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  • Why Your Biggest Amenity is Connectivity

    CRETech

    You might be surprised to learn location is taking a backseat to connectivity when businesses search for new office space. Stop and think about it: with today’s modern workforce utilizing more Software-as-a-Service platforms, analyzing large quantities of data, and the increase in remote work, quality Internet connection is essential to running a successful business. Commercial real estate office space providers need to treat connectivity as a priority feature to attract and retain tenants. …

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  • Attention All Real Estate Professionals Who Like Me, Are on the “Mature” Side of Life 🙂

    CRETech

    If you are like me, (I am 53) or maybe a few years older or younger, technology isn’t something that comes very natural or intuitively to you. We weren’t born with a device or screen in our hands so it’s understandable that we aren’t completely immersed in how things work under the hood, tech-wise. But that hasn’t stopped us from being completely addicted to these tools now. But unfortunately, being ignorant to tech is going to be the professional demise of my peer group unless many in the co…

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  • Welcoming two new partners, Sarah Cannon and Mark Goldberg

    INDEX VENTURES

    We’re delighted to welcome two new Partners to our investing team, Sarah Cannon and Mark Goldberg. Sarah was previously at CapitalG, Alphabet’s growth equity fund, and Mark is being promoted to Partner, having joined Index almost three years ago from Dropbox. Both Sarah and Mark will be based in our San Francisco office, and will work closely with our extended global team, across Europe and the US. We’re thrilled to have someone as talented as Sarah join our team. Not only is Sarah…

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  • Why self-driving cars will cause sprawl (according to an Italian Physicist)

    MEDIUM 99MPH

    At 99mph, we think about the second-order effects of self-driving cars (aka autonomous vehicles or AVs). Last time we wrote about how AVs will bring about a $1 trillion shift in real estate across 13 major US metros — a phenomenon we call “The Great Flattening.” In this post, we want to delve into the core claim— that AVs will result in massive sprawl — a bit deeper To do so, let’s get historical. AVs aren’t the first new transit tech to come onto the scene. How have previous changes in mobili…

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  • It’s 2018. I Want To Buy A $100 Million Asset. This Is What I Need NOW!

    DUKE LONG

    So let’s set the stage. I’m sitting where? In a WeWork, in a marble-lined conference room, on the deck of a condo looking at the beach or just sitting in a chair watching some golf. I could be looking at my phone but my preferred device is still a laptop. I hit a couple of keys and click on a preset login. What comes up. My personal trading/analytics/portfolio management dashboard. And what do I see? TOOLS! My TOOLS! The first tool I have is one that allows me to do what? Create, cre…

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  • VTS Plans Tool to Help Commercial Real Estate Clients Track Market Trends

    WALL STREET JOURNAL

    The big data scrum in the commercial real-estate industry is about to heat up with the launch of a new service by a startup whose investors include Blackstone Group LP.

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  • New Software Revolutionizes Site Planning

    GLOBEST

    Common Areas launches Common Plans, a new software to provide GPS-enabled site and building plans. Common Areas has launched Common Plans, a new software that promises to bring efficiency and ease to site and building planning. The GPS-enabled software is a cloud-based asset mapping program that pairs with Common Areas to create, store and share work orders for properties and facilities. We sat down with Casey Rue, the founder and CEO of Common Areas, to talk about the new software, what user…

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  • AI edges closer to understanding 3D space the way we do

    TECHCRUNCH

    If I show you a single picture of a room, you can tell me right away that there’s a table with a chair in front of it, they’re probably about the same size, about this far from each other, with the walls this far away — enough to draw a rough map of the room. Computer vision systems don’t have this intuitive understanding of space, but the latest research from DeepMind brings them closer than ever before. The new paper from the Google -owned research outfit was published today in the journal …

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  • WeWork Doubled Revenue Last Quarter

    BLOOMBERG

    As WeWork Cos. grows globally, the startup is also packing more people into its rental office spaces. The move helped drive revenue up 110 percent to $342 million last quarter, according to a staff email Thursday about the co-working company’s financial performance. The occupancy rate for WeWork buildings, where startups and large companies rent office space, rose to 82 percent at the end of the first quarter, up from 73 percent a year ago, according to the email viewed by Bloomberg. WeWork exp…

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  • The Key For Construction Firms Adopting More Job-Site Tech Is To Get Out Of The Way

    BISNOW

    Despite different tech solutions to increase productivity on the job site, construction remains slow to adopt technologies and many field workers face significant pushback over the cost of implementation. Construction professionals are grappling with how to pay for new technology while also explaining to chief information officers and those who approve the budgets how these products are improving job-site performance. Read more at: https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/construction-development…

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