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  • MIT: For Landlords, Coworking And Traditional Office Leases Cost The Same

    BISNOW

    Coworking companies have expanded in recent years to become the leading office tenants in some of the world’s largest real estate markets like London and New York City. The providers were willing to enter into longer lease terms with a higher base rent when many companies were shedding space and wanting shorter commitments.  But 10 years of coworking lease data in six of the largest U.S. office markets show landlords view coworking tenants as viable substitutes for any traditional office tenant,…

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  • Openpath Chosen As Official Access Control and Technology Partner for Real Estate Powerhouse Lincoln Property Company

    OPENPATH

    LOS ANGELES, CA (Feb. 24, 2020): Openpath, a leader in modern mobile access control, is announcing a partnership with Lincoln Property Company (LPC), one of the largest diversified real estate service firms in the United States. Openpath has been selected as LPC’s technology partner to standardize and bring best-in-class technology solutions across its current portfolio and planned developments of commercial spaces. Openpath’s award-winning platform focuses on integrated technology to provide fr…

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  • Proptech firm Bricklane doubles size of portfolio by buying 74 rental homes

    PROPERTYWEEK

    Proptech investment platform Bricklane has more than doubled the size of its portfolio with the acquisition of 74 rental properties worth a combined £13.6m. The platform, which allows the public to invest in property portfolios for a little as £100, acquired the units from the British Residential Unit Trust in a cash and shares transaction. The units are spread across four buildings in Manchester and Birmingham, and are 93% leased. They were acquired on behalf of Bricklane’s Regional Capital…

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  • Brace Raises $10 Million in Series A Funding Led by Point72 Ventures

    BUSINESSWIRE

    LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Brace, a digital mortgage-servicing platform, today announced that it has raised an additional $10M in Series A funding led by Point72 Ventures. The investment round, which received participation from existing investors, including Crosslink Capital, brings the company’s total funding to $15M in less than two years. The financing will be used to expand the Company’s platform with additional SaaS technology impacting other segments within the lifecycle of mortgage ser…

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  • As the Start-Up Boom Deflates, Tech Is Humbled

    NYTIMES

    SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past decade, technology start-ups grew so quickly that they couldn’t hire people fast enough. Now the layoffs have started coming in droves. Last month, the robot pizza start-up Zume and the car-sharing company Getaround slashed more than 500 jobs. Then the DNA testing company 23andMe, the logistics start-up Flexport, the Firefox maker Mozilla and the question-and-answer website Quora did their own cuts.

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  • CBRE plans cuts to NYC tech team

    THEREALDEAL

    CBRE is planning to lay off more than three dozen employees in its New York office due to a shift in business priorities. The world’s largest commercial real estate services firm filed a notice with the state’s Department of Labor earlier this month stating it planned to let go 40 employees.

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  • Colorado’s Outrider Comes Out Of Stealth With $53M To Automate Logistics Hub Operations

    CRUNCHBASE

    Previously Azevtec, the Golden, Colorado-based company has the ambitious goal of changing the way Fortune 500 companies “move products from the warehouse door to the road.” It has been quietly operating and working on its technology since June 2017. Outrider raised an $8.5 million seed round, led by NEA, in June 2018, and then a $44.5 million Series A led by 8VC in April 2019. Other investors include Koch Disruptive Technologies, Fraser McCombs Capital, Prologis, Schematic Ventures, Loup Venture…

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  • Furniture Rental Service Feather Raises $30M in Series B Funding

    BUILTNYC

    On Wednesday, furniture rental service Feather announced it raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Cobalt Capital. This comes less than a year after the company’s $12 million Series A and brings its total equity funding to $46 million. High-quality furniture costs a lot of money, and its value goes down dramatically once it is used. And for people who move around a lot, buying nice furniture can be too much of a financial commitment.

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  • Biproxi Acquires Commercial Real Estate Listing Site OfficeSpace.com

    THENEWSFUNNELd

    Biproxi, the leading end-to-end commercial real estate platform trusted by the world’s largest commercial brokerages, today announced that it has acquired Officespace.com. The acquisition will allow Biproxi to consolidate all of its commercial real estate (CRE) data and listings on the Officespace.com website, which is already the second largest CRE listing site in the U.S. with over 550,000 listings, and is visited by over 350,000 buyers and tenants every month. In addition, OfficeSpace.com has…

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  • WeWork Paid Former Employee $2M Settlement In Sexual Harassment Case

    BISNOW

    WeWork, amid its rapid expansion in 2018, paid more than $2M to a female employee in the real estate division who was threatening to blow the lid off claims of rampant sexual harassment, pay discrimination and widespread drug use within the company. In a 50-page document obtained by Business Insider, the woman reportedly said she would sue the company and make a complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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