Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
Tenant Experience Network
This episode of TEN features Jon Love, CEO of KingSett Capital, a leader in the commercial real estate industry, who took time out from his vacation with his family to talk with us today. In this episode, we will learn about Jon’s journey to his current position at KingSett Capital, with over $13B in assets under management.
Wall Street Journal
A handful of startups raised venture capital funding—and eyebrows from curious onlookers—as their semiautonomous, cooler-sized robots rolled onto college campuses and communities in recent years. University campuses started out as prime locations to test this technology. But as the coronavirus pandemic has shuttered campuses and left many in limbo about reopening this fall, some robotics startups have accelerated efforts to expand in cities and neighborhoods as demand surges for delivery service…
Savills
New York (July 27, 2020) – Knowledge Cubed, the global real estate data and analytics platform powered by Savills and designed for corporate occupiers, announced a new partnership with CompStak today. CompStak is the world’s leading provider of crowdsourced commercial real estate transaction pricing data. Knowledge Cubed plans to offer Savills clients and advisors access to CompStak data through a suite of apps designed to analyze commercial office market pricing. “Our clients are looking …
The Real Deal
“It was horrible,” said Jarred Kessler, CEO of EasyKnock, who came down with Covid-19 while raising a $20 million Series B this spring. Summoning all of his strength and conviction, Kessler said he pressed on with negotiations and investors’ due diligence in late March without letting on that he was sick. The round closed in June. “Now I can look back and say, ‘From my bedroom, with Covid, I was able to raise $20 million,’” he said. “If I can do that, I feel like I can do most things.” …
GlobeSt
Many companies are debating when and how to reopen, and when that happens, what will it look like? One service, Nomad Go’s HealthySpaces, is an AI-based solution that accelerates the safe and trusted reopening of any physical environment including office, hospitality and food service, retail, and education.
TechCrunch
One little-known home and retail automation startup might seem like an unlikely candidate to help combat the ongoing pandemic. But its founder says its technology can do just that, even if it wasn’t the company’s original plan.
Reuters
Corporate America is downsizing its real estate footprint as companies allow more employees to work from home, a growing threat to the bottom line of owners of traditional office buildings and a sign that companies are looking for ways to cut costs as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Venture Beat
Two years ago, MIT launched the Task Force on the Work of the Future, an “institute-wide” effort to study the evolution of jobs during what the college characterizes as an “age of innovation.” The faculty and student research team of more than 20 members, as well as an external advisory board, published its latest brief today, focusing on the development of autonomous vehicles. It suggests fully driverless systems will take at least a decade to deploy over large areas and that expansion will hap…
Wall Street Journal
New investments from Alphabet Inc.’s Google and from Apple Inc. offer the first detailed look at how the big technology companies are following through on their pledges to help ease the West Coast’s shortage of affordable housing. Major tech corporations have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the past year to increase the supply of affordable housing in their backyards, after years of criticism that the booming tech sector was partly to blame for housing shortages in Silicon Valley and…
JLL
Real estate around the world continues to evolve. As that happens, a spectrum of flexible space options has taken shape, ranging from on-demand workspaces and coworking memberships to short-term, flexible spaces and traditional space consumed flexibly. Businesses of all sizes need a variety of space options across this spectrum and will choose the right fit for each scenario throughout their portfolio. The need for an agile portfolio with a spectrum of flexible options has only increased due to …
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