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  • Settlement talks between CoStar and Xceligent break down

    The Real Deal – New York

    Last week it looked like CoStar and Xceligent’s high-stakes legal battle was heading for a settlement. But now talks have broken down. CoStar wanted Xceligent to delete material on its database as part of a settlement deal, the Wall Street Journal reported without citing details. Xceligent balked, meaning the two sides are bound to head back to court. CoStar sued Xceligent last December for alleged copyright infringement, claiming the rival commercial property database stole its images. Xceligen…

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  • Podcast #164 Duke Long. What Are The Top Four CRM Companies in #CRE? Listen And Find Out!

    Duke Long Blog

    What is one of if not the most effective and underutilized tools for commercial real estate today? A spectacular CRM solution. What are the four you must try? Listen to find out and I tell you why! The Evolution of REX. Prototypes, Seed Rounds, and Beta. It has been at best an interesting year in commercial real estate, to say the least not to mention the world in general. At the beginning of the year, I committed to writing two articles a month for the website cre.tech.com. (Since rebranded to….

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  • Highlights from Our Conversation with Michael Beckerman

    Building Engines Blog – Building Beat

    Highlights from Our Conversation with Michael Beckerman Published by Scott Sidman on December 12, 2017 Tweet Share ShareShares 0Michael Beckerman is the founder of CRE industry destination The News Funnel and CEO of the largest commercial real estate tech events in the industry CRE Tech. He recently sat down with Building Engines' Head of Research, Phil Mobley, to discuss the findings of our CRE operations industry benchmarking research. Highlights of the full discussion are below. “…when I…

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  • Compass gains $450 million in real estate tech investment

    Chicago Agent Magazine

    Real estate tech company Compass announced it received a $450 million investment from Japanese company SoftBank Vision Fund on Dec. 7. This investment stands as the largest real estate technology investment in U.S. history and brings the total capital raised by Compass to $775 million. “Real estate is a huge asset class, but the sector has been relatively untouched by technology and remains inefficient and fragmented,” said Justin Wilson, a senior investment professional at the SoftBank Vision F…

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  • Can progressive web apps solve the app vs. browser dilemma?

    Retail Dive

    The line-blurring solution offers several advantages for shoppers and retailers, but challenges exist that could be a deal breaker for some. Author By Robert Williams • Published Dec. 12, 2017 Share it post share tweet First Published on Mobile app or mobile web? While the debate has been discussed for years, there’s an emerging solution that blurs the line between to two solutions by bringing many of the advantages of native mobile apps to the mobile browser.  Although both are used on smartpho…

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  • Embracing the Tech Catalyst in Real Estate

    CRETECH

    Guest Post by Lucas Signor, Solutions Engineer, SitehandsCommercial and corporate real estate executives face new opportunities and new challenges in today’s marketplace. Agile and savvy real estate executives go from just seeing technology as a necessary expense and additional challenge to embracing it as an opportunity. Successful real estate executives tackle the cost per square footage equation from the perspective of cost containment and business value/productivity enhancement.Technology as…

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  • MY FIVE TAKEAWAYS FROM CRE // TECH NYC…

    Michael Beckerman

    WOW! I am still catching my breath from one of the most extraordinary days in my long, long career. Truly breathtaking. Almost 700 people! No bullshit, no hype. People came from all over the country. From Europe and Asia. We had the CTO`s of the five largest brokerage firms on one stage. The leading VC`s all on one panel. NYC`s largest and most active landlords talking tech. CRE // Tech New York exceeded all of my own expectations. Feedback was incredibly positive. And as I said in my opening…

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  • Why migration has stalled in American cities with the most opportunity

    Las Vegas Sun Headlines

    Why migration has stalled in American cities with the most opportunity Steve Marcus A carpenter works on a new home at a residential construction site in the west side of the valley April 5, 2013. Las Vegas is a lower-wage metro area that can attract people not by its economic prowess but by its supply of lower-cost housing. By Emily Badger, New York Times News Service Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017 | 2 a.m. Chicago in 1850 was a muddy frontier town of barely 30,000 people. Within two decades, it was 10…

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  • Tech the Halls Nabs 136K-SF Data Center

    Connect Commercial Real Estate

    > Tech the Halls Nabs 136K-SF Data Center December 12, 2017 SkyWalker Property Partners, operating under the entity Tech the Halls LLC, acquired a 136,000-square-foot, Tier IV-designed data facility in Irving, TX. The property at 6001 Campus Circle W. sold for an undisclosed amount. Ryan Crabtree with Coldwell Banker Commercial Advisors represented the buyer, while CBRE’s Steve Berger represented the seller, Boston-based Fidelity Real Estate Co. LLC. The facility in the mid-1980s expanded fro…

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  • Nextdoor reportedly closes $75M in funding

    Phoenix Association of Realtors

    Nextdoor, a social network specifically designed to connect neighbors and is serving 100,000 U.S. neighborhoods and counting, has reportedly raised $ 75 million in a recent funding round, according to an article published today by subscription tech news website The Information … Inman

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