Building Owners Required to Post Energy Grades
The Real Deal
At the end of this month, the owners of tens of thousands of buildings in New York City will be required to post a letter grade based on their properties’ energy efficiency.
Latest Trends and Insights in Real Estate Technology
Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
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Amazon sees broad audience for its palm recognition tech
AP News
SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon has introduced new palm recognition technology in a pair of Seattle stores and sees a broader potential audience in stadiums, offices and other gated or secured locations. Customers at the stores near Amazon’s campus in Washington can flash a palm for entry into secured areas and buy goods.
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Ex-Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff jumps back into real estate, launches startup with former colleagues to help people buy second homes
GeekWire
Former Zillow Group CEO Spencer Rascoff and dotloop founder Austin Allison are teaming up on a new startup called Pacaso that aims to make it easier for more people to own a vacation home.
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WATCH NOW: Property Inspects’s FULL Tech Demo from the Reimagining Real Estate Sustainability Summit
Property Inspect
Property Inspect is a unique cloud and mobile App for scheduling, producing and managing professional inspection reports. Relied on by thousands of property managers, service providers and inspection businesses to increase efficiency, reduce risk, save money, increase response times, quickly handle disputes and stay compliant.
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Smart cities predicted to create growth opportunities worth $2.46 trillion by 2025
Smart Cities World
Smart cities are highlighted as one of nine key trends capable of generating growth opportunities from Covid-19, according to a study by Frost & Sullivan. Its analysis predicts that the sector could generate significant business opportunities with a market value of $2.46 trillion by 2025. Among the others listed are connected living, connected work, human augmentation and digital health.
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Climate Change: Hope for Carbon Goals Set by China, California, EU
Bloomberg
After a week of far-reaching climate promises measured over decades, four of the world’s six largest economies have now proposed ending dates for their carbon emissions.
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Black, Female and Head of a Public Real-Estate Company. Meet the Only Person to Fit That Description.
Wall Street Journal
Leslie D. Hale made history as the first African-American woman to lead a public real-estate investment trust. Today, a little more than two years later, this industry club of female Black chief executives still has just one member.
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Google’s Sundar Pichai says future of office is employee ‘on-sites’
Business Insider
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said last week that the company was making changes to its physical spaces to better support employees in a future Pichai said would include “hybrid models” of work.
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Part I, Fly on the Wall Ep. 29: Andy Cohen, Gensler + Brendan Wallace, Fifth Wall
Fifth Wall
Episode 29 of Fly on the Wall kicks off a three-part series with Andy Cohen, Co-CEO of the innovative, leading design firm Gensler. In Part I of the series, Brendan and Andy discuss current pandemic-influenced sociological shifts and how they will impact both the layout of our cities and the design of our buildings. Andy also explores how the pandemic will affect the way we work – from the flexible layout of our office buildings to the notion of the five day work week – and why company c…
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Facebook’s Big Augmented Reality Play Could Spark New Wave Of Proptech
Bisnow
Technologies that people take for granted today, such as smartphones or Google Maps, have fundamentally changed the way the real estate industry does business. The next technology that could transform the industry, multiple proptech experts say, is augmented reality glasses.
