Made Renovation Raises $9M Seed For Tech-Enabled Bathroom Remodels
In hot real estate markets such as the Bay Area, finding a contractor who will do a small remodeling job at an affordable price can be a challenge. Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily A new startup is emerging from stealth today with the goal of helping solve that problem. Made Renovation, which manages bathroom remodeling […]
A Neglected Bay Area Home Finally Gets Its Moment in the Sun
Bay Area architect Henry Higby Gutterson’s houses have always been unorthodox—but not in the way you might think. While the early-20th-century architect’s more famous contemporaries—Julia Morgan, Bernard Maybeck, John Hudson Thomas—were creating homes that had rustic, woody features with sleek lines and a machine aesthetic, Gutterson was looking to English Tudors, Irish cottages, French Beaux […]
Is the Bay Area on the verge of a housing construction slowdown?
The Bay Area, already one of the most difficult and expensive places in the nation to build new homes, is being buffeted by a turbulent economy that’s creating even more challenges for a region reeling from a housing affordability crisis. The headwinds are plenty: Higher interest rates for construction loans. Rising labor and material costs. […]
Apple, Partners Launch $50M Bay Area Housing Fund
“We cannot effectively address the homelessness and affordability crises in the Bay Area if we continue building and funding affordable housing in the same way,” said Rebecca Foster, CEO of the San Francisco Housing Accelerator Fund, which will manage the new Bay Area project. “We must think outside the box to significantly reduce costs and […]
