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  • WeWork’s Layoffs Come Into Sharper Focus

    CRUNCHBASE

    WeWork’s impending layoffs are coming into sharper focus after the highly valued and well-funded unicorn reckons with the wreckage of its attempt to go public. The We Company, parent company to popular coworking brand WeWork, tried to go public this year, only to meet a fusillade of criticism after its filing became public. Obtuse financials, staggering losses, a messy CEO, and more led investors to pass on its shares, leading to their rapid devaluation during the IPO process….

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  • ‘The heart of the building’: AI pumps life into architecture at Microsoft through interactive ‘Ada’

    GEEKWIRE

    Art and architecture already speaks to us on a multitude of levels. A new installation on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Wash., communicates in a new way, using artificial intelligence to “read the room” and become an interactive element reacting to people in the space. As part of the tech giant’s Artist in Residence program, “Ada” has been installed in Microsoft’s Building 99. It’s the creation of Ithaca, N.Y.-based architectural designer Jenny Sabin, in collaboration with Microsoft research…

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  • Nooklyn CEO steps down after firm slashes agent commissions

    THE REAL DEAL

    The CEO of startup brokerage Nooklyn is stepping down amid turbulence over the company’s decision to cut agent commissions and alter its payment structure. Harley Courts, who founded the Brooklyn-based company in 2010, is stepping down and taking a leave of absence, according to an email sent to staff Thursday by Courts’ business partner, Moiz Malik. Noble Novitzki, Nooklyn’s chief people officer, will take over as CEO, effective immediately….

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  • In the Apartment Amenity Wars a Sense of Community is Most Important

    GLOBEST

    NEW YORK CITY-Asset managers are packing on community-oriented amenities to compete for and retain tenants in their multifamily properties. This phenomenon has become an amenities arms race as landlords throw a kitchen sink of offerings at prospective tenants. However, what is capturing the crowd is the desire for belonging, according to panelists at the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate’s Third National Symposium of Women in Real Estate. “We have an amenity war occurring, that to attract t…

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  • NYC is banking on Common to deliver affordable beds

    THE REAL DEAL

    New York City is jumping into bed with two co-living firms to build affordable housing. The city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development said Tuesday it will work with Common and Atlanta-based PadSplit — along with each firm’s development partner — to create co-living units. The announcement is the result of a pilot program HPD launched last year, dubbed ShareNYC, offering developers public funds to create income-restricted units in co-living buildings. HPD selected three prop…

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  • 10 Questions to Ask at CREtech NYC 2019

    ENERTIV

    CREtech’s annual event in New York is one of the best places for commercial real estate professionals to get up to speed on the progress tech companies have made over the past year. It’s an exciting time, the success of conferences like CREtech is testament to real estate’s rapid embrace of PropTech. And yet, technology and real estate companies often speak different languages, which leads many professionals to feel like they’re trying to drink from a fire hose. One major problem is buzzwords….

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  • Smarking Boosts Commercial Real Estate Revenue and Asset Value Via Dynamic Pricing Engine for Parking

    YAHOO FINANCE

    SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– 163% average digital parking revenue uplift in over 10 regions Smarking, the commercial real estate industry’s leading provider of business intelligence and yield management software solutions for parking assets, today announced the official release of the industry’s first algorithmic and fully-automatic dynamic pricing engine. The product, known as AYM (read as “aim”; Automated Yield Management), utilizes Smarking’s business intelligence solution to capture hi…

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  • Here’s a new twist on crowd funding – raising money to buy two Tampa Bay office buildings

    TAMPA BAY TIMES

    ST. PETERSBURG — You’ve probably heard of crowd funding as way to raise money for medical bills, emergency housing or a trip to a big event by the local high school band. But how about to buy an office building? Feldman Equities recently did just that, using money from multiple investors to help finance its $18.2 million purchase of Castille at Carillon. The Tampa-based company went through the CrowdStreet Markeplace, a crowd-funding platform, to acquire the two buildings in the Carillon Office…

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  • Office Landlords Deploy Tech to Enhance Natural Light, Draw Tenants

    GLOBEST

    NEW YORK CITY- Office landlords were slow to adopt technology, but now are wasting no time to use it to transform every inch of their properties, including natural light let in through windows. The topic is on the agenda of next week’s CREtech New York 2019 conference. This feature may appear minor in asset make-up, but when optimized can lower overhead costs and attract tenants, Piers McNaughton, director of health strategy at View Inc., a real estate glass technology company, tells GlobeSt….

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  • Prices Increase Next Week: CREtech New York Starts on October 16

    CREtech

    Join us for CREtech’s biggest east coast two-day conference on October 16-17, 2019. Get an all-access conference pass to discuss all things real estate tech innovation with the most sought-after speakers, the leading startups, investors from around the world, motivated developers/owners and brokers. Our sold-out events are a must-attend for real estate professionals to network, discover and transform your business….

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