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  • CoStar Market Insight: Investors Gravitating to Value Add

    CoStar – Detroit

    CoStar Market Insight: Investors Gravitating to Value Add Sales of 150 W. Jefferson Ave. and Troy Tower Highlight the Trend By Amena Ali October 30, 2017 Email Print Close to 600 office sales finalized in the Detroit Metro over the last four quarters, and the most obvious trend among these sales was the propensity of developers to gravitate toward properties rated 3 Star or less. Such transactions accounted for over 95% of investment activity, and the inclination towards value-add transactions a…

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  • How retailers are restyling concept stores

    JLL Real Views

    Stores are no longer simply places where shoppers go to buy the latest goods – nowadays they're very much about getting a piece of the brand experience. In recent years an increasing number of brands are taking the experience to the next level by creating concept stores that offer a carefully curated taste of the retailer's world to help build lasting relationships with their customers. Many of today's brand showrooms still carry merchandise for customers to purchase on-the-spot b…

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  • The Symbiotic Relationship Between WeWork, Brokers, and Enterprise By: Julia Davis.

    Duke Long Blog

    Due to changing global consumption patterns, the way people work and live is undergoing a fundamental shift — specifically the structures of community, urbanization, and sharing. In response, WeWork has found itself at the forefront of this evolution, offering companies of all sizes the opportunity to redefine employee experience and productivity through vibrant design, engaging community, technology and enhanced benefits for all. Large organizations, or Enterprise members, have caught onto the …

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  • National Cheat Sheet: Newmark seeks $100M IPO, WeWork bags Lord & Taylor iconic Fifth Avenue flagship for $850M … & more

    The Real Deal – Miami

    Newmark Group files for $100M initial public offering From TRD New York: Newmark Group filed for a $100 million initial public offering Monday in a bid to spin off from its parent company, Howard Lutnick’s BGC Partners. The filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said the entity will include the commercial brokerage Newmark Knight Frank and the mortgage firm Berkeley Point and it will be listed on the Nasdaq under the symbol NMRK. Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Cit…

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  • Will Overbuilding Force Data Center Operators Out Of The Clouds?

    Bisnow – New York Commercial Real Estate News

    Data center investment has reached new highs as investors on the hunt for solid returns look beyond core real estate assets like office and multifamily for better yields. “Huge leases are being signed all across the country,” Newmark Knight Frank Executive Vice President & Global Lead of Data Center Valuation & Advisory Miles Loo said. "This has prompted a building boom in many markets as developers are buying land to keep pace with demand. As a result, all of this attention is attr…

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  • How To Make Your IDX Outshine The Competition WITHOUT Any Code Or Tech Skills (Easy As One Click)

    Easy Agent Pro Blog

      No one can deny the need for IDX on a real estate website. After all, the point of every site is to generate more homebuyer and seller leads. And what are your leads after? Listings. The functionality and design of your website IDX can make all the difference for your leads. Because any successful lead generation campaign starts with having the content your target audience is after. But this isn’t always easy, or pretty, when it comes to IDX feeds. That is going to change though…. Right Now. R…

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  • The battle for Amazon’s $5 billion headquarters has intensified— but these states don’t want to be involved

    Business Insider – Tech

    Only seven states did not submit bids for Amazon's second headquarters. Some local governments say that the company's campus would be too large, even for their biggest metro areas. Seattle, Washington, the location of Amazon's first headquarters, has experienced a population boom, rising housing prices, long periods of construction, and heavy traffic, due largely to an influx of tech workers.   When Amazon announced in September that it will create a $5 billion headquarters and 50…

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  • Rezi, and iRenters

    Geek Estate Blog

    I saw Rezi pitch at the NYC Real Estate Tech meetup a couple weeks ago. If you look at their home page, you'll see their value proposition is as follows: Rezi is the rental equivalent of Opendoor. Cash is delivered almost instantly. Landlords are paying for peace of mind, security, and speed. It begs the question — are “iRenters” the future of the rental industry?

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  • How To Make Your IDX Outshine The Competition WITHOUT Any Code Or Tech Skills 05:11

    Easy Agent Pro Blog

    It's finally here! After a long-awaited launch, we have started rolling out a way for you to customize the IDX on your website. Its clean, sophisticated and…dare I say it…SEXY! Now LeadSites users can have the best-looking search in the city. These new real estate IDX templates are also going to give you much more lead capture capability than you previously had before. So I would highly encourage you to go launch your new templates and be on the lookout for the upcoming templates we pla…

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  • Fit or miss? Retailers offer new tools to help shoppers

    Desert News

    Fit or miss? Retailers offer new tools to help shoppers By Anne D'innocenzio, Associated Press Published: Oct. 27, 2017 4:40 p.m. + Leave a comment 1 of 3 View 3 Items AP This image provided by Levi Strauss & Co. demonstrates the company's Virtual Stylist which texts back and forth with online customers to offer recommendations, based on their preferences. Marc Rosen, Levi’s president of global e-commerce, says early tests show the chatbot is driving more browsers to become buy…

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