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  • Build vs. Buy: Why JLL Transformed its Technology Strategy & Embraced a Buy-Focused Mindset

    Hightower Blog

    To build or to buy? It’s a question that often arises when companies are assessing their software needs. One company that has experience in both approaches is global commercial real estate brokerage firm, JLL. Over the past couple of years the firm, which manages dozens of company-wide applications, has significantly shifted its technology strategy, going from a primarily build to a buy-focused mentality. We sat down with Mike Hart, JLL’s Senior Vice President, National Director- Data Management…

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  • Real estate chiefs favor predictive analytics technology over AI and virtual reality

    Realty Biz News

    Real estate industry leaders anticipate big opportunities coming from newer technology like Predictive Analytics, Big Data, and Marketing Automation over the next five years, but show lukewarm confidence in Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Realty, and Virtual Realty 3D Tours. These findings emerged from a new Imprev Thought Leadership survey asking participants to predict the future of real estate marketing and anticipate the effect on their businesses. The study found that two-out-of-three to…

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  • Talent Hunt, Tech Challenges Top Leaders’ Agenda

    Commercial Property Executive – All Feeds

    At IREM's Global Summit, the heads of four national organizations shared insights about expanding the industry's talent pool, managing Millennial workers and keeping up with technology. The association leaders who made a joint appearance at the Institute of Real Estate Management Global Summit last week offered diverse insights, but but they agreed on at least one thing: For the real estate industry's service providers, business as usual is not an option. During a nearly hour-long…

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  • A STARTUP BORN FROM WITHIN THE INDUSTRY…

    Michael Beckerman

    One of the most impressive startups I have had the pleasure of meeting is NavigatorCRE. For several reasons actually. The first being the Founders… seasoned real estate and tech entrepreneurs who took their own pain points in the industry and are solving it with their site. To me, that`s the best way to ensure success in the CRE tech space… scratch your own itch. Secondly, NavigatorCRE is a completely different spin on the data play in CRE tech… they don`t create the data, they take your data…

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  • Bitcoin is finally buying into US real estate

    Realty Check with Diana Olick (CNBC)

    Bitcoin is already in retail and restaurants — so it was only a matter of time before the cryptocurrency took on real estate. That time is now. Bitcoin is slowly making its way into closings on everything from Lake Tahoe land in California to Manhattan condos to single-family homes in the heart of Texas. "Our buyer has evolved, they've moved from mom and pops to young people who want to pay with various forms of payment," said Ben Shaoul, president of Magnum Real Estate Group. &qu…

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  • Santa Ana developer unveils bid for Amazon’s second headquarters

    Orange County Register Business

    If developer Michael Harrah gets his way, Santa Ana will become home to Amazon’s enormous new second headquarters, repurposing three proposed development sites in the city into a 10 million-square-foot, high-tech hub. The Santa Ana real estate tycoon recently unveiled plans to join Irvine and dozens of other suitors nationwide in wooing the online retail giant and the 50,000 well-paying jobs such a project will bring. Harrah’s plan, dubbed “Orange County Silicon City,” includes a beefed-up propo…

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  • Target + Techstars startups are moving to Minneapolis

    Retail Dive

    Author By Daphne Howland, Corinne Ruff • Published Oct. 16, 2017 Share it post share tweet Dive Brief: As the 13-week Target + Techstars retail accelerator comes to an end, half of the 10 participating startups are leaving with formal agreements with Target for pilot projects, and others are still in talks, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Two overseas startups that participated in the program announced at its Demo Day last week that they are moving their headquarters to the Twin Cities, wh…

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  • Amazon’s portfolio of tech hubs hints at top contenders for HQ2

    Denver Business Journal – Commercial Real Estate News

    Amazon opened its first tech office in Colorado last year, but it has bigger tech hubs in a handful of other cities.

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  • Exclusive Q&A With #RETAS Sponsor David Beitz, Partner at Planned Grocery

    CRETECH

    EXCLUSIVE Q&A WITH #RETAS SPONSOR DAVID BEITZ, PARTNER AT PLANNED GROCERYCan you describe your site?The Planned Grocery® site is a data mapping platform which tracks grocery store real estate developments through the development cycle all across the United States. What problems are you solving for real estate professionals?This first of its kind subscription platform is helping our clients to better understand where the grocery competition is planned and anticipate when they will open. New gr…

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  • Airbnb’s home-hotel hybrid will open in Florida next year

    Hospitality.net

    techcrunch.com While Airbnb continues to grow its number of hosts and guests on the platform, sending the hotel industry into a frenzy, landlords and building owners don’t share the same enthusiasm for the home-sharing platform as Airbnb users. But the company has a new plan that gets each party on board with home-sharing. The company is collaborating with development firm Newgard Development Group to build a 324-unit building in Kissimmee, FL that will be branded as an Airbnb building. Tenants …

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