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When it comes to technology, the real estate industry has traditionally been slower to embrace advancements than many other fields. Breakthroughs eagerly adopted by other industries initially met with resistance from leading real estate players, leading to the kind of delayed adoption that unnecessarily hems in sales and profits. But as competition has grown more robust year after year the real...

Office-space company Breather is stocking its executive ranks in a bid to ramp up expansion. The firm, which offers meeting spaces on an hourly basis, and office space from a day to months at a time, has hired former Regus executive Dan Suozzi to lead its real estate division. He started Friday. “My main priority is to expand the portfolio,” said Suozzi. That mission comes at a tumultuous time...

Once considered futuristic, artificial intelligence has been made more accessible and integral to contractors in recent years by several burgeoning startups, through programs such as OpenSpace and Smartvid.io. Adding to the list of firms making inroads in construction technology, two other artificial intelligence-powered companies offering digital solutions for construction managers announced ...

WeWork is launching an incubator of sorts for sustainable food in one of its newest San Francisco locations.

The concept, known as WeWork Food Labs, is slated to open Friday to provide food startups with space to operate and access to mentors and investors. The 15,367-square-foot space at 60 Francisco St. can accommodate a...

Partnered with CREtech, National Realty Club presents to you the second CRE Tech Summit. We will be discussing Technology’s Impact on Real Estate, and how to future proof real estate in the age of innovation. Register today!

This week Toronto won a major fight against Big Tech. But unlike the battles underway in Washington, it wasn’t over digital domains like online privacy or ad sales; rather, it was over something deep out of the city’s industrial pa...

WeWork said it received an early payment of $1.5 billion from SoftBank Group Corp., as the co-working company was weeks away from running out of money. As a result, a slate of governance changes went into effect Wednesday, including th...

The average customer for tech-savvy hospitality startups like Sonder and Yotel has expanded to beyond your average millennial, but traditional hospitality, especially in the Bay Area, isn't worried. For instance, micro-hotel concept Yotel, which debuted in San Francisco earlier this year, has an average guest age of "about 40,"  Yotel North America Senior Vice President of Development Jason Hs...

It was supposed to be a sprawling “smart city” of tomorrow, with sensors tracking the speed of people crossing the streets and robots that could double as trash collectors.

But the overhaul of...

In early 2018, Washington Real Estate Investment Trust acquired a 398,000-square-foot office building in Rosslyn, Va., and got to work converting some of the space for a new co-working venture dubbed Space+. The spot launched in July 2018, and WashREIT leased 90 percent of the initial 96,000 square feet in 90 days. Leases were structured to be flexible, with terms as short as one month and move...