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  • Podcast #192 Bobby Goodman Co-Founder Truss.com

    DUKE LONG

    Is Truss.com the true definition of an online commercial real estate brokerage? How much has the use of technology-enabled your company to differentiate? There are so many so-called  AI-enabled tools and you say Truss is one of those. What makes Truss any different from other platforms? How does Truss shrink the time-consuming transaction? You are a broker and only focus on the smaller deals why? You started with office space, then added retail space and industrial. What were thos…

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  • WeWork takes two floors of NoMad building

    CRAIN’S

    Co-working firm inks lease for 12,000 square feet. WeWork has signed a 10-year lease for two floors of a NoMad office building at 15 W. 27th St. The co-working firm will take the entire ninth and 10th floors, which total 11,818 square feet. It plans to move in this fall. Asking rents for the space were in the high $60s per square foot, according to the landlord, the Kaufman Organization. WeWork, however, was given a tenant allowance, which is essentially a break on rent for a specified ti…

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  • Airbnb’s Newest Weapon Against Regulation: The Real Estate Industry

    WIRED

    Everywhere you look, regulators are cracking down on Airbnb. In Paris, the company’s largest market, hosts must now register with the city government and can only list their homes for 120 nights each year. In Amsterdam, new rules, which go into effect in 2019, will restrict hosts to listing for just 30 nights annually. And after the Japanese government forced the home-sharing site to cancel reservations of unregistered hosts by June 15, Airbnb deactivated 80 percent of its Japanese listings over…

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  • Tech Adoption Requires Creating Value

    GLOBEST

    TORONTO—With the scope of technology growing increasingly more complex, who better than a former broker to get into the heads of salespeople and clients and lead the tech charge by scouring the ever-changing landscape? The word “scour” is appropriate when discussing Jake Edens, SVP of the U.S. technology and innovation initiative for Colliers International. Prior to Colliers, Edens served as founder and CEO of REscour, a CRE data platform and decision engine that is used by some of the leading C…

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  • 5 Ways that Commercial Real Estate Technology is Changing Office Design and Layout

    CRETech

    Work styles and generational changes have been impacting office design and spatial layout trends in the commercial real estate space for years now. As mobile technology and demographic shifts have impacted U.S. culture overall, the office has had to continue to keep pace. There are several ways that how an office is laid out is being impacted by technology. Here are 5: #1: Open Office Space for Better Collaboration For the first time ever, most office workers are working alongside people f…

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  • Lyft Follows Uber by Acquiring Bike-Sharing Startup Motivate

    WSJ

    Ride-hailing firm Lyft Inc. said it agreed to purchase an urban bike-rental company recognizable by its curbside docking stations and sponsors like Ford Motor Co. and Citigroup Inc. The deal for Motivate International Inc. gives Lyft access to thousands of bicycles for short-term rental and a potential leg-up on bigger rival Uber Technologies Inc., which recently bought smaller dockless bike-rental company Jump….

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  • Blurring Lines, Hotels Get Into the Home-Sharing Business

    NEW YORK TIMES

    Hotels largely stood by as home sharing companies like Airbnb began offering travelers a chance to bypass a standardized hotel room and, instead, live like a local. But hotels are no longer standing by. In fact, they’re beginning to get into the private home-rental market themselves, mostly at the high end — but with a difference. They say they can consistently provide service that’s up to hotel standards. Most home sharing guests leave positive reviews of their experiences, but when they do c…

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  • Anthony Levandowski is back with a new self-driving startup, called Kache.ai

    TECHCRUNCH

    This is a comeback story. Or at least the first chapter to one. Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer and serial entrepreneur who was at the center of a trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, is back. And he is connected to an autonomous trucking company that is still in stealth mode, TechCrunch has learned. The company, called Kache.ai (pronounced like cache), has kept a low profile since paperwork registering it as a corporation was first filed with the California Secre…

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  • Furniture Startups Skip The Showroom And Go Straight To Your Door

    CRUNCHBASE

    Startups making delivery and transport easier than ever are a hit with venture capitalists, so it’s not a surprise that young tech companies delivering home staples—living room sets, dining room tables, couches, and more—are raising big dollars. From 2010 through 2017, venture investors have outfitted U.S.-based furniture startups with a little over $1.1 billion in funding across 96 known rounds. But that funding has not been spread equally over time, as the following chart shows:…

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  • How to Stay Competitive by Changing How Your Teams Think

    ENERTIV

    Real estate companies are using a variety of strategies to develop in-house innovation engines to keep pace with the rapid changes coming to the industry. With a framework for identifying and integrating new technologies through an innovation engine in place, the work of piloting the most promising solutions can begin. There are a variety of benefits that come from infusing technology into real estate: faster and more precise back office processes, a better experience for current and futur…

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