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Long term room-rental platform Badi launches its service in NYC

As things stand in many countries, renting houses and whole apartments is relatively straightforward, if you can afford it. But trying to find rooms in those apartments and houses to rent has been cha

Bringing luxury perks to co-living life, Ollie raises cash to expand

As rents continue to soar in America's most desirable cities, companies like New York-based Ollie are angling to transform the real estate market with an updated version of an old model of co-living

Co-living gets more cash as shared housing developer HubHaus raises $1.4 million

It's an old story for anyone moving out to a new place, but for Merchant, and others like her, the idea that there can be a better way to move to a place, and live in a city, has led to the creation o

The very simple argument for the rise of co-living: people need people

People, people who need people, are the luckiest people in the world. So go the lyrics of the famous Barbra Streisand song. It was also a theme at a future of cities panel at Disrupt today, where the

Technology is finally changing the apartment rental experience

The real estate rental market is a highly localized, relationship-based industry driven largely by individuals living and working in their own cities, causing many to acknowledge the longstanding diff

Common, The Co-Living Startup From A General Assembly Founder, Opens Its First Building in Brooklyn

Common, a co-living startup from General Assembly co-founder Brad Hargreaves, is unveiling its first building today in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights. With more than four floors and 7,300 square feet

With $7.35M Raise For Common, General Assembly Co-Founder Gets Into The “Co-Living” Movement

Brad Hargreaves, who co-founded General Assembly to re-think vocational education for a fast-changing and tech-laden job market, is switching from the world of work into housing. He’s started a

First Open-Source Car Unveiled

The world’s first open-source car was unveiled this week at the AutoRAI show in Amsterdam. The c,mm,n (or “common”) was developed by three Dutch technical universities: Delft, Eindho