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  • Four Proptech Advances That Are Changing The Way We Interact With Physical Space

    JEREMY NEUER for FORBES

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If you aren’t embracing new technology, you are going to get left behind. In today’s modern world, this statement rings truer than ever. The digital age is taking over every industry, and real estate is no exception. Now, searching for vacation rentals, homes and commercial properties via mobile apps is the norm — and real estate technology doesn’t stop there. Once buyers and renters find the properties of their dreams, they want tech to be readily a…

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  • Irvine Company adds RideStop rideshare program at Santa Clara Square to pinpoint exact location of Lyft customers

    IRVINE COMPANY

    New RideStop system addresses top issue facing rideshare drivers and customers – finding each other; RideStop sign additions latest in Irvine Company/Lyft landmark partnership SANTA CLARA, Calif. (May 28, 2019) –  Irvine Company, Lyft (NASDQ:LYFT) and RideStop® announced today a new approach for easily connecting rideshare drivers and customers at Santa Clara Square – digitally-enabled signs that pinpoint the exact pick-up location. Operational for six months, the RideStop system creat…

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  • Q&A: Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman on competing with Zillow, and the potential of real estate tech

    GEEKWIRE

    Redfin is more than two years into what was once an experiment, buying homes from people, sprucing them up and then selling them, and it has learned some lessons along the way. “We felt more careful about it over the past two years than we do now, because at first we bought some homes that were total dogs,” Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said. “They sat on the market for a long time, and we had to take a loss. But eventually you figure out a formula where you know you’re going to be able to sell thi…

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  • Replacing In-Person Tours with Virtual Experiences is the New Reality

    GLOBEST

    ATLANTA, GA—Its all a part of the process when searching for new office space or a new building—you repeatedly jump into a vehicle and tour a seemingly never-ending list of properties that you may or may not like. With the advent of virtual and augmented reality technology, replacing in-person tours with virtual experiences is the new reality. In the report, “Virtual Reality Technology Nears the Tipping Point to Disrupt Commercial Real Estate,” the author, David Stella, vice president of Cons…

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  • This millennial used scholarship money to buy property in college—now his real estate company is worth $3.8 billion

    CNBC

    Many college students living on a tight budget take on side-jobs just to scrape together and save enough money to help them pay off student loan debts down the road. But self-made millionaire Eric Wu spent his college scholarship money and free time building an impressive real estate portfolio that included roughly 25 properties by the time he graduated in 2005, he tells CNBC Make It. And that paved the way for him to make millions in the real estate and tech industries….

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  • Amazon real estate chief: ‘I want to change the way that people work within the four walls’

    GEEKWIRE

    Amazon doesn’t just innovate on behalf of customers. The tech giant also comes up with new ideas to help its own employees. That’s playing out with how Amazon is thinking about its physical workspaces, according to comments from Amazon’s global real estate chief John Schoettler at an event in Seattle on Wednesday evening. A panel discussion at the Museum of History & Industry with top executives focused on innovation happening within South Lake Union, where Amazon has helped completely…

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  • S4E44 Interview with Erina Malarkey & Anna-Lea Dieringer, Co-Founders of Remarkably

    TECH NEST

    This is a special episode in that we get to feature both co-founders from a startup out of Seattle. Anna-Lea Dieringer and Erina Malarkey have known each other for many years. Only recently did they decide to align their skills from consulting, asset management, marketing, and commercial real estate to create a platform, Remarkably, aimed at improving multifamily marketing and asset performance. Whether its a new building not yet under construction or an under performing asset, Remarkably is aim…

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  • Mynd Property Management Merges with RentVest to Create One of the Largest Small Residential Property Management Firms in the U.S.

    MYND

    Mynd Property Management, a property management firm serving the small residential sector with a combination of on-the-ground experts and innovative technology, has merged with RentVest, a property management company operating in major metro areas nationwide. Combined, the new entity forms one of the largest small residential property management firms in the U.S. The small residential sector includes all single-family rental (SFR) homes and multifamily properties with 50 units or less, where …

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  • Q&A with Ben Liao, Managing Director of the Colliers Proptech Accelerator Powered by Techstars

    CRETech

    Ben Liao is one of the most impressive and important people in the CREtech ecosystem. His leadership at Colliers Proptech Accelerator Powered by Techstars is making a profound impact on our industry and I am proud to call him a friend and have him as part of our Leadership Board at CREtech.com. I caught up with Ben recently to get up to speed on some of his new initiatives and views of the sector at large.. First of all, can you refresh us as to who is Techstars? Ben Liao: Founded …

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  • NASA Planning Test Flights For Drone-Powered Cities

    BISNOW

    Even though there’s not yet a commercially viable drone that can transport humans around, at least two Florida developers are building with a Jetsons-style future in mind. NASA this week announced that from now through August it will embark on its “final and most complex season of flight tests, called Technical Capability Level 4,” which focus on the unique challenges of flying small drones in the urban landscape. NASA predicts that what it calls unmanned aircraft systems, or UAS, will soon b…

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