Why Workplace Wellness Is Sweeping The Office Market
GLOBEST
Workplace wellness is becoming a top consideration for office users, and lack of attention to the trend could impact leasing activity.
Latest Trends and Insights in Real Estate Technology
Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
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Google researchers develop AI for better facial recognition and object detection on smartphones
VENTUREBEAT
Apps that detect objects, classify images, and recognize faces are nothing new in the world of smartphones; they’ve been popularized by apps like Google Lens and Snapchat, to name a few. But ubiquity is no substitute for quality, and the underlying machine learning models most use — convolutional neural networks — tend to suffer from either slowness or inaccuracy. It’s a computational trade-off forced by hardware constraints.
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Demand For Co-Working Still Insatiable
GLOBEST
The amount of space dedicated to co-working in the Chicago market has more than tripled since 2014.
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Dominic Zabriskie Appointed COO of CRETech.com
THE NEWS FUNNEL
New York, NY (August 7, 2017) — CREtech (CREtech.com), the leading commercial real estate tech event and content platform in the industry is pleased to announce that Dominic Zabriskie has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer. He will report directly to CREtech’s CEO, Michael Beckerman.
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Guest Blog – Building Emotional Engagement with Tenants using Virtual Reality
CRETech
By David Gull, CEO & Co-Founder, Outer Realm People are funny. They make decisions based on emotions and justify their decisions with logic. Well actually, it’s a bit more nuanced than that. According to a Harvard Business Review article by Michael D. Harris, major decisions are made subconsciously, and these subconscious decisions are based on a deeply empirical mental processing system that follows a logic of its own. This subconscious/intuitive decision is then communicated to the c…
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Want Innovation? Turn In-House
CRETech
We tend to look outward for leading innovations, but sometimes the best ideas lie underfoot. If your commercial real estate firm aims to hire leading talent, then it makes sense that your best innovators already work for you. Take JLL’s example. While the company does have an outward-facing arm in JLL Spark, the company additionally turns inward to stay cutting-edge. JLL’s Da Vinci Awards rewards employees for creating unique solutions for their clients. About the Da Vinci Awards Now in its 15…
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CoStar Group sets the record straight
CONNECTED
Commercial real estate information company CoStar Group recently released a statement to address some reporting it found to be inaccurate in a recent article The Real Deal published. The article covered CoStar’s second quarter earnings call and included statements attributed CoStars Chief Executive Office and the company it said were never made….
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This is What the Latest Data Tells Us About Different Asset Types
ENERTIV
With the plummeting cost of sensor technology and the proliferation of analytics platforms to convert data into usable insights, real estate owners and operators are deploying solutions to monitor all sorts of outputs from their tenants and building systems. Often, IoT deployments are targeted towards solving specific problems that are caused by chronic issues. Now that over 2 billion hours of data have been collected (and another 3,000 hours every minute), we can work backwards to understand…
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TGI Fridays doubled business and grew engagement 500% with AI (VB Live)
VENTUREBEAT
In the past 14 months, overall engagement for restaurant chain TGI Fridays has grown more than 500 percent, says Sherif Mityas, the company’s chief experience officer. And with personalized outreach, they’ve doubled online business in the last year, to the tune of millions of dollars.
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Jay Suites to Knotel: Stay out of my house
THE REAL DEAL
When two flexible office companies sign leases in the same building, things can get messy. Jay Suites plans to file an injunction to block its landlord at 30 Broad Street, Tribeca Associates, from bringing its rival Knotel into the property….
