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  • Brokerage Melds to Clients’ Objectives and Evolving Business

    GLOBEST

    DALLAS—Avison Young recently announced the strategic hiring of Charlie Morris. Reporting to the CEO, Morris becomes the leader of Avison Young’s US flexible office solutions practice with a mandate to oversee the management and development of this practice in the US and to expand it across the globe. Morris was most recently director of business development for LiquidSpace, a company that supports the flexible-office economy. In this exclusive, he discusses what type of experience he brings f…

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  • Eden Names Former Vornado Exec Brian Snow a Vice Chairman

    EDEN

    SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Eden, the market leading workplace management platform, has named industry veteran Brian Snow a Vice Chairman. In the role, Snow will report to company co-Founder and CEO Joe Du Bey, and play a key role in providing strategy for the 65-person company. Eden is the first tech-forward facility management company, with all of the services and software needed to manage an experience-first workplace. The company is currently available to over 65 percent of the office…

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  • The 2019 Real Estate Marketing Awards (#REMAS) Are Open! Enter Now!

    REMAS

    NEW YORK, September 23, 2019 – The Real Estate Marketing Awards (#REMAS), an annual creative competition that recognizes and awards the best marketing projects, agencies and marketers in the real estate industry each year, announced today that applications are now being accepted for their third annual Real Estate Marketing Awards (#REMAS). The #REMAS awards are owned and operated by The News Funnel….

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  • Deep-pocketed co-living company wants to make a splash in Austin

    AUSTIN BUSINESS JOURNAL

    A global co-living business is homing in on Austin as part of its big U.S. expansion. Germany-based Quarters plans to open in 2021 a five-story, 120-bedroom co-living facility at 1108 Nueces St. downtown, according to a Sept. 18 announcement — replacing a low-slung office building currently on the site. The company said it would be Austin’s largest space for co-living, usually defined as housing where residents share communal areas such as kitchens….

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  • IKEA is investing $2.8 billion in renewable energy infrastructure

    QUARTZ

    The world’s largest furniture company is determined to go off-grid, and it’s developing an affordable solar energy program to convince you to do the same. Timed for the UN Climate Action Summit in New York next week, IKEA’s holding company Ingka Group revealed that it has invested €2.5 billion ($2.76 billion) in solar and wind energy systems over the last decade to power its global operations. The Leiden-based unit, which controls 367 of IKEA’s 423 retail outlets, already has a stake in two sola…

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  • Startups That Offer New Paths to Homeownership

    WSJ

    People with steady incomes but less-than-perfect credit are often shut out of buying homes because they can’t qualify for a mortgage. A San Francisco startup, Divvy Homes, says it has an answer: It buys homes on behalf of clients, then rents the homes to the consumers as part of a deal that lets them build up equity toward a purchase. Divvy, along with companies such as ZeroDown, Flyhomes and others, are among a wave of startups creating new paths to homeownership at a time when high home …

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  • Clutter acquires The Storage Fox for $152M to add self-storage to its on-demand platform

    TECHCRUNCH

    The world of on-demand storage has seen some ups and downs, with some of the biggest hopefuls pivoting into new areas, some as unrelated as cryptocurrency, in the search for better product-market fit. One that found its groove early on, however, is today announcing an acquisition to expand its existing business into a new market category. Clutter, the on-demand removals and storage company backed by SoftBank, is today announcing that it has acquired The Storage Fox, a startup that will spearhead…

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  • Hudson Pacific Electricity Consumption Is Now All Carbon Neutral

    GLOBEST

    Hudson Pacific’s electricity consumption is now all carbon neutral. In a three-year partnership with Calpine Energy Solutions, the firm has acquired the environmental attributes associated with 577,000 megawatt-hours from Horse Hollow III Wind Farm, located in Wingate, Texas. The deal should offset Hudson’s greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 121,500 metric tons of CO2 over the next three years.

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  • Compass opens West Coast tech hub 2 blocks from Amazon’s headquarters

    HOUSING WIRE

    Compass, a real estate brokerage and tech company, opened an office in Seattle that’s two blocks from Amazon’s headquarters and a mile from Zillow’s main offices. New York-based Compass now has three floors of a new building at 503 Westlake Avenue that will eventually house over 100 engineers and 70 operations staff. The Seattle campus will be Compass’ West Coast technology hub and will be the nexus of the company’s six regional offices in Washington, the company said in a statement….

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  • Knotel Further Boosts Manhattan Footprint

    CP EXECUTIVE

    Knotel has increased its Manhattan presence by signing a lease with ATCO Properties & Management for 27,186 square feet at 240 W. 35th St. The coworking company will take up the building’s entire seventh, eighth and 18th floors by late fall. The Class A property encompasses 165,000 square feet across 18 stories. Knotel’s space will undergo build-outs executed by the landlord’s in-house contractor, Essential Design + Build. The new location will include collaborative areas, open offices an…

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