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Dallas Business Journal – Commercial Real Estate News
Amazon's need to attract the tech workers — especially software and web developers — will drive the search for its much vaunted second headquarters.
National Association of REIT
Data center and infrastructure REITs offer two ways for investors to make technology-focused plays on the real estate market, according to Burl East, manager of the Altegris/AACA Opportunistic Real Estate Fund.
TechCrunch – All Stories
Co-working startup Mindspace recently raised $20 million as it gears up to launch its first two locations in the U.S. While Mindspace is looking to go big or go home in the U.S., it’s starting off slow with its first two locations in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Mindspace started in Tel Aviv about four years ago and has since expanded to Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom. Mindspace, in addition to physical office space, offers fully furnished spaces, internet, cleaning services, a ful…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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