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  • Soil Connect Launches Version 2.0 of Innovative Digital Platform for Construction Professionals

    SOILCONNECT

    NEW YORK (February 25, 2020) – Soil Connect, an innovative digital platform connecting those who have soil with those who need it, today announced the launch of version 2.0 of its mobile and web-based app, bringing much-needed modernization to the transport and management of soil, aggregates and other materials. In conjunction with the launch, Soil Connect announced that its first institutional financing was led by Michigan investment group Common Sail, and disclosed that it has executed strateg…

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  • Operators Make Buildings Smart and Efficient

    GLOBEST

    While EnerNOC’s Energy Intelligence Software business was a pioneer in energy management serving a wide variety of industries, its spin-off by former EnerNOC leaders, Hatch Data, is focused squarely on the $15 trillion commercial real estate market. This is a logical step, given the increasing concentration on environmental, social and governance issues that come with real estate ownership.

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  • Construction Technology Firm Targets Lending Pain Points

    GLOBEST

    Built, a construction finance technology platform, is taking aim at the pain points in construction lending, continually adding features to help streamline the process. To accomplish this goal the firm has brought on commercial lender executive Jim Fraser to help with the task.

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  • The Key to New York’s Green Dreams May Be Turning Quebec Into a Mega-Battery

    BLOOMBERG

    Dotted within the sparsely populated forests and tundra of northern Quebec is an existing technology that could hold the key to slashing greenhouse-gas emissions created by powering the dense cities and suburbs between Boston and New York, at the lowest possible price. All that’s needed is a handful of new transmission lines, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the existing network of hydroelectric dams from the Hudson Bay to the St. Lawrence River could se…

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  • Zillow Founder Rich Barton Becomes Billionaire

    THEREALDEAL

    Barton owns the largest individual stake in Zillow, which he started with four colleagues from his prior company, Expedia. He stepped down from his CEO position in 2010 and stayed on as executive chairman but returned to his CEO role last February to lead Zillow’s iBuying charge through its service Zillow Offers. The company’s stock still struggled throughout 2019, but Zillow released the year’s full earnings report Wednesday and showed enough momentum to raise its stock price significantly….

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  • Innovating the industry with proptech

    CUSHMANWAKEFIELD

    Cushman & Wakefield recently partnered with Fifth Wall, the world’s largest venture capital firm focused on technologies for the global real estate industry. We recently sat down with Brendan Wallace, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Fifth Wall, and Brett White, Executive Chairman & CEO, Cushman & Wakefield, to talk about their strategic partnership, how the firms complement each other and why they hope to revolutionize the industry together.

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  • Sizing Up SoftBank-Backed Real Estate Startups After WeWork Implosion

    THEREALDEAL

    Masayoshi Son was widely regarded as an eccentric-but-gifted entrepreneur when, in 2014, he dazzled investors during an earnings presentation by showing them a picture of a large, brown-feathered bird. “SoftBank wants to become the goose that lays the golden eggs,” Son told them, two years before launching a $100 billion Vision Fund that went on to anoint a crop of promising startups….

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  • How CRE Can Adapt to Climate Change

    GLOBEST

    NEW YORK CITY — Mass urbanization and commercial real estate’s climate impact demand strong action by designers, urban planners and architects, developers and legislators around the world. It’s also a subject that Gensler has taken very seriously: the Gensler Cities Climate Challenge (GC3) outlines the firm’s commitment to design all their projects to net-zero standards by 2030; and addressed it in their recently released Design Forecast  “Shaping the Future of Cities.” Diane Hoskins and Andy Co…

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  • Masayoshi Son’s Other Big Real Estate Bet Has Some Real Problems

    BLOOMBERG

    Last March, months before the meltdown at WeWork, Masayoshi Son worked through the prospects for another one of his favorite portfolio companies — a startup from India called Oyo. In a spacious conference hall at his Tokyo headquarters, the Japanese billionaire huddled with lieutenants from the startup and his own SoftBank Group Corp. to brainstorm strategy. He figured Oyo had the potential to disrupt both the staid hotel business and short-term apartment rentals in Japan, according to people i…

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  • The Antony Slumbers Podcast: 20 changes in the 2020s

    ANTONYSLUMBERS

    Thoughts, ideas and inspiration from Antony Slumbers. The audio versions (as read by me) of the posts I write for my blog at antonyslumbers.com – covering #SpaceAsAService, Innovation, Workplace, AI in Real Estate, PropTech, New Business Models, The Future of Property Management, and ‘Humans + Machines’.

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