Why are London landlords getting AirRated?
Placetech
As occupiers demand healthier spaces, Derwent London’s White Collar Factory has become the latest prime office building to sign up to an indoor air quality rating scheme.
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Most Green Buildings — So Far — Aren’t Even Close to Being Carbon-Neutral
Curbed
Behold the building of the future: mossy stones lying strewn around a hill outside the English city of Windsor, carved, shaped, and incised in the fashions of centuries past. These chunks of 18th-century wall and Victorian cornice have lain in the woods for nearly 100 years, remnants of a British country home dismembered, like so many others, so there’d be nothing left to pay taxes on. Now Matthew Barnett Howland, an architect at the Eton-based firm CSK, and the business-communications entrepren…
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Adding solar to California apartments could get easier — if regulators go along
Canary Media
The vast majority of California’s rooftop solar has been installed on single-family, owner-occupied homes. But Dover Janis, CEO of San Diego, California–based startup Ivy Energy, sees apartment buildings as the state’s rooftop-solar future — if the right combination of technology, policy and business models can align to make it happen. The prospects depend in part on how California utility regulators decide to reform the state’s net-metering system for rooftop solar….
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Construction tech startup Hubble raises S$11.35m in Series B funding
Business Times
Construction management platform Hubble has raised S$11.35 million in Series B funding, with new investors including Taronga Ventures, Kajima Ventures, the venture arm of Japan’s Kajima Corp, and Seeds Capital, the investment arm of Enterprise Singapore.
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Clikalia clicks on $86M to expand its iBuyer marketplace across Europe and Latin America
TechCrunch
Companies like Opendoor opened the door to a new way of buying and selling properties by inserting a strong middle player who could buy houses or apartments and redevelop them at scale, and then sell them to new homeowners at a profit. Now Clikalia, another player in the so-called iBuyer space, has raised €75 million ($86 million) to take that model to markets in Europe and Latin America.
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EasyKnock Completes $57 Million Series C Funding Round to Help More Homeowners Achieve Their Financial Goals
PR Newswire
EasyKnock, the leading residential sale-leaseback platform, today announced a $57.2 million funding round from a large group of new and existing investors with participation from Blumberg Capital, Gaingels, Moderne Ventures, QED Investors, and Viola FinTech. Some notable individual investors also contributed to the round including Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff’s 75 & Sunny Ventures.
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OMERS Ventures, Turner Construction team up to build the construction tech startup of their dreams
TechCrunch
OMERS Ventures’ Principal Michelle Killoran has long been looking for a construction tech startup to invest in. The space is intriguing to her, but so far, she has not come across a company whose model has been compelling enough to convince her to pull out her checkbook.
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Flex office’s rapid rise
Axios
Here’s the big winner that’s emerging in the post-pandemic working world: co-working space companies, Erica Pandey writes. By the numbers: 24% of companies surveyed in a new CBRE report say they expect more than a quarter of their office space to be flex within the next two years.
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The Off-Site Is the New Return to the Office
Wall Street Journal
Remember the off-site meeting? For some companies, those traditional company gatherings at hotels, spas and other exotic locations are pointing the way to a new, innovative model for getting employees back to working in person.
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Silverstein Introduces Employee Badge In Apple Wallet For Its WTC Employees and Tenants
Silverstein Properties
Silverstein Properties, a leading real estate development, investment and management firm, today introduced contactless access to its 7 World Trade Center office building through employee badge in Apple Wallet. Silverstein’s employee badges in Apple Wallet allow users to easily access its office buildings, tenant floors, fitness centers and amenity spaces using their iPhone or Apple Watch. Starting at 7 World Trade Center, the company plans to offer the service to its 50,000 office customers …
