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  • ARDEN GROUP APPOINTS POONAM SHARMA MATHIS AS VENTURE PARTNER AND BOARD MEMBER

    Arden Group

    Arden Group (“Arden”), a fully integrated real estate company, today announced the appointment of Poonam Sharma Mathis as Board Member and Venture Partner. She will lead Arden’s venture capital initiative and investment efforts, which will focus on opportunities to invest in startups enhancing efficiency in the operations of real estate. “Poonam brings Arden a uniquely blended perspective on innovation in real estate, through a combination of time on the principal real estate investment and d…

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  • Office workers in major cities reach pandemic-best return rates

    The Real Deal

    The pandemic is far from over, but employees are slowly beginning to head back into their workplaces in a positive sign for the national office market. An average of 36 percent of the workforce in those cities were back in the office during the week of Oct. 4-8, according to data from Kastle Systems reported by the Wall Street Journal.

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  • Creating New Pathways in Tenant Communication Trailer

    CREtech

    Ross Rudd, Director of Technology and Innovation at Bridge Investment Group lays out how he’s leveraging technology to differentiate Bridge Investment Group properties, and the specific areas he sees opportunities in the multi-family and senior housing verticals. Start your free 30-day trial to get full access videos like this.

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  • How technology can hold bad landlords and developers accountable

    The Real Deal

    Venture capital is flowing into proptech, providing developers and property owners with a seemingly endless stream of new solutions to increase the efficiency of everything from collecting rent payments to coordinating projects.

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  • WeWork Done Cutting Locations, Projects $1.5B Loss In 2021

    Bisnow

    WeWork has been systematically culling its portfolio for the better part of a year, exiting and adjusting leases around the world, but the company said that process is now mostly finished.

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  • What’s on at CREtech London

    Placetech

    Europe’s most important proptech networking conference, CREtech London, is back on 27-28 October at Magazine London.

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  • This $48B Real Estate Giant Wants To Punish Itself If It Misses Green Targets

    Bisnow

    Canadian pension fund investor Ivanhoé Cambridge has linked $6.8B (£5B) of its corporate debt to ESG performance, meaning its financing costs will go up if it misses sustainability targets. The company, which owns 1,100 buildings across the world valued at about $48B (£35B), said it had reached a deal with 11 banks that provide its corporate term loans — debt not linked to individual buildings, but to the company as a whole. That means if sustainability performance goes up, it will pay less i…

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  • Next Act for Apple Veteran Ron Johnson Is Taking Home-Delivery Startup Public

    Wall Street Journal

    Ten years after leaving his role as Apple Inc.’s top salesman and eight years after an inglorious tenure as chief executive of J.C. Penney, Ron Johnson wants to remake the retail world again. Mr. Johnson, 63 years old, has been running a company called Enjoy Technology Inc. that aims to address an emerging problem for high-end electronics makers and luxury brands. Many of those companies pay close attention to customer experiences, only to have the final product, if delivered, arrive in a car…

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  • Climate change investment is ‘particularly relevant for the real estate industry,’ Fifth Wall founder says

    Yahoo Finance

    One sector that must be at the forefront of decarbonizing the economy is real estate, given its outsized impact on carbon emissions, one expert said. Roughly $50 trillion is needed through 2050 to wean the U.S. economy off carbon emissions.

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  • City approves mass timber, basement apartment rules

    The Real Deal

    The future of New York’s skyline is … timber? Building with cross-laminated timber, a type of engineered wood consisting of glued-together panels of lumber, will soon be permitted in the five boroughs. The City Council on Thursday approved extensive changes to the building code, which include allowing the special timber on projects up to 85 feet tall, or six to seven stories. While some buildings in the city have already used the material, they required extensive, separate approvals.

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