Weekly Radar #301: The State of the the Insurance Crisis, Red Rentals, Renting in Chunks
In this week's Weekly Radar, we cover:
- With climate change driving up insurance costs homeowners and renters, especially those who are "house poor," are at risk.
- Keyper, a UAE rent payment startup, joins a competitive market with U.S. players like Bilt Rewards and Piñata after raising $4 million to allow monthly installments for annual leases.
- Redfin now offers free rental listings for small landlords, competing with Realtor.com and targeting the hard-to-reach landlord segment, potentially leading to acquisitions of similar platforms like TurboTenant and TenantCloud.
- The GEM Proptech Index had a combined market cap of $234.223B, a 2.03% decrease from the previous week.
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Transmission Recap:
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