CBRE’s McKenna joins Upflex to lead regional HQ

Isobel McKenna, former head of EMEA client solutions at CBRE, will run Upflex’s London-based EMEA HQ following the flex office marketplace’s $30m fundraise. …

Digital Realty Announces Joint Venture With Mivne To Develop New Colocation And Connectivity Hub In Israel And Expand Mediterranean Presence

Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, and Mivne Real Estate (K.D.) (TASE: MVNE), announced today the formation of a joint venture, entry into the Israeli market, and the planned development of a multi-tenant data center campus in Israel.

Satellite Vu to Provide Satellite Data to UK Real Estate Market with Landmark Innovation Group

U.K.-based Satellite Vu will provide climate change data from its thermal monitoring satellites to the United Kingdom real estate market through a partnership with Landmark Information Group.  

View Unveils the Smart Building Cloud, Industry’s First Complete, Cloud-Native Platform for Smart Buildings

View, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIEW), a leader in smart building technologies, today announced the industry’s first complete, cloud-native platform to enable smart buildings. View will unveil the Smart Building Cloud at Realcomm 2022, the world’s largest proptech conference, taking place in Orlando, Florida, June 15-16, where View will be delivering the keynote.

View Unveils the Smart Building Cloud, Industry’s First Complete, Cloud-Native Platform for Smart Buildings

View, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIEW), a leader in smart building technologies, today announced the industry’s first complete, cloud-native platform to enable smart buildings. View will unveil the Smart Building Cloud at Realcomm 2022, the world’s largest proptech conference, taking place in Orlando, Florida, June 15-16, where View will be delivering the keynote.  

Satellite Vu to Provide Satellite Data to UK Real Estate Market with Landmark Innovation Group

U.K.-based Satellite Vu will provide climate change data from its thermal monitoring satellites to the United Kingdom real estate market through a partnership with Landmark Information Group.  

Construction design platform Alice Technologies bags fresh capital to expand

Alice Technologies, a startup developing software to help construction companies plan projects including bridges, tunnels, high-speed rail systems and mixed-use towers, today announced it raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Vanedge Capital, with participation from Access Partners, Bouygues, Gaingels, GRIDS Capital, JLL Spark and MetaPlanet. According to CEO René Morkos, the proceeds will help fuel hiring and product development.

Prologis is buying Duke Realty in an all-stock transaction valued at $26 billion, including the assumption of debt, the companies said

The deal marks the largest commercial real estate sale since the start of the pandemic, according to real estate analytics firm Green Street, and is the latest in a string of blockbuster acquisitions in the sector. Warehouses and distribution centers have been a particularly hot property type—especially during the pandemic—because consumer shopping habits have been shifting online. …

Weekend Interview: JLL Spark Managing Partner Raj Singh

Proptech Firm Embue Gets Bigger Adoption by 2Life

As the frog once sang, it’s not easy being green. In commercial real estate, there are two ways of taking that: reducing carbon footprint to improve ESG standing and also reducing costs at a time of inflation to retain more folding green in the profit column. That, presumably, is why affordable senior housing company 2Life Communities is extending its use of building management and control software from Embue.