in GeekWire citing an interview...

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Banco BTG Pactual To Raise Millions Via Security Token Offering
Banco BTG Pactual To Raise Millions Via Security Token Offering
February 21, 2019  |  Investments

An investment bank located in Brazil is raising millions of dollars via a security token offering, as reported by CoinDesk. According to the report, Banco...

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Real Estate Money Laundering May Hit $1.6T A Year Globally
Real Estate Money Laundering May Hit $1.6T A Year Globally
February 18, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Governments around the world have a new front in their fight against money laundering: real estate. According to a report in Mansion Global, a growing...

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Home Selling Platform Opendoor Seeks To Raise $200M
Home Selling Platform Opendoor Seeks To Raise $200M
February 15, 2019  |  Investments

One month after home selling platform Knock raised $400 million in a Series B round, rival Opendoor is reportedly looking for $200 million in funding. The company,...

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As The Dust Settles From Amazon’s HQ Pullback, Ancient Truths Emerge
As The Dust Settles From Amazon’s HQ Pullback, Ancient Truths Emerge
February 15, 2019  |  Amazon

Hope springs eternal. Nothing happens in a vacuum. A day after Amazon said it would not build a headquarters in New York City after all,...

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Shopping Mall In Scotland Sells for Less Than Average London Apartment
Shopping Mall In Scotland Sells for Less Than Average London Apartment
February 06, 2019  |  Retail

A shopping mall in Scotland, located near Edinburgh, was sold at auction for just 310,000 pounds ($403,000) – a quarter less than the cost of the...

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Dutch Startup Raises $33M For AI In Real Estate
Dutch Startup Raises $33M For AI In Real Estate
January 24, 2019  |  Investments

When Dutch entrepreneur Teun van den Dries started GeoPhy, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven service that performs real estate valuations, there was nothing like it on the...

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