Angel Ventures led a US$1.3m seed investment in Homie, a Mexican residential rental platform, with participation from Narval Capital and Plug and Play San Francisco. 

Orbis Ventures led a US$440k investment in Ultracasas, a Bolivian real estate platform, with participation from Seedstars and Taris.

DadaRoom, a Mexican platform for shared rentals, was acquired by Roomi, an American roommate-finding app, for an undisclosed amount. DadaRoom is backed by Wayra and Start-Up Chile.

Grupo Zap, which merged with VivaReal last year, is opening a co-working space for startups in São Paulo along with other real estate players.

OLX, a global classifieds marketplace backed by Naspers, and Properati, a real-estate marketplace with operations across Latin America, will merge its operations in Argentina and 13 other countries in the region. Properati will continue to operate independently in Brazil, Chile and Mexico. Previous venture capital investors in Properati include NXTP Labs and NEVEQ.

U.S. private investment firm Cerberus Capital Management is seeking to enter the Brazilian real estate market by acquiring distressed real estate backed loans, foreclosed properties, and excess inventory built by local developers.

Aurus led a US$1.4m investment in Chilean Startup Capitalizarme, an online platform that helps users identify investment opportunities in real estate.

FIR Capital and Bzplan made a R$2m investment in Rede Vistorias, a Brazilian real estate survey platform.

Undisclosed angels made an undisclosed investment in Benvenuto, a Brazilian residential real estate platform.

Real estate portal PropertySimple, which started out as PropiedadFacil in Chile, raised US$3m from investors including Magma Partners. (Nathan Lustig) I’m excited to finally be able to announce that our…