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  • Get Enhanced Energy Insights with New Abundant Power Module

    Abundant Power Group

    Today, Abundant Power Group announced they have added a new module to their Platform: the Portfolio Energy Analytics Module. Inspired by the needs expressed by portfolio managers in commercial real estate, this new feature contains energy insights for all buildings in a portfolio and a clear pathway to profitable facility management. Energy Analytics may be used as a stand-alone service, or as a component of Abundant Power’s Performance Analytics suite of services. The new Portfolio Energy Mo…

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  • Home-flipping startup OfferPad ends partnership with Zillow

    The Real Deal

    OfferPad, a home-flipping startup, has severed ties with Zillow after the online listings giant announced it would begin buying houses and reselling them — the exact service offered by OfferPad. Offerpad was one of the first companies to partner with Zillow when it piloted the Instant Offers program last May in Las Vegas and Orlando. The program at the time allowed prospective sellers to market properties to all-cash investors, and wasn’t initially buying properties and re-listing them. Of…

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  • Japan Wants Robots to Help Build Its Skyscrapers

    Bloomberg

    It takes about half a million man-days to erect a 30-story office tower, a number that hasn’t changed much over the years, because building sites have remained largely impervious to advances in automation. That’s becoming a problem for construction companies in Japan. The industry, which bore the brunt of Japan’s prolonged labor shortage, is expecting the situation to get worse with at least a million people set to leave or retire from the profession over the next decade. Shimizu Corp., a Jap…

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  • Brookfield’s New Venture-Capital Unit Eyes Real-Estate Tech Startups

    WSJ

    Brookfield Asset Management BAM -0.08% is the latest global landlord to form a venture-capital unit to plow money into the growing number of potentially disruptive technologies in the real-estate business. Toronto-based Brookfield, which has $285 billion in assets under management, plans to invest $200 million to $300 million over the next three years in startups in its four business lines: real estate, infrastructure, power and private equity, according to Stewart Upson, a Brookfield managin…

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  • TIAA Ties Up With Cutting-Edge Developer For $1.2B Data-Led Office Venture

    Bisnow

    Giant pension fund TIAA has formed a €1B ($1.2B) partnership with an innovative Dutch developer to build European offices that capture data about the people using them to improve the experience in the buildings. TIAA has bought an initial two offices totalling €200M in Amsterdam and Berlin with EDGE Technologies, and plans to fund up to €800M more, with a third deal imminent. TIAA made the acquisition through the Cityhold Office Partnership, a joint venture it has with Danish pension funds AP1 a…

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  • Assess+RE Secures Investment from Real Estate and Finance Industry Luminaries Including Ranieri Strategies

    Assess+RE

    Cloud Platform for Commercial Real Estate Computation and Property Data Analysis Brings Transparency and Efficiency to Valuation and Investing New York City, New York, April 24, 2018 — Assess+RE (www.assessre.com), a leading cloud-based provider of financial underwriting and analysis software for commercial real estate (CRE), today announced it has successfully closed its seed funding round, led by Ranieri Strategies LLC. Ranieri Strategies was founded by Lewis S. Ranieri, an industry pionee…

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  • My Five Takeaways From CREtech Boston

    CRETech

    HOLY SHIT! Boston was extraordinary. One of the best events I’ve ever attended. And I’m not just saying that because it was OUR event. Because it really wasn’t just our event. It felt like the city’s event! Over 350 people in attendance. All top top professionals from development, brokerage, tech and investment sectors. People from Canada, SF, Chicago, NYC, Miami and on and on. All on hand to talk tech in one of the coolest spaces we’ve held an event at 100 Federal St. Here are my t…

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  • A Former Top Wall Street Regulator Turns to the Blockchain

    NY TImes

    SAN FRANCISCO — Gary Gensler was one of the top financial regulators in the Obama administration, the finance chief for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and, before both of those jobs, a partner at Goldman Sachs. Now, like many other big names from business and government, he is plunging into the world of the blockchain, the data-tracking technology introduced by Bitcoin. Mr. Gensler, 60, has recently gone to work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he will writ…

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  • Random Thoughts And Observations From DiscoverCREtech Boston. It Was WICKED SMAHT!

    Duke Long

    Well, how many years has it been? Five I think since the very first one in SF. After all this time they may have just had the best one ever in Boston. Of course, what would a CRE//Tech//Inter/Tech//Discover// thing be without my own unique take on the events and people involved? I’ve said more than once and I will say it again “If I’m not there did it really happen?” The answer? NO, probably not! Let’s get started. View image on Twitter Kateri Osborne@Kateri_O …

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  • 4 ways automation is poised to change the CRE game in 2018 and beyond

    Apto

    Getting a deal done in commercial real estate is a long and often complex process. Fortunately, automation is starting to improve communication and reduce friction for managing various elements of the deal. Let’s take a look at four ways automation is helping change the commercial real estate game in 2018 and beyond. Property Management These days, the first place most prospects will go to find a property is online. Many brokerages are now managing all of their property listings online usin…

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