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  • Facebook drops $35M on first urban office in San Francisco

    The Real Deal – New York

    Up to 3,000 Facebook employees are to be working in the heart of San Francisco by the end of the year. The tech giant inked a $35 million lease for 436,000 square feet of office space because busing employees about two hours through infamously bad traffic to company headquarters in Menlo Park was becoming unwieldy. Surprise, surprise. The deal is the biggest office lease signed in San Francisco in three years, according to Business Insider. The South of Market tower, known by its address, 181 Fr…

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  • Facebook nabs first urban office in downtown San Francisco

    The Real Deal – New York

    Up to 3,000 Facebook employees are to be working in the heart of San Francisco by the end of the year. The tech giant inked a $35 million lease for 436,000 square feet of office space because busing employees about two hours through infamously bad traffic to company headquarters in Menlo Park was becoming unwieldy. Surprise, surprise. The deal is the biggest office lease signed in San Francisco in three years, according to Business Insider. The South of Market tower, known by its address, 181 Fr…

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  • Keystone poised to buy AT&T tower that vexed current owner

    Indianapolis Business Journal – Latest News

    Local developer Keystone Group is nearing a deal to buy the 20-story AT&T building just north of Monument Circle and is considering a range of possibilities for the half-million-square-foot property, including condominiums or apartments, real estate brokers said. The building is currently used for offices but is mostly vacant—a problem that stems partly from its lack of on-site parking, an obstacle Keystone would have to overcome with its redevelopment plans, the brokers said. A residential …

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  • Prospecting Tips to Kill it in Commercial Real Estate

    Digsy AI Blog

    Everyone secretly wishes that they were a sales grandmaster. Who wouldn’t want to have the silver-tongued gift of persuasion? What most people don’t realize is that, behind all of the closed deals and sales trophies are hours and hours of prospecting. Prospecting is the foundation upon which a successful sales campaign stands, and is the most important aspect of your commercial real estate business. With this understanding, let’s examine these prospecting tips and why it's important to your…

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  • A VC and former tech CEO is selling his enormous $30 million Utah ranch — take a look inside

    Business Insider – Finance

    Venture capitalist Vinny Smith, founder of Toba Capital, has placed his riverfront estate in Oakley, Utah, on the market for $30 million. Smith is also the former CEO of Quest Software, which was acquired by Dell for $2.4 billion in 2012.  In addition to the main 16,800-square-foot home on the banks of the Weber River, the property called Riverbend Ranch comes with a helicopter pad, wine cellar, and movie room. "There is so much to do on-property that it feels like your own private oasis,&q…

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  • How to make REBNY’s listing syndication service work for you

    Real Estate Weekly

    Last week, The New York Times announced they will provide readers with residential real estate listings from the Real Estate Board of New York’s (REBNY) Residential Listing Service (RLS) through Syndication. The deal was widely reported as a move that makes sense for the Times, for REBNY members, and for consumers alike. This news comes on the heels of similar recent agreements with Realtor.com, Home.com and other sites that will provide RLS data to a growing network of public real estate listin…

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  • CRE Tech Startup Falkon Sets Sights High With New Off-Market Listings Platform

    The Commercial Observer – Commercial Real Estate

    Having launched last year as a database of on-market commercial property listings across New York City, Falkon officially announced its new off-market listings platform this week—a tool that the platform’s founder, Ashkán Zandieh, hopes will bring greater efficiency and transparency to the city’s property investment sales market. The startup has thus far relied on on-market listings to serve as what Zandieh described as “the Streeteasy of commercial real estate investment sales,” (referring to t…

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  • Walmart partners with smart lock maker August to test in-home delivery of packages and groceries

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    Walmart announced today it will begin testing a new service that will allow customers with August smart home devices, like the August doorbell and security cameras, to have their packages delivered inside their home instead of left on the doorstep. This test will also include online grocery orders, which won’t just be placed inside the house like the packages, but will be put away in the fridge and freezer, when appropriate. The retailer says it will soon start this test in the Silicon Valley ar…

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  • This smart electric bike made my commute effortless

    Curbed – National News

    Welcome to Curbed’s first-ever Transportation Week! It's time for a weeklong romp through all things related to transportation in the U.S. We'll be focusing on the topics most pressing to cities: everything from ways to improve public transportation in cities to ranking the best neighborhoods across the country for living a car-free life, plus a friendly competition between NYC, San Francisco, and Los Angeles to determine which city has the best public transit in the U.S. All aboard! T…

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  • PropTech investor landscape – the firms, groups and people you should know

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