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Loan data firm Actovia buys shuttered competitor CrediFi

Posted: 19 Jan 2020 01:13 PM PST

Mortgage data firm Actovia has struck a deal to buy its former competitor CrediFi, the Tel Aviv-based startup that abruptly shut down last month. New Jersey-based Actovia closed on its purchase Friday, company founder and CEO Jonathan Ingber told The Real Deal. Ingber founded Actovia in 2011 as a platform to provide access to commercial mortgage information on properties in New York City, and is expanding in the tri-state area. “What we do is more

Northern Virginia’s housing market is still feeling the “Amazon effect”

Posted: 19 Jan 2020 11:00 AM PST

The housing market in northern Virginia took off as soon as Amazon announced it would be bringing half of its second headquarters to Crystal City, and that boom shows no signs of letting up more than a year down the line. Data released by the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors shows that the average home sale price in Alexandria City and Arlington and Fairfax counties rose by 4 percent, from $590,582 in 2018 to $614,236

Great deal or ecological disaster? A private “border wall” rises in Texas

Posted: 19 Jan 2020 09:00 AM PST

A contractor who owns hundreds of miles of property along the U.S-Mexico border says he’s got a deal for President Donald Trump. Tommy Fisher says he’ll complete three miles of a border fence along the Rio Grande in just two weeks and for millions of dollars less per mile than what the federal government is spending to build Trump’s wall, according to the Los Angeles Times. Fisher has already built 1,500 feet of the steel

This “living concrete” could revolutionize real estate on earth, and in space

Posted: 19 Jan 2020 06:00 AM PST

Could this be the building block of real estate life on Mars? Researchers at the University of Colorado have turned light-eating bacteria into the world’s tiniest construction workers, utilizing their power to create “living concrete.” Their breakthrough process uses the bacteria in the same way binders are used in traditional concrete-making. The living concrete can be made from less materials and without the carbon dioxide emissions caused by traditional concrete methods, according to the New