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Proptech company OJO Labs and climate property risk platform ClimateCheck have launched an exclusive partnership that will place ClimateCheck’s risk assessment reports on listings in OJO Labs’ real estate search portal, OJO Labs announced on Wednesday. ClimateCheck’s risk assessment scores for climate change data, including temperature risk, flood risk, storm risk and drought risk, will now be fully integrated into listings that are accessible to users on OJO Labs’ search portal, Movoto. As of Wednesday, the data will be available in all 50 states nationwide. (Disclosure: Cal Inman, t...

“[A] credit score is a vital component to homeownership, which means that those with lower scores begin experiencing the consequences of their earlier financial choices later in their lives,” the report read. “As a result, the homebuying process can be delayed for months, or even years, as a prospective homebuyer tries to improve their score to gain access to more favorable interest rates. In the interim, the price of property may rise, making affordability a continued challenge.” From November 2020 to January 2021, OJO Labs surveyed more than 450 homebuyers and new homeowners about t...

Ben Doherty | Photo credit: CrunchBase The company was founded in 2018 by Ben Doherty and Zachary Maurais, high school best friends and the entrepreneurs behind the delivery app Favor. The journey from food delivery to rentals was actually a natural one, Doherty told Inman. “We had thought about all of our past experiences leasing properties and thought, man that’s a space that reminds me a lot of food delivery,” Doherty said. Popular delivery apps like GrubHub were extremely successful at getting menus online, but where Doherty believed they failed was with the actual process of delive...

 Getty Images Several months have passed since Black Lives Matter protests took cities by storm and businesses pledged to do the hard work of creating more diverse and equitable workplaces. Many large companies took highly visible action: Apple started a partnership with historically Black colleges, while Netflix released an extensive inclusion report on its efforts to fight racism in the entertainment industry. For small businesses though, developing appropriate policies and initiatives can be more difficult. "What we saw is that there were no solutions or places to get information t...