Apartment Startup Common Bets on Expansion Despite Pandemic

Apartment rents in big cities are dropping, but some entrepreneurs and venture investors are still making long-term bets on the housing industry. Co-living and rental-apartment management company Common completed the raising of $50 million in new venture capital this month, becoming the latest apartment startup to wager it can expand despite the pandemic. Earlier this summer, apartment-development startup Juno Residential Inc. launched with $11 million in venture funding.

In case you missed it, watch the FULL video recap of Building a Better Future: A preview of our Sustainability Summit

From smart buildings to smart cities, two of the most influential and important voices in the world of real estate sustainability discuss how the real estate industry can take the lead in “Building A Better Future”. Lindsay Baker, Sustainability Consultant for the CREtech Global Innovation Consulting Practice and Brendan Wallace, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Fifth Wall, are serving as the Co-Chairs for CREtech’s upcoming Reimagining Real Estate Sustainability Summit, Part 1 focused on US…

NYC to host climate solutions center on Governors Island

UPDATED, Sept. 21, 2020: The Trust for Governors Island last week unveiled its plans for the development of a climate change solutions center on the island that could create 8,000 new jobs and $1 billion in economic impact for the city.

WeWork CEO talks about the co-working company’s latest new tenants: College students

A little more than a year ago, WeWork’s parent company, The We Company, filed to take the co-working company public. But a lot has happened in the past 12 months. This time last year, WeWork was busy trying to defuse investor concerns over its corporate governance structure. Its CEO stepped down, it postponed its IPO and received a bailout from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. …

Why Airbnb Launched a Data-Sharing Tool for Cities

When startups go public, a big part of the process is opening up their books and being more transparent about their business model. With global short-term rental giant Airbnb moving towards its own IPO, the company has introduced a new product that seeks to address recent safety concerns and answer the data-sharing requests that critics have long claimed make the company a less-than-perfect partner for local leaders. …

VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE: Putting the Pieces Together, A Fully-Connected Multifamily Community

IOTAS, premier provider of cutting edge integrated Smart Apartment Technology solutions, teams up with leaders in connectivity, access control, management, and other property technologies to explore options available for today’s multifamily and mixed-use assets, and how to pull the pieces together to create optimal experiences for residents and management teams alike.

Fly on the Wall: Ari Mir, Clutter + Brendan Wallace, Fifth Wall

In episode 27 of Fly on the Wall, Brendan sits down with Ari Mir, CEO & Co-Founder of portfolio company Clutter. The two discuss Clutter’s door-to-door self-storage platform, how technology-enabled warehouses have impacted the industry, and the software Clutter developed to organize its facilities. They also discuss trends the company is seeing as a result of COVID-19, including migrations out of Manhattan and San Francisco. Finally, Ari shares his vision for the future of storage, which inv…

ICD Brookfield Place Selects Facilio to Deliver on a Connected & Sustainable Built Environment

The Reimagining Real Estate Sustainability Summit – Last chance to register FREE

With just one week to go to the CREtech Sustainability Summit, we wanted to share the full agenda with you so you can start planning your schedule. The conference is entirely virtual so you can pop in and out during the sessions that are important to you and multitask with the conversations playing in the background….

CREtech Consulting Report: Reimagining Cities and the Entire Built World

CREtech is proud to introduce our new monthly content series focused on our Global Innovation Consulting Practice. Each month we will take a deep dive on an important trend in the world of real estate technology and innovation. These themes, which are carefully selected by our world-class team of Consultants and Advisors, will then be released to our community through a series of insightful webinars, blogs and market research. CREtech Consulting Talks: Reimagining Cities and the Entire Built Wo…