Today’s Must-Have Amenity? A Little Green Space.
New York Times
The move toward incorporating more outdoor spaces in luxury buildings was underway before the pandemic struck. But life in lockdown has made it a necessity.
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Creating New Pathways in Tenant Communication, Part 1
CREtech
Ross Rudd, Director of Technology and Innovation at Bridge Investment Group reviews how he’s leaned into technology solutions to overcome the biggest challenge he’s faced over the last year, client and tenant communications.
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Funnel Taps PropTech Veteran Stephany Mesa as Chief of Staff to Invigorate Workplace and Special Projects as Company Scales for Growth
Businesswire
Funnel Leasing, the renter-centric leasing platform, today announced the hiring of Stephany Mesa, a proptech veteran and product specialist, as Chief of Staff. With her 11 years of experience in multifamily and real estate, Mesa will lead Funnel’s people ops, including staff and culture, a new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) group, the Women of Funnel Group, scaling the non-profit 501c(3) H.O.M.E. initiative and will drive strategic alignment within the leadership team to reflect Funnel’s …
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App Deal Highlights a Push to Lure Workers Back Into Offices
Wall Street Journal
Real-estate software and data firm VTS has agreed to acquire an app company that aims to simplify office life as more workers are heading back to their desks. VTS, whose primary business is providing online tools to landlords for managing leases and tenant data, said it is buying Toronto-based Lane Technologies Inc. The price is about $200 million, according to people familiar with the matter, making it one of the largest proptech acquisitions ever.
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Richard Croft, Executive Chairman, M7 Real Estate, Announced as Keynote Speaker at CREtech London
CREtech
New York (September 20, 2021) CREtech, the world’s leading community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, has announced Richard Croft, Executive Chairman, M7 Real Estate, a leading pan-European real estate investment management company, will deliver a keynote speech 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. M7 Real Est…
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HqO Acquires Leading European Tenant Experience Platform Office App
HqO
HqO, the end-to-end tenant experience platform for commercial real estate properties, today announces that it has acquired Office App, a leading European tenant and employee engagement platform. The new combined entity is valued at over half a billion dollars, making it one of the most significant proptech companies in the world. This valuation reflects the growing importance of workplace experience solutions in the commercial real estate market. The acquisition brings together solu…
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The smart city comes of age
Axios
Better sensors, more intelligent AI, and the coming wave of 5G wireless could finally fulfill the promise of the smart city. Why it matters: How we organize, run and power our cities will be increasingly important in the years ahead, as urbanization expands and the damaging effects of climate change compound. A smarter city can be a more sustainable and livable one, but connecting where we live carries privacy threats as well as the risks of more disruptive cyberattacks. By the number…
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Mary Hogan Preusse Joins Fifth Wall as Senior Advisor
PR Newswire
Today, Fifth Wall, the largest venture capital firm focused on technologies for the global real estate industry, announced that real estate industry veteran Mary Hogan Preusse has joined the firm as its first Senior Advisor focused on strengthening Fifth Wall’s relationships with its 70+ corporate real estate investors and with the broader real estate industry.
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Meet Me in My Office, in Men’s Underwear on 5
New York Times
For 10 years beginning in 1945, the architect George Nelson served as the design director at Herman Miller, the iconic furniture producer, where he came to believe that the modern office should resemble “a daytime living room.’’ The geography of the conventional white-collar workplace bred stress and distraction, the thinking went, and as a result, hindered creativity and collaboration. It would take decades and significant advances in technology for corporate ideology to catch up with Nelson’s …
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Inside Grosvenor’s ‘why wait’ net zero strategy
Placetech
Grosvenor Britain & Ireland plans to reach net zero carbon by 2025 – five years ahead of its original target – though it will rely on immediate offsetting to do so, the company has announced. The developer said it is taking a “why wait” stance on offsets instead of waiting until 2030 to mitigate its emissions. GBI argued that doing so would have a positive long-term effect as long as it also met its reduction targets.
