Bisnow Exclusive: Sir Richard Branson On Virgin Hotels, Women And The Future Of Travel
Publisher's Note: With the Bisnow editorial staff now covering nearly 30 cities coast-to-coast, we're excited to bring you our latest longform report. Based on exclusive interviews, our New York colleague Jesse Nash has prepared this Special Report on the one and only Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Hotels CEO Raul Leal. You can read past longform articles, including pieces on the founding family of General Growth Properties here; the remarkable Goldman family here; Alter Group chief Michael Alter here; and the tale of the Barclays Center shakeup here.
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Silicon Valley's Challenges, Costs And Trends
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Mountain View's Moffett Field Becomes Center Of Space-Tech
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Prices Rise As Inventory Falls In Housing Market
It is more difficult now to purchase that first starter home than it has been for many years. An analysis by Trulia shows how the inventory of starter homes has been dropping while prices have risen.
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Bisnow Sharestates Q&A: Institutional Crowdfunding Is 'Unavoidable'
Real estate crowdfunding is the hot new thing, letting individuals invest in property with as little as $1k (even if there is a little trouble in paradise recently). Real estate crowdfunder Sharestates rakes in 80% of its funds through institutional investors, as opposed to "the crowd"—making us wonder whether this breaks the mold (or the ethos?) of crowdfunding. We went straight to the horse's mouth—Bisnow sat down with Allen Shayanfekr, lawyer-turned-founder of Sharestates for his take on the big guys getting in on the crowdfunding game.
Bisnow: You guys hit $100M raised through your site, how long did that take, and how much of that was through institutional investors, instead of what we would think of as the traditional “crowd?”
Allen Shayanfekr: That's was mostly over the last 12 months, since our launch in February. It was about 80% institutional, 20% individual. When we originally set out to launch this platform we were of course targeting individual investors, and they still are very much our focus. But we realized that in order to make sure the company was healthy and going to be around for the long haul to eventually catch those individual investors, we needed to be able to drive volume.
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Bisnow Annual Multifamily And Mixed-Use Conference
With trends like micro-units, sky-high pricing and recession fears (that counts as a trend, right?) ramping up in the multifamily sector, Bisnow is staying ahead of the game. Our upcoming super-regional multifamily and mixed-use conference will feature legends like TruAmerica CEO Bob Hart and Greystar senior managing director Kevin Kaberna giving their take on the apartment of the future, the ever-expanding importance of mixed-use communities, how to weather a coming recession and much more.
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As experts in real estate events, Bisnow's top-tier events team can handle the logistics and pack your space with hundreds of real estate execs and industry leaders. All you have to do is sit back and bask in the publicity generated around your building.
Are you interested in joining the 73 site owners that gave their raw spaces for a Bisnow event in 2015? Email Bisnow Northern California sales director Mike Martinez, and let's make 2016 (almost) never boring. Just so you know, this is a sponsorship, but it's totally worth it. |
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