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brandonlin August 03, 2021
In another sign of the ongoing consolidation in the commercial real estate information sector, MSCI Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Real Capital Analytics for $950 million in cash. Founded in 2000, Real Capital Analytics is a private company that has built a strong reputation within the CRE community for aggregating transaction data and providing intelligence on market p...
brandonlin August 02, 2021
Seattle, WA Aug 3rd, 2021 - NavigatorCRE, a leading edge commercial real estate (CRE) data analytics SaaS platform completed its Series A funding round, led by F...
brandonlin August 02, 2021
Style and substance go hand in hand, as both innovation and data collection have laid the foundation for technology’s future in real estate. Spanning three days, the latest Commercial Observer forum — the inaugural IGNITEevent — identified the opportunities that the property technology (proptech) sphere h...
brandonlin August 02, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO — As cyberattacks proliferated this year, Sanjay Beri, the chief executive of Netskope, a cloud security start-up, got a phone call. Then an email. Then more messages.

All were from venture capitalists who wanted to invest in his company. Given the ransomware attacks and nation-state hacks that were making headlines...

brandonlin August 02, 2021
HONG KONG—For years, China Evergrande Group rode some of the biggest trends in Chinese finance, using debt-fueled growth to capitalize on a seemingly unstoppable property boom in China. Global investors, many of whom b...
brandonlin August 02, 2021

Technology innovators and entrepreneurs across Europe are increasingly eyeing the construction industry.

It helps that construction is a mega market of almost €2tn on the continent alone. But founders, and their investors, aren’t attracted only by market size. They’re betting on the impact of digital transformation in an industry that has been, so far, a sleepi...

brandonlin August 01, 2021
ABI Research reckons digital twins will become the ultimate tool for city governments to design, plan and manage their connected infrastructure and achieve cost-savings of $280bn by 2030.
brandonlin August 01, 2021
The nation’s largest single-family rental player is expanding. Invitation Homes will buy 7,500 new homes over the next five years from PulteGroup, the third-largest homebuilder in the U.S., in a bid to capture explosive demand from renters seeking more space.
brandonlin August 01, 2021
In 2015, during California’s last years-long drought, then-Gov. Jerry Brown mandated that Californians cut back ...
brandonlin August 01, 2021
Solar power is no longer an environmentalist’s fantasy but can be an investor’s dream. It is cheap, reliable, and often generated just feet away from the end user. Imagine a business at the forefront of the solar revolution backed by two of the world’s most powerful real estate players – The Blackstone Group, Inc. and CBRE Group, Inc. – to drive growth forward.