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  • Top 11 ROI Drivers for your Smart Community

    IOTAS

    Congratulations! Either you’re already investing in smart technology for your properties, are considering investing while weighing your options, crunching numbers and listening to value propositions of the various companies competing in the space, or you’re a property manager tasked with selling an additional amenity to provide a leg up on the competition. In the end, this technology will not just be something to contemplate but will be an incredible tool driving a new era in modern apartment li…

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  • Accruent Launches Accruent Academy, a Continuous Training Resource to Drive User Adoption, ROI and Meet Compliance Regulations

    ACCRUENT

    Austin, Texas, July 11, 2018– Accruent, the world’s leading provider of physical resource management solutions, announced today the global launch of the Accruent Academy Learning Center, a continuous training resource for customers. The Academy includes courses ranging from small classroom settings and train-the-trainer sessions to large training solutions with role-based, eLearning training in multiple languages that can be utilized by a customer’s learning management system. “The actual fin…

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  • JLL Recruits Google Exec For New Position

    GLOBEST

    CHICAGO–JLL has recruited talent from Google whose goal is to guide the broker into becoming its own proptech shop. Former Google executive Vinay Goel has been tapped as Chief Digital Product Officer, a new position for JLL. Goel’s first day was Tuesday. Goel’s intent in this new role is to refocus JLL’s tech initiatives around products instead of the service orientation the company has taken to date. “We are going to think through the role of technology and transform the services we provide …

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  • 17 Ways Co-Working Has Literally Changed Everything

    CRETech

    Forbes made the point of how the Apple iPhone upended Nokia’s dominance in the cell phone industry and compares that to the way that WeWork and new co-working models have changed everything. It’s changed the types of places where offices are located, it’s changed the way that offices are designed, and it has changed the way companies target workers.     A building is no longer necessary to run a legitimate business. Businesses and workers have way more flexibility over where they work than…

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  • Behind Our Series B: Creating Value Through Purpose-Built Tech for Owners

    HONEST BUILDINGS

    A few weeks ago we closed our Series B: a $30 million round of funding from an incredibly strategic group of partners. The investors included some of the real estate industry’s largest and most innovative commercial real estate owners alongside real estate focused venture capital funds. We raised this round to accelerate the creation of a new category of technology platform built specifically for owners who oversee the $10 trillion per year annual global construction spend. To do this we’ll cont…

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  • Uber moves forward with flying taxis in Paris

    BUILDOUT

    The city of lights is now Uber’s city of flying taxi development. That means we’re one step closer to using flying taxis on our commutes, and cities could feel the effects of flying vehicles within the next decade. What’s happening? When we last discussed flying cars in October 2017, flying cars had been in the works for some time already, including projects from: Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority in partnership with German start-up Volocopter French aircraft company Airbus Uber…

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  • Amazon HQ2 is still a mystery, but this real estate startup already plans to expand to the winning city

    GEEK WIRE

    Bryan Copley remembers “the day that the last single-family residence in South Lake Union was bulldozed.” The CityBldr CEO has lived in the same Seattle neighborhood Amazon calls home for about four years. He has watched South Lake Union transform to keep pace with Amazon’s rapid growth, a metamorphosis that is far from complete. “I can see 13 cranes from my deck,” says Copley. Two or three years ago, Copley was walking down Republican Street when he witnessed the razing of a house. He has…

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  • How to 3-D Print an Entire House in a Single Day

    WIRED

    A TYPICAL SINGLE-FAMILY home in the US takes an average of six and a half months to build, according to the Census Bureau’s latest survey. Now an Austin-based startup called Icon can erect a house nearly 200 times faster—in a day. WHAT: The Vulcan, a house-building 3-D printer SIZE: 12.5 x 22.5 x 35 feet WEIGHT: 1 ton TOP SPEED: 5 inches per second To be fair, the company is building houses that max out at 800 square feet, but that’s not the limit. The hyperspeed fabrica…

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  • Market Map: 140+ Real Estate Tech Companies Transforming the $32 Trillion Housing Market

    GEEK ESTATE BLOG

    Residential real estate has proven to be a strong driver of economic growth and individual wealth, representing more than 15% of our nation’s GDP. The combined value of housing in the United States reached a record-high $31.8 trillion in 2017, according to Zillow. Yet until recently, venture capitalists rarely invested in the sector. In 2010, investment in real estate technology companies made up less than 1 percent of total venture capital (only about $30 million). By 2017, however, activity…

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  • Common Co-Living Lands In Miami

    BISNOW

    First came coworking, now comes co-living. In this emerging format of multifamily development, residents have their own private rooms but share kitchens and other areas; it is related to a dorm or hostel, but with stylish furniture, group yoga classes and rents commensurate with an upscale experience. Common, a New York-based company that operates 20 co-living sites in major cities, is expanding into Miami with two brand-new developments in Little Havana that will open in 2020. Expanding into…

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