How Compass Became the Bane of Real Estate
The high-tech real estate startup boasts SoftBank backing, a $1.6 billion war chest, and plenty of skeptics. Now it’s cashing in on the pandemic real estate boom.
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The high-tech real estate startup boasts SoftBank backing, a $1.6 billion war chest, and plenty of skeptics. Now it’s cashing in on the pandemic real estate boom.
Patrick Sisson Marker Dec 2020 20min Permalink
In 2005, Vanessa Mitchell moved into her dream home, a former medieval jail where England’s witches waited to hang and burn. When paranormal phenomena forced her to flee, she became convinced it was possessed by evil spirits.
Jeff Maysh Medium Oct 2020 25min Permalink
What’s the future of NYC real estate?
Andrew Rice Curbed Oct 2020 30min Permalink
John Ackerman has spent millions procuring a majority of the known caves in Minnesota, which add up to dozens of miles of underground passageways and likely make him the largest cave owner in the U.S. He collects and charts them in the name of preservation, but his controversial methods have created many opponents.
MATTHEW SHERRILL Outside Jun 2020 20min Permalink
In the 1960s, a white subdivision prepares for the arrival of a black family.
Brit Bennett The Cut Jun 2020 10min Permalink
How Washington society got scammed by one of its own.
Marisa M. Kashino Washingtonian Jan 2020 20min Permalink
Uncovering evidence of unequal treatment by real estate agents.
Ann Choi, Bill Dedman, Keith Herbert, Olivia Winslow Newsday Nov 2019 40min Permalink
A year living in a shack in Oakland.
Wes Enzinna Harpers Nov 2019 25min Permalink
A mid-boom critique of New York City’s high-priced, mostly glass condo buildings.
A. A. Gill Vanity Fair Oct 2006 10min Permalink
How the most expensive and unstoppable invasive plant crisis inspires madness and panic.
Henry Grabar Slate May 2019 20min Permalink
How Miami’s real estate industry turns a blind eye to climate change.
Sarah Miller Popula Apr 2019 20min Permalink
They’re known as the Jills. They’re two of America’s top realtors, selling the glitziest mansions in Miami. Then a place went missing—and everyday greed blossomed into full-blown extortion.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Dec 2018 20min Permalink
Cape Coral, Florida, was built on lies. One big storm could wipe it off the map. It’s also the fastest-growing city in the United States.
Michael Grunwald Politico Magazine Oct 2017 25min Permalink
They thought that they’d found the perfect New York apartment. They weren’t alone.
Tad Friend New Yorker May 2013 30min Permalink
“It was a crumbling Parkdale rooming house, populated by drug users and squatters and available on the cheap. We were cash-strapped, desperate to move and hemmed in by a hot market.”
Catherine Jheon Toronto Life May 2016 15min Permalink
The landlord’s guide to gentrifying New York.
Simon van Zuylen-Wood Bloomberg Business Oct 2016 15min Permalink
Alben Sagan got his name from the U.S. Marshals. Then he got a fortune from a woman he’d only known for a few years.
James Fanelli DNAinfo Sep 2016 15min Permalink
A look inside Donald Trump’s portfolio of exclusive real estate properties.
Caity Weaver GQ Jul 2016 25min Permalink
Why has a prestigious address been used so many times as a center for elaborate international fraud?
Oliver Bullough The Guardian Apr 2016 20min Permalink
Two floors of a building in prime Brooklyn for $1000 a month seemed too good to be true. It was.
Steven W. Thrasher The Guardian Apr 2016 15min Permalink
Shakiya Robertson thought she had found a way get her family a home. She moved in, fixed the place up, made all the payments. Then she, like thousands of others in Detroit, was told that the house she thought she had purchased wasn’t actually hers.
Allie Gross Metro Times Nov 2015 25min Permalink
An elderly woman renovates her basement for renters and discovers uncomfortable truths about herself.
Alice Kaltman Joyland Magazine Sep 2015 20min Permalink
Only after buying a new home did the Milliken family learn something terrible had happened in it.
Will Hunt, Matt Wolfe The Atavist Aug 2015 40min Permalink
How New York real estate became the new Swiss bank account.
Andrew Rice New York Jun 2014 25min Permalink
On the urge to live in a house you can't afford, the "acceptable lust" of American life.
Michael Lewis Portfolio Sep 2008 20min Permalink