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  • Lessons learned while moving into the virtual world…

    Michael Beckerman

    Exhausted… But inspired! That’s how I felt last Thursday night after our first four day virtual event concluded. Two full days focused on Europe and two days focused on U.S. content. But it was a different type of exhaustion. Not physical, but mental. Let me start by saying programming a virtual conference is unlike anything I have ever done before. It provided us with tremendous programming opportunities and a much wider pool of C-Suite business leaders to be interviewed and so, like ever…

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  • Home Sales Are On Fire… And Being Done Like Never Before

    Forbes

    Recently I ordered things online that I never thought that I would; however, these are unique times. And, although I have surprised myself with my online shopping habits, I haven’t ordered a home. Yet. Many home builders are creating processes that are leading more and more to a complete online experience for the home buyer. Linda Mamet is chief marketing officer at TRI Pointe Group, a California-based on-site home builder, and shares some of the company’s recent digital success. Almost half of …

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  • Coronavirus Accelerates Plans to Put Urban Commuters on Bicycles

    Wall Street Journal

    Most of Paris was asleep when a team of men in orange overalls fanned out across an avenue in the 11th arrondissement with blowtorches and road paint. They labored for hours to show Parisians a radical new way to use their 400-year-old street. By daybreak, one lane of regular traffic was gone and the asphalt was lined with rows of freshly stenciled yellow bicycles. Squads like this one have been dispatched almost nightly across the City of Light since France first lifted its coronavirus lockdown…

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  • Remote work really does mean longer days — and more meetings

    Washington Post

    The average workday lengthened by 48.5 minutes in the weeks following stay-at-home orders and lockdowns, and the number of meetings increased by 13 percent, a working paper published Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research showed.

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  • COUNTING ON THE FUTURE: DENSITY

    LPC Ventures

    Making corporate real estate size decisions has always been a game of guess and growth. You estimated your headcount needs in the coming years, you estimated how people would use the space, you worked with an architect to test out architectural layouts and hoped that come move in day everyone was happy! Obviously that is a vast over-simplification but corporate real estate decisions have traditionally been made by intuition and rationale, not data. In the absence of data, we are left with strong…

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  • Office Markets Under Pressure as Coronavirus Squeezes Cities

    Wall Street Journal

    Urban office markets and other commercial real estate in major cities are experiencing their worst stretch in decades, upended by the pandemic, changes in work behavior and struggling city economies. Tourism in most cities has slowed to a trickle, business travel and meetings have all but dried up, and retail sales have plummeted as shoppers stay home. Protests against police brutality and systemic racism have also caused nervous storefront owners to keep their properties boarded up. Cities from…

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  • Startups Must Make Board Diversity a Priority

    Pulse – Matt Ellis

    I have six wonderful Directors and three Observers on my board, plus myself. All are white and only one female. Here’s how we recognized the need to change and went about making it happen. Board diversity, or the lack thereof on my board, should have been obvious – I run an ESG company after all so am well acquainted with data proving diverse companies deliver superior performance. In recognition of this fact, our company put diversity targets in place early on and funded programs supporting wom…

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  • WATCH NOW: In Case You Missed It, View Giraffe’s FULL Tech Demo from Reimagining Real Estate

    Giraffe

    Giraffe – What’s Broken With Property Development? Giraffe is the development prototyping platform. Development projects are complicated and need many eyes to validate & de-risk the investment. Coordinating all these sets of eyes is painstaking, error-prone and slow. Imagine if all those parties (development managers, designers, finance guys, sales people, investors & city planners) had a single source of truth to keep the project moving fast, minimise data translation errors and eradica…

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  • New Tech Company Provides Off-Market Rental Deals

    GlobeSt

    A new real estate tech company is providing off-market listings to renters. Southern California-based PocketList is an apartment rental platform that provides rental listings before they are widely marketed, giving the renters a leg up on snagging the best housing. But, it isn’t only renters that are benefitting. Landlords will see vacancies fill faster, creating more stable occupancy and cash flow.

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  • This week only get 15% off (use code REIMAGINE2020) for On Demand Content from Reimagining Real Estate Global Virtual Summit

    CREtech

    Missed the virtual summit or want to rewatch a session? Watch over 75 interviews and sessions featuring C-Suite thought leaders who took the stage at the world’s largest real estate tech summit on demand now.

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