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  • App lets shoppers funnel cash to charities

    Indianapolis Business Journal – Real Estate & Retail

    Cooper For years, Pam Cooper fielded donation and sponsorship requests at her carpet cleaning business in Carmel. She donated gift certificates to silent auctions and sponsored her kid’s soccer team. “I did all of those things knowing I was just being a good community member,” Cooper said. “I was probably not going to get any business out of it.” At the same time, she helped her children fundraise for their schools by selling items from various catalogs. “Everybody who participates in that hates…

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  • Lyft and WeWork take the last space in two Seattle office buildings

    BizJournal – Commercial Real Estate

    The lease by Lyft shows the ride-sharing company plans to keep growing in Seattle, where it opened its first development office outside of San Francisco two years ago.

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  • SmartZip lays off around 50 employees, including two VPs

    Inman News – Features

    San Francisco Bay Area-based SmartZip, a predictive analytics marketing platform for real estate professionals founded in 2008, has reportedly laid off around 50 of its approximate 150 staff members this week including senior leaders Peter Grace, formerly executive vice president of sales, and Joan Dailey, formerly vice president of corporate marketing, according to sources close to the company. Grace and Dailey are no longer listed on the leadership team page of the company's website, as o…

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  • How to Find an Owner’s Property Portfolio

    Reonomy

    Reonomy helps service providers, investors, developers, brokers and lenders get an inside view of an owner’s portfolio. Here’s how to use a quick address search in Reonomy, and in turn discover the properties a person owns. Owner Portfolio helps find: What is this owner’s ideal location, property type, investment size, etc.? What has this owner purchased recently? What has he/she held onto the longest? For service providers in particular, what other buildings may he/she need services for? Is thi…

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  • How to Find Buyers for Commercial Properties

    Reonomy

    Reonomy is a great tool for sourcing potential buyers in a couple of ways. By comparable properties and ownership portfolio. You can find, understand, and correctly target potential commercial buyers as well as build your own mailer list. How to Find Buyers for Commercial Properties Reonomy

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  • Knotel Announces Partnership With Second Coworking Firm

    The Commercial Observer – Commercial Real Estate

    Startup office provider Knotel has teamed up with yet another coworking firm after agreeing to a “strategic partnership” with Galvanize that will see the two firms refer their office-using clientele to one another. Knotel, which provides short-term and rolling lease agreements to small-to-midsized tenants who effectively sublease office space from the company, said that it will send “smaller teams” that use or are looking to use its spaces to Galvanize, which runs eight “campuses” across the cou…

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  • Checking In on The Wilshire; Cleaning Up Buffalo Bayou Debris; Tech Lessons from Harvey

    Swamplot: Houston’s Real Estate Landscape

    Checking In on The Wilshire; Cleaning Up Buffalo Bayou Debris; Tech Lessons from Harvey by Meredith Deliso No Comments Tweet Median Houston Home Sales Price Up 7.6% to $233,900 Year-Over-Year in Third Quarter, Finds NAR [Houston Chronicle] Pelican Builders Says 11 Sales Have Already Closed in Almost-Complete 96-Unit Wilshire Condo Tower on Former Westcreek Apartments Site [Houston Chronicle] Self-Storage Company Life Storage Reports Multimillion-Dollar Damage from Hurricanes in Texas, Florida [H…

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  • NexLoop unveils water management system inspired by spiders, fungi, bees and plants

    Inhabitat – Phoenix

    In its quest to sustainably serve the needs of urban farmers, NexLoop found inspiration for its water management system in the natural world. Seeking to create a system that is self-sufficient and adaptable to local needs, the NexLoop team observed the ability of cribellate orb weaver spiders to craft webs that capture water from fog in the air. The team then incorporated this design into their system, called the AquaWeb, to passively capture water from the atmosphere. The biomimetically-designe…

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  • How to Use Instagram to Grow Your CRE Business

    Content Marketing by The News Funnel

    As a commercial real estate professional, you may have toyed with the idea of building a social media presence on popular platforms like Facebook and Twitter but overlooked the fast-growing world of Instagram. Or maybe you’ve already built an excellent social media strategy but never considered Instagram as a strategic addition to your marketing efforts. If you think about it, Instagram might be one of the best places for your CRE presence to be. After all, it’s largely focused on video and phot…

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  • WeWork will open a new SF HQ in the Salesforce Tower

    TechCrunch – Startups

    WeWork will open a new SF HQ in the Salesforce Tower Posted 1 hour ago by Megan Rose Dickey (@meganrosedickey) 0 SHARES Next Story Cisco Spark Assistant bringing voice commands to meeting hardware WeWork has money to blow, so the $20 billion startup is putting some of it toward a second headquarters — this time in San Francisco instead of New York, Recode reports. The plan is to locate the HQ in the new 61-floor Salesforce Tower, which is slated to open next year. WeWork will lease out three flo…

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