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  • MIPIM Day One: Driverless Cars Are Far Off, But Here’s How To Prep

    Commercial Observer

    As self-driving cars slowly goes from fantasy to reality, real estate professionals eagerly crammed into a panel devoted to the subject on the first day of the Marché International des Professionnels de L’immobilier conference in Cannes, France. But panelists didn’t make bold predictions of massive changes needed for buildings and roads. In fact, the experts were stumped about what would exactly happen as an effect of driverless cars—and when they would take over the streets. “Th…

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  • Fifth Wall Backs Foxtrot to Capitalize on Omnichannel as the Future of Retail

    Medium

    The Next Generation Corner Store Gains Access to Strategic Landlords Seismic shifts in the retail industry have necessitated a new era of retail anchored in seamless experiences following consumers from real-world brick-and-mortar shopping to e-commerce purchases. Among retail categories, the convenience store market is uniquely primed for disruption. The largest company in the $300 billion market owns less than 5% of share, and innovation has been nonexistent until now. Foxtrot is challenging …

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  • How Tech Can Hurt or Help a Company

    CRETECH

    *Spoiler alert* This blog isn’t about my normal theme of commercial real estate tech. In fact, it’s a rant. Not as intense, say as a Duke Long (disclaimer good friend and big fan) rant. But then again, I am a Buddhist and yes, even Buddhists get frustrated at times 🙂 So here is my story… I live in a small town in NJ. More horses and cows than people. And we have a FedEx drop off box I use all the time when working from home. Well, that FedEx box hasn’t been filled with supplies in m…

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  • Perks for workers latest draw for office tenants

    Arkansas Online – Business Headlines

    Tishman Speyer Properties has extended an invitation to workers at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan to find their Zo, welcoming them to an app-driven world of health, education and pampering– and fighting off rival landlords in a battle to woo corporate tenants by appealing to their employees. By next month, workers in eight of the 10 New York commercial properties Tishman manages, including the MetLife building, will be able to download the Zo app. It will let them book such amenities as a hair…

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  • 18 Best Commercial Real Estate Firms in 2018

    REthinkCRE Blog

    It’s a tough market out there for commercial real estate, with a glut of properties (and a buyer’s market) in some areas and the exact opposite in others. If you’re in the commercial real estate game, it’s important to get the lay of the land and know what firms dominate nationwide and in your area. Today, we’re going to take a look at some of the top commercial real estate companies around the country, state by state and region by region. This should give you a great overview of some of the mov…

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  • Here’s a look at Nestio’s growing niche in the rental market listings space

    The Real Deal

    From the March issue: While OLR and RealPlus catered to the sales market, listings platforms for the rental market pretty much languished until 2011. That’s when Caren Maio and Mike O’Toole launched Nestio to address what Maio described as a “gaping opportunity” to bring modern technology to property owners and brokers who were manually tracking and managing rental listings. “The incumbent was pen and paper, spreadsheets and people trying to utilize a database that wasn’t built for this segment…

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  • Ripple wants to invest in startups that will put its XRP cryptocurrency to work

    Techcrunch

    Payments company Ripple says it plans to invest in startups and technology companies to develop more uses for XRP, its cryptocurrency that is currently the third largest digital token behind bitcoin and Ethereum based on total market cap. The value of XRP shot up in December and January following a crypto market rally that saw bitcoin reach nearly $20,000 per coin. The collective value of XRP was worth more than $128 billion at peak before a market crash in January walked those prices back si…

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  • Lincoln Property Company, Mobile Doorman Expand Partnership To Roll Out Its Custom-Branded Apartment Apps Across Midwest Portfolio

    Cision

    Multifamily-giant Lincoln Property Company announced today that it will be partnering with Mobile Doorman, the industry-leading creator of custom-branded apartment apps for multifamily communities across the United States, to unveil a new series of its best-in-class apartment management apps across the entire Lincoln Midwest portfolio. Rolling-out throughout the remainder of Q1, today’s announcement is just the latest chapter in the two companies’ partnership. Lincoln currently utilizes Mobile …

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  • Office Of The Future: Amenities, Open And Private Space, But Maybe Not All The Tech Bells And Whistles

    Bisnow

    The office of the future is going to be a lot like it is predicted to be with the open space, amenities and connectivity that is going into new projects in Phoenix and elsewhere, the speakers at Bisnow’s Phoenix Office of the Future event said. But it will not be entirely as expected. Concerns about privacy and the cost of the fanciest tech mean that in some ways, the office of tomorrow will still be a lot like the office of today. Bisnow DLR Group Senior Interior Designer Shelby Guddeck, Hines …

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  • Freight-logistics tech startup doubles Manhattan footprint

    Crains New York – Everything Real Estate

    Founded in San Francisco in 2013, Flexport opened a New York office in August 2016. But since then, the freight-logistics tech startup has blown past its expectations for its Northeast business and has signed a lease for a new office that’s more than double the size of its current one. The company expects to move into its new, 23,000-square-foot location at 111 W. 19th St. in July. “We outpaced ourselves, which is a good problem to have,” said Kaitlyn Glancy, a senior vice president of sales and…

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