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  • London Office Space Goes Green, Helping Developers Get in the Black

    Wall Street Journal

    Londoners are returning to the office again, and a new wave of green buildings is enabling landlords to charge their tenants a rent premium. To lure back employees, companies are opting for state-of-the-art buildings featuring wellness and leisure facilities with low- or zero-carbon emissions, which younger workers in particular consider vital. Many major U.K. firms also have their own environmental targets to meet.

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  • Zillow Says It Can’t Buy Any More Homes This Year

    Wall Street Journal

    Real-estate company Zillow Group Inc. ZG 0.84% will stop buying and flipping new houses for the remainder of this year, the company said Monday. The online home-listing platform, which got into the business of buying, refurbishing and quickly selling homes more than three years ago, said it would instead focus on closing existing purchase contracts and selling the homes it has on hand….

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  • ESG Proptech Trends For A Sustainable Future In Real Estate

    Forbes

    One side effect of the Covid-19 pandemic was that it forced us, as a global community, to once and for all come to terms with the fact that we are inextricably interconnected on a massive scale. Local actions can have global adverse reactions, tail risks are not as remote as we think, and the world we live in is much more fragile than we thought. The climate crisis that had temporarily taken second place during lockdown is once again front and center on the private and public agenda, as we exper…

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  • Smart city innovation district to bring 9,000 jobs to Ontario

    Smart Cities World

    District is within Lakeview Village in the city of Mississauga, a 177-acre mixed-use waterfront community, and aims to become the largest hub for technology, innovation and research in Canada.

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  • Future-Proofing Your Workforce, Workplace and Portfolio, Part 1

    CREtech

    Tony Josipovic of JLL discusses the company’s ‘Future of Work’ model and how it relates to the workforce.

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  • Industrious Takes Over Downtown Atlanta WeWork Location

    Bisnow

    One coworking giant is taking over some of the Downtown Atlanta space vacated by another. Industrious has taken over the operations of 20K SF of WeWork’s former footprint at 101 Marietta St., formerly Centennial Tower, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reported. WeWork was part of a contraction of coworking operators in Atlanta last year when it shuttered its 80K SF location at the 36-story, 670K SF tower….

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  • The 2021 Urban Tech report

    2150

    The battle for climate change will be won or lost depending on how well we innovate within our cities and urban environments. Today, cities consume 2/3 of the world’s energy and produce more than 70% of GHG emissions. Urbanization continues to grow and by 2050 it is expected that 70% of us will live in cities.

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  • London’s First Chief Digital Officer, Theo Blackwell, To Deliver Opening Keynote at CREtech London

    CREtech

    New York (September 21, 2021) CREtech, the world’s leading community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, has announced Theo Blackwell, Chief Digital Officer, Office of the Mayor of London, will deliver the opening Keynote Address at CREtech London this October 27-28. Formerly known as FUTURE PropTech until acquired by CREtech in 2019, CREtech London is Europe’s most important PropTech networking event. Appointed in 2017 as London’s first Chief Digit…

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  • Walmart, With Eyes on Amazon, Tries to Build a Fintech Startup

    Wall Street Journal

    Walmart Inc. WMT 2.12% is building a new weapon in its war with Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -0.08% : a fintech startup. The retail giant is helping launch a new company, helmed by two former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS -0.37% executives, that aims to provide financial services for its millions of customers and workers. The firm is a joint venture with Ribbit Capital, LEAP 0.30% known for investing in Robinhood Markets Inc. HOOD 2.58% and other digital financial businesses….

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  • Hines Names Daniel Chang as European Head of ESG

    Hines

    Hines, the international real estate firm, has appointed Daniel Chang as Head of Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) for Europe. Daniel’s appointment sees the firm strengthen its longstanding commitment to ESG, further supporting its holistic ESG approach globally, and will ensure new initiatives focused on addressing carbon emissions and social equity across the built environment are embedded across Europe and for the benefit of its clients.

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