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TechCrunch
Digital mortgage lender Better.com, which announced in May that it was going public via a SPAC, is getting a cash infusion from its backers sooner than expected. Blank-check company Aurora Acquisition Corp. and SoftBank have decided to amend the terms of their financing agreement to provide Better with half of the $1.5 billion they committed immediately instead of waiting till the deal closes….
New York Post
The city’s office market is wearing a smaller shoe size due to the pandemic — but the footprint shrank by much less than was feared.
JLL
Roofs are increasingly becoming green spaces as part of a drive towards cleaner cities
Wall Street Journal
The latest hot real-estate market isn’t on the scenic coasts or in balmy Sunbelt cities. It’s in the metaverse, where gamers are flocking and digital property sales are setting new records.
Wall Street Journal
Growth investor Sapphire Ventures has rounded up $2 billion to back promising technology companies, as money continues to flow into the sector. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based firm, which backs digital businesses such as recruiting systems and services provider Gem Software Inc., has closed its latest pair of funds less than a year after raising $1.7 billion for vehicles primarily focused on enterprise software businesses.
GlobeSt
Commercial real estate is seeing the benefits of including tech into many processes, but there’s one place that it has some catching up to do: listings. While many owners now post their available space over the internet, according to Turner Levison, senior account executive with Yardi, the process is often fragmented, requires duplicative data entry and potentially misses out on the true efficiency and bottom line benefits of online listings. “Owners can create a central repository for proper…
CREtech
Jeremy Neuer of CBRE discusses key mistakes technology companies are making, and how the market is driving innovation and new technology at an unprecedented pace.
GlobeSt
Technology has been upending the way various sectors do business. While some adaptation can be attributed to the pandemic, most of the changes were underway before COVID-19 made it necessary. Net lease leads the discussion in the commercial real estate sector. That’s according to Camille Renshaw, CEO & co-founder at B+E who, along with president and co-founder Scott Scurich, sought to create a net lease brokerage firm that blends the strengths of both real estate and technology sectors….
BMO
We believe the nascent PropTech industry presents significant opportunities for emerging companies integrating technology within various facets of real estate, as PropTech will soon be embedded throughout all facets of the industry. REITs that partner with and invest in these platforms stand to benefit. The property industry has notoriously been slow to embrace technology – only 10% of global real estate CEOs are concerned about the impact of technology on their industry, vs. 38% in all …
CRETI
Technology and innovation has become table stakes at nearly every real estate conference and event. Since 2010, the global proptech industry has continued to grow. Along the way, the need for dedicated and curated proptech events. These event organizers, content creators, and promoters have become the de facto “educators” in organized real estate, curating content and education needed for the greater real estate industry. In Q4 2021, the Center for Real Estate Technology (CRETI), wanted to be…
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