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  • 20 questions for CRE startup Truss’ co-founder Bobby Goodman

    THE REAL DEAL

    The online listings platform for office, retail and industrial properties has raised $9M in venture funding. Raised in the Chicago suburb of Glencoe, Bobby Goodman, 39, jumped into the world of real estate startups after working as a commercial broker for a little shy of two decades. He co-founded Truss alongside three technologists, one of whom was a long-time client, in 2016 to serve small and medium businesses by building an online listings platform. Truss features office properties in …

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  • Upclose With Altus Group CEO, Bob Courteau

    GLOBEST

    GlobeSt.com caught up with Bob Courteau, CEO at Altus Group, to talk a bit more about his recent RealComm panel, where he said that he is now seeing a different analytics model that is beginning to focus on a “give get” approach. Bob Courteau, CEO at Altus Group, recently spoke at RealComm and caught up with GlobeSt.com to talk a bit more about his panel discussion: “The Age of Acceleration—The Real Estate Tech Giants Weigh In.” As part of the discussion, he told us that the technologies comi…

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  • Global Coworking Company Mindspace Launches Platform for Brokers

    COMMERCIAL OBSERVER

    Looking to bridge the divide between brokers and coworking companies, global coworking network Mindspace has launched what it is billing as a “one-of-a-kind platform” that lets brokers placing tenants in a Mindspace outpost easily register and track referrals, earn commission and streamline all of their data in one place, Commercial Observer has learned.

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  • Can smart city tech shape America’s real estate?

    JLL

    Drones monitor construction progress. Robots probe the sewer system for insights into human health. Streetlights maximize street parking and report on air pollution. These innovations are not taken from the storyline of a sci-fi series. They are real technologies in use in so-called “smart cities,” and they have the power to transform urban life in America. “The 20th century city was really inefficient,” says Dennis Frenchman, Professor of Urban Design and Planning at MIT. “As startups dev…

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  • Paying your rent by check is becoming a thing of the past

    NEW YORK POST

    Morgan Munsey is a landlord in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a Brooklyn neighborhood with long-time, older residents that’s gotten an influx of young renters. Munsey houses both types of tenants in his townhouse properties — but for the younger crowd, he says, they’ve mostly forgone the traditional rent check and opted for a more tech-friendly method of payment. Tenants like Lindsay Branham and Andrew Ellis take advantage of Cozy, a website that allows Munsey to sign leases, collect rent and send it st…

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  • The home-flipping startup Opendoor requires a lot of money. It now has $325 million more. And SoftBank could come next.

    RECODE

    Ex-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is also disclosing his first venture capital investment. The real estate industry requires a lot of money to challenge it: Startups like Opendoor — which buys houses from people and flips them — not only need investment to grow into more cities, but also serious lines of credit in order to purchase homes. Opendoor has already taken out $1.5 billion in loans for home buying. And the company now says it has accepted another $325 million in new financing that values it…

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  • Exclusive Q&A with Jake Edens, SVP, Technology and Innovation at Colliers

    CRETech

    Jake Edens is Senior Vice President of Technology & Innovation, USA at Colliers International. In this role, Edens manages the technology and innovation strategy for the U.S. business, working directly with our business leaders and IT teams to build cutting-edge applications for our advisors and support staff to help Colliers foster an organized and connected data ecosystem Edens brings a robust and unique set of experiences to Colliers, having worked within the industry at Trammell Crow …

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  • Prefab construction startup Katerra adds another design firm as it moves to upturn construction industry

    Silicon Valley Business Journal

    Construction startup Katerra Inc. on Tuesday said it has added its second architectural firm in two weeks to help it reinvent the design and building industry. The Menlo Park company has acquired architecture, interior design and planning firm Lord Aeck Sargent (LAS), which has offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Lexington, Kentucky; and Washington, D.C. Terms of the deal were not disclosed….

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  • Reonomy looks to Canada and Western Europe following $30M funding round

    The Real Deal

    Reonomy has its sights set on Canada and Western Europe, after it secured $30 million in a new fundraising round. The Series C funding round led by Sapphire Ventures brings the company’s total fundraising to $68.4 million, and comes just months after a $16 million Series B funding round. Existing investors Bain Capital Ventures and Softbank Capital joined the most recent round. The flurry of activity follows a three-year hiatus from fundraising, during which the company rolled out its prod…

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  • Office Tracking Devices: Enhanced User Experience Or Big Brother Watching?

    BISNOW

    What does it take to convince a corporate executive to surrender his or her corner office with a view? Evidence backed by data to support the argument that flexible and collaborative workspace is more efficient than traditionally closed offices.  To design office spaces centered around an enjoyable work environment, having a deep understanding of how the staff makes use of that space is crucial. Using technology to monitor employees’ movements throughout the day is a popular way for employers to…

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