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  • Industrious Expands SoCal Presence With Two New Locations

    The Commercial Observer – Commercial Real Estate

    Fresh off of an $80 million funding round, flexible workspace provider Industrious has continued to grow its footprint nationally—and the Southern California market is no exception. Industrious has inked leases for two new locations, spanning a combined 64,000 square feet, in the Century City district of Los Angeles and the Orange County city of Irvine, according to The Real Deal. The shared office provider signed a lease for 40,000 square feet across two floors at 1925 Century Park East in Cent…

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  • MIPIM 2018: Brexit, PropTech and Coworking the Hot Topics

    Hightower Blog

    As they do every March, commercial real estate professionals and civic leaders from around the globe recently converged on Cannes, France, for the annual MIPIM conference that internationally examines the industry. During the event, the most prominent topics impacting the industry were discussed, and the grandest projects to be seen in select cities and countries were on display in the exhibit hall of the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès convention center.Read on for some of the pressing issu…

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  • Lawyer bots take the hassle out of fighting parking tickets and property taxes — and could cost local governments real revenue

    Recode

    After finding a parking ticket lashed to his windshield, Seattle resident Dan Lear normally would have bitten the bullet and paid up, even though he felt misled by street signage. Instead, Lear decided to try his luck with DoNotPay, a free bot service that streamlines the process of contesting parking tickets. The service helped Lear win a dismissal in 2016, leaving him a little bit richer and Seattle a little bit poorer. New technology-powered services like DoNotPay, WinIt and TurboAppeal are…

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  • Shared Office Provider Spaces Inks 31K-SF Deal for First Brooklyn Digs

    Commercial Observer

    Spaces, a flexible workspace provider and a subsidiary of IWG, signed a 30,716-square-foot lease on Monday at 41 Flatbush Avenue, which is also known as the Pioneer Building, in Downtown Brooklyn, Commercial Observer has learned. SEE ALSO: Blick Art Materials Among Retailers Opening Outposts in DoBro It will be Spaces’ first location in Kings County. The company’s 15-year lease covers the entire 26,908-square-foot second floor of the 10-story building between Livingston Street and Lafayette Av…

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  • Equiem, Australian CRE Tech Company Launches In NYC

    Globest

    NEW YORK CITY—The Australian commercial real estate firm Equiem is expanding in the US real estate market. The company uses technology to improve services in commercial spaces to help landlords create greater value in assets to attract and retain tenants and to increase revenue. Gabrielle McMillan, CEO of Equiem, who began with the company in Melbourne, Australia in 2011, is relocating to New York City to open the company’s US headquarters located at 450 Lexington Ave., along with a staff of co…

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  • In A First, A Blockchain Smart Contract Is Recorded On A Deed

    Globest

    WASHINGTON, DC–Quietly and with almost no fanfare, last month blockchain startup Propy scored a coup for the technology industry and the real estate space in one transaction: the first government sanctioned blockchain recorded real estate deal in the US. The transaction happened under a pilot program that launched at the start of this year between a county in Vermont and the San Francisco-based company, which is developing a blockchain-based registry for real estate sales.

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  • Commercial Real Estate Trends 2018

    REthink

    If you’re not excited about commercial real estate (CRE) in 2018, you may not be looking in the right places. There are at least 14 reasons this year will be a promising one for commercial real estate investors who can spot the right opportunities. Is CRE a Good Investment in 2018? In short, yes, but let’s take a closer look at why this is. Here are three reasons to believe it: 1. The Industry Is Following the Economy’s Direction: Up   First, there’s the fact that the industry…

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  • Singapore Shows Its Tech Chops In Real Estate To The World

    Realty NXT

    It is no news that Singapore lists among one of the most tech-savvy countries in the world. The World Economic Forum Global Information Technology Report ranked Singapore among the top-seven in terms of generating economic impact from investments in information and communication technologies in 2016. At a state level, Singapore is now gearing up for a future-ready real estate industry. In February 2018 the Singapore Government launched the Industry Transformation Map (ITM for sh…

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  • Green Buildings – India 2nd After US In Sustainable Real Estate Projects

    Realty NXT

    Although sustainable real estate is still in a nascent stage in the country, India is actually one of the leading counties when it comes to green buildings development. In fact, India ranks only second after the U.S. in terms of the number of green technology projects and built-up area. As of September 2017, more than 4,300 projects utilizing green technology, accounting for approximately 4.7 billion sq.ft. of built-up area, are registered in India as per data shared by IGBC. True, this is on…

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  • Technology Unites In Cities Of The Future

    Bisnow

    Holograms. Virtual reality. Free high-speed WiFi everywhere? Welcome to the future. Technology has been blamed for disconnecting people, but that will soon change, panelists said at Bisnow’s recent Building Cities of the Future: Seattle event at the Four Seasons Hotel Seattle. Bisnow/Shawna De La Rosa Skipstone President A-P Hurd moderates the panel on omnichannel environments for cities of the future. Talon Private Capital founding principal Bill Pollard discusses how virtual reality has improv…

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