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Pinterest cancels huge SF office lease in unbuilt project, citing work-from-home shift

Lauren August 31, 2020

Pinterest terminated a massive 490,000-square-foot lease at San Francisco’s unbuilt 88 Bluxome project, citing a shift toward more remote work amid the coronavirus pandemic. The company will instead continue leasing four existing San Francisco offices, including 65...

JPMorgan will have staff cycle between office and remote in a move that may remake Wall Street

Lauren August 31, 2020

With Wall Street preparing for more of its traders and bankers to return to offices next month, a shift underway at JPMorgan Chase may have lasting implications for the entire industry. Workers in the firm’s corporate and investment bank, an industry heavyweight with 60,950 employees, will cycle between days at the office and at home, keepi...

Opendoor launches… a brokerage?

Lauren August 31, 2020

The line between traditional iBuyer and brokerage is getting ever-so-blurry for venture-backed startup Opendoor. The company, armed with $4.3 billion in debt and equity funding, is looking to bring aboard real estate agents in Phoenix, Arizona, to support its “Home Reserve” iBuying platform,

Amazon Go technology could come to Whole Foods in 2021

Lauren August 31, 2020

The ecommerce titan plans to start rolling out the technology it uses at its Amazon Go stores to Whole Foods locations in Q2 2021,

RealPage acquires real estate IoT startup Stratis

Lauren August 31, 2020

RealPage, a publicly traded full-service property management technology firm with over 12,200 clients worldwide, today announced that it has acquired Stratis IoT, a startup that provides IoT services to the real estate industry, with a f...

Amazon opens its first Amazon Fresh physical grocery store, in LA

Lauren August 27, 2020

The shift to online shopping has accelerated in the COVID-19 pandemic, but today Amazon made a bold move that underscores its belief that physical stores will remain a key component of how consumers shop. In the Los Angeles neighborhood o...

Google launches Nest Hub for hotels to close the gap with Amazon

Lauren August 27, 2020

Google today announced a new hospitality solution with Google Assistant on a Nest Hub tailored for hotel guests to make service requests, check out, play music, make calls, and more. It’s the company’s answer to

ABC Launches Tech Alliance to Help Contractors Transform the Construction Process

Lauren August 26, 2020

The need for technological solutions—both big and small—in the construction industry is clear, especially given changing work conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Matt Abeles, ABC’s vice president of construction technology and innovation. “I look forward to the exceptional products, education and dialogue the Tech Alliance companies will bring to ABC members and our evolving i...

Envisioning the New Normal: Real Estate + Technology: Part 7

Lauren August 26, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic has sent shockwaves through market operations of most real estate asset classes, the industrial sector has remained largely unscathed – and has even seen growth accelerated by the impacts of the pandemic. While hotel, retail and office property owners and managers are grappling with the financial challenges associated with the virus outbreak and its effects, , particip...

6-foot-distancing rule is outdated, Oxford and MIT created new system

Lauren August 26, 2020

In the late 1800s, the German scientist Carl Flügge had a hunch: Maybe if you maintain enough physical distance between people who are sick and those who are well, you can prevent the spread of pathogens from person to person.