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  • Energy-Efficient Investments Boosting Real Estate Portfolio Valuations

    FORBES

    The quest to slash carbon emissions is continuing to spark energy-efficiency investments by real estate owners across North America. Real estate holdings are optimal places to seek greater efficiencies because, as widely reported, existing buildings account for 40% of North American energy use, and also account for at least 35% of total carbon emissions. Owners have discovered that smarter energy use is not just good for society and the planet, but for their own real estate portfolios’ bottom li…

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  • Not Done Yet: WeWork Raises $340M Of Fresh Equity To Continue Building Acquisition Drive

    BISNOW

    WeWork has raised a fresh slug of equity for the fund it is using to make real estate acquisitions. According to filings made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, WeWork raised $341M of fresh equity for WeWork Property Investors last week. The equity takes the total amount raised by the fund to $747M. With the equity, WeWork has the ability to become a significant owner as well as occupier of real estate. So far its buying has been focused on New York and London.

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  • Hdac Technology Announces Business Strategy and Technology Roadmap English

    PR NEWSWIRE

    SEOUL, South Korea, March 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Hdac Technology, a blockchain technology company, founded by Hyundai BS&C CEO Dae Sun Chung in October 2017, held a press conference on March 13 at Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas, to present future business strategy and technology development roadmap. Hdac Technology is a tech company under blockchain project ‘Hdac’. Hdac is a hybrid blockchain platform integrating public and private blockchains and is designed as enterprise architec…

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  • Cedar Street founder teams up with former WeWork employee to launch amenity and property management platform

    THE REAL DEAL

    In developing 8,000 apartment units over 15-plus years, Alex Samoylovich learned quite a bit about the demands of renters and the inefficiencies in multifamily property management. Now the founder of Cedar Street Companies and Flats Chicago is using that knowledge to launch Livly, a property management system that streamlines the apps and technology that renters and landlords use.

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  • Co-Living Trend Gets Interest and Money from Investors

    NATIONAL REAL ESTATE INVESTOR

    Investors are showing a growing appetite for co-living start-ups, though multifamily sector experts doubt the co-living trend will disrupt the housing sector. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in co-living start-ups in the last 18 months, according to Jeffrey Pang, CEO of Homeshare, a co-living marketplace. In major U.S. cities, where housing costs are high, such as San Francisco, millennials would have to spend 77 percent of their income on rent to afford the average one-bed…

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  • Coldwell Banker Commercial picks Daniel Spiegel as managing director

    HOUSING WIRE

    Coldwell Banker Commercial named Daniel Spiegel as its managing director on Monday. In his new role, Spiegel will oversee the strategy implementation and daily operations of the Coldwell Banker Commercial brand, the company explained in a press release. Spiegel comes to Coldwell Banker from global commercial real estate services company Colliers International, where he served as an executive vice president of U.S. operations and led the integration of acquired businesses and brokerage divi…

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  • Real-Estate Startups Try Their Hand at Private-Equity Investing

    WSJ

    Five months after the co-working firm Bond Collective signed a 42,000-square-foot lease in a Brooklyn office building, the property’s owners flipped it for a hefty profit. “Hey, we can essentially do the same thing,” Bond Collective founder Shlomo Silber recalled thinking after learning of the sale. Four years later, the firm is co-managing its own real-estate fund. The fund owns stakes in properties in Miami, Nashville, Chicago and New York City and is in contract to buy two more. …

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  • Register Free for CREtech’s Virtual Demo Day

    CREtech

    It’s not too late! Register now & for FREE for CREtech’s Virtual Demo Day today March 13 at 12pm est. Experience demos from the most innovative tech companies in commercial real estate. Virtual Demo Day is the best way to discover startups that you need to know about without leaving your desk.

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  • Convene Partners With Healthcare Startup To Put Clinics In Coworking Spaces

    BISNOW

    As part of its effort to be all things to all office users, Convene is bringing a new kind of amenity to flexible offices. A new partnership with healthcare startup Eden will place clinics within Convene’s flexible office footprint. The clinics can serve as primary care contacts for Convene members and other office tenants in the building, and can use virtual healthcare technology to consult with specialists and save square footage.

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  • A 3-D-Printed Family Home? A Texas Startup Says It Can Deliver

    WSJ

    AUSTIN, Texas—A Texas startup says it will be able to use a 3-D printer to churn out a concrete house within days by year-end, a technology that has the potential to help solve housing shortages but faces regulatory and technical hurdles. “It’s no longer a science project,” said Jason Ballard, co-founder and chief executive of the construction-technology company, Icon. The firm says the printer, unveiled Monday, can produce bungalows of up to 2,000 square feet, nearly as large as the typical…

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