Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
GeekWire
Rascoff, who left the CEO post at the Seattle real estate juggernaut in February 2019, is part of a group of SPAC investors that’s buying Offerpad, a 6-year-old real estate company that competes directly with Zillow Group in a quest to transform how people buy and sell homes.
CREtech+
Carol Galante, Faculty Director at the Terner Center at UC Berkeley, shines light on the impacts of the pandemic-induced recession, how it is impacting different races and socioeconomic groups disproportionately, and how we can use technology to create long-lasting solutions.
GlobeSt
A year after global lockdowns drove companies to adopt widespread WFH policies almost half of employed Americans are still working at home, the firm’s most recent survey shows. And while most of those surveyed reported that their work-life balance was equal to or better than it was before, Gen Z respondents were generally less-satisfied compared to older generations. …
Wall Street Journal
The badly battered lodging business is stirring to life, roused by hotel owners and investors betting that bookings will pick up when Covid-19 vaccines become widespread and more Americans itch to travel again.
PR Newswire
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Matterport, the spatial data company leading the digital transformation of the built world, today announced its continued partnership with roOomy to provide virtual staging capabilities to residential and multifamily real estate customers. Potential buyers and renters can view staged properties and more deeply understand and visualize the potential for spaces 100% virtually, anytime from any device. Now, they can decide whether listings are right…
Business Wire
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the first recipients of investments from The Climate Pledge Fund: CarbonCure Technologies, Pachama, Redwood Materials, Rivian, and Turntide Technologies. The Climate Pledge Fund is a dedicated $2 billion venture investment program backing sustainable technologies and services that will help Amazon and other companies to meet The Climate Pledge—a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040….
Bisnow
The coronavirus pandemic’s onset may have accelerated the rise of real property technology or proptech over the past year. Yet, it is just the latest chapter in commercial real estate’s high-tech transformation over the past decade leading to greater property insights when used cautiously.
Bisnow
Work is no longer where you are, but what you do, for yet another of the world’s biggest office occupiers. Japan’s Nippon Telegraph and Telephone has become the latest global occupier to confirm a move to hybrid working. The telecoms operator has agreed with flex workspace giant IWG that its worldwide office network will be able to make use of IWG locations….
AXIOS
Office workers around the world are being told they can work from home forever. But that doesn’t mean they should. Why it matters: Even though work is possible from anywhere, most companies are sticky, and they will hold onto their in-person cultures. That means those who stay home might be out of sight and out of mind when it comes to promotions and other opportunities.
CREtech+
Join David Eisenberg for Part 3 of A Disciplined Approach to Bold New Tech where he discusses what areas of real estate tech that currently excite him the most, the areas of the business that are not currently being addressed that he thinks will have the most potential in the near future, and what he could see himself doing if he were not running a Venture Capital firm.
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