The prospect of democratizing access to real estate investments—once the exclusive domain of wealthy individuals, accredited investors, and family offices—has fueled a wave of fractional investment platforms. But challenges abound. Reaching everyday investors requires expensive marketing, and building trust remains a major challenge to converting interest into actual

In the real estate portal arms race, everyone’s chasing the same prize: owning the entire consumer journey. From a consumer’s first dream of home ownership to eventually financing, closing, and even servicing it, portals want to own the entire transaction. Zillow’s bundled ecosystem of listings aims to

Airbnb recently updated its Off-Platform and Fee Transparency Policy. The two big buckets are off-platform payments (such as external damage deposits) and the more strategically interesting one—off-platform bookings. With a take rate between 5-15%, Airbnb knows that hosts moving guests off platform risks disintermediation. I’

No-code product building solutions aren’t “new,” per say. Replit was founded back in 2016—nine years ago. I intuitively knew building products without actual coding is possible. But I hadn’t done the work to know for certain. I’ve had off-and-on conversations about this topic