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  • It’s Not Just a Strategy, it’s a Mindset: Oxford Properties 4.0

    Glenn Felson

    The avalanche of new PropTech solutions hitting the market is without a doubt a great thing for the real estate industry, but it requires a complete overhaul of how real estate owners and managers think about and run their businesses.  In the past, property/asset managers made decisions at the local asset level for most technologies that they purchased to operate their building.  While that led to quick and nimble decision making, it created a mishmash of disparate systems in each building that …

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  • Work Flexibility, Popular With Employees, Is Hardly a Holy Grail

    The Wall Street Journal

    Many of today’s workers have landed the upper hand when it comes to where and when they work. But no one should get too comfortable. As demand roars back across the U.S. economy and workers are flush with pandemic savings, the little guy is suddenly wielding more power. Zillow, for example, has said it is allowing most employees to permanently work remotely, betting such a policy will yield the best talent….

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  • Time-saving tech is coming to two new U.S. border crossings

    Axios

    Two giant infrastructure projects under construction in San Diego and Detroit aim to expedite the flow of people and goods throughout North America by using connected-vehicle technology.

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  • Startup charts a (long) path toward homeownership

    The Real Deal

    The latest startup to roll out of Kairos — the firm that offered $5 insurance premiums in place of security deposits — holds out the promise of homeownership for young renters.

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  • Altrio Partners with Real Capital Analytics to Enhance Screening and Underwriting

    PR Newswire

    TORONTO, June 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – Altrio has partnered with Real Capital Analytics (RCA) to provide seamless integration for their mutual clients. This integration provides real estate investors the capital markets insights they need to optimize investment decisions by embedding RCA’s transaction data in Origin, Altrio’s leading edge deal management platform.

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  • ‘There Are Track Records Now’: More CRE Firms Pour Investments Into Maturing Proptech Sector

    Bisnow

    The proptech sector has taken a major leap forward over the past year, with many startups successfully scaling up and providing windfalls for their investors, and the industry it serves has taken notice.

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  • Proptech hits puberty: Insights from Camber Creek’s Casey Berman

    The Real Deal

    Total addressable market, or TAM, is a metric investors use to figure out whether a sector is worth their trouble. With a tiny TAM, even a home-run investment in a startup may not generate the return investors crave. Target a big TAM, however, and things get a lot more interesting.

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  • BMO Proptech Report

    BMO Capital Markets

    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 …

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  • Google Closes London Startup Office Hub Saying It Doesn’t Need A Building To Run It

    Bisnow

    Google said Monday it will close a seven-storey hub to help tech startupsit leases in east London, because it does not need a physical building to provide the support that fast-growing companies require. Google For Startups was a 25K SF space at 4-5 Bonhill Street near Old Street in east London, in the heart of the area dubbed Tech City and Silicon Roundabout by the UK government a decade ago because of the high concentration of tech startups….

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  • The “hub and spoke” future of the office

    Axios

    As more companies lean towards a hybrid setup, many are cutting back their headquarters and putting smaller offices close to where workers are.

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