Opendoor raises $300M on a $3.8B valuation for its home marketplace

Last month, we reported that Opendoor — the startup that is taking on the real estate industry with its own platform for buying up homes and selling them on to interested buyers — filed to raise $200 million on a $3.7 billion valuation. Now, we can confirm that the round has closed, and it has […]

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Hey, millennials of London you can still eat sandwiches if you want

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Go after people’s sandwiches and you’d better prepare for war.

For a long time now millennials have come under fire for their spending habits. Culprits such as coffee and smashed avocado — previously held up as symptoms of millennial overspending — can now be joined by an even more innocuous evil… sandwiches.

‘Millennials must stop buying sandwiches to afford a house’ https://t.co/LQnZuw2be6

— Evening Standard (@standardnews) November 14, 2017

The Evening Standard reported calculations from estate agents Strutt & Parker, basically advising millennials to give up luxuries like nights out and sandwiches so they could save up for a deposit rather than being part of “generation rent”. Read more…

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House that can be built in a day is 30 times more affordable than a Beijing apartment

“People’s Architecture Office” (PAO) was commissioned by a young Chinese newlywed, Mrs. Fan, to renovate her family home in a historic Hutong neighborhood of Beijing. This was not a common renovation, but rather a complete re-invention of the traditi…

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