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  • Rethinking Real Estate: The Big Case For Small Residential

    FORBES

    What market is twice as big as the hotel industry and has not yet been disrupted by technology? The small residential industry. If you’ve never heard of it, there’s a reason. People often refer to multifamily as an industry representing all buildings/complexes with anywhere from two units to over 1,000 units. Less familiar to some, but also very large, is the single-family rental industry. However, separating the rental housing sector into these two categories misses the mark. Allow me to intro…

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  • HqO Launching at EQ Office’s Willis Tower

    HQO

    Monday, March 18, 2019 – HqO, a tenant experience (TeX) platform for commercial real estate, today announced that it will launch in Chicago’s Willis Tower, owned and managed by EQ Office (EQ), a U.S. office portfolio company wholly-owned by Blackstone’s real estate funds. After a comprehensive process evaluating TeX solutions on the market, EQ selected HqO to enhance one of its most iconic assets with software….

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  • New Research: Total Deal Volume in Proptech Co’s and Top 10 VC’s

    CREtech

    In a time when an “all-out-sprint” is the business strategy for high-growth companies, some companies are finding solace in partnering with accelerators to strategically build their business. Amongst the Top 10 investors in 2018, accelerators accounted for 61 percent of all investments, capturing the lions share of deals. Accelerators aren’t a new concept in the venture lexicon, but for some accelerators, like REach, investments straddle the “Nano Investment” line, an emerging trend in the g…

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  • PropTech Startups Are Merging To Entice Big Real Estate Investors

    BISNOW

    Major real estate investors are still conservative when it comes to PropTech, and startups are looking for ways to legitimize themselves to an industry that still doesn’t fully understand them. A growing number of small to midsize PropTech companies are merging to achieve scale and diversify their offerings in order to increase their appeal to investors and potential adopters in the real estate industry, according to a new report from real estate/tech law firm Goodwin. As a result, PropTech c…

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  • How to prepare your business for voice search

    THE NEXT WEB

    Bought an Amazon Echo last Christmas? You were not the only one. According to a statement released by Amazon, “millions” of Echo Dots — the manufacturer’s smart home devices featuring voice assistant Alexa — were sold during the holidays, making it the best-selling item on their website. Indeed, virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa are increasingly being used in everyday life — and this changes the way consumers browse the web….

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  • Morpholio AR SketchWalk Brings Floor Plans Into the Real World

    ARCHITECT MAGAZINE

    Mentally inserting oneself into a floor plan can come as second nature for architects, but the exercise can be a bit abstract for others. In the past, designers have employed physical models and even tape or rope on floors to help clients experience a space, understand scale, and envision adjacencies. Nowadays, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies can bridge the gap in spatial understanding sans the hours spent in the modeling lab or ripping up kinked-again tape. But VR a…

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  • Related’s Hudson Yards: Smart City or Surveillance City?

    THE REAL DEAL

    In a scene from “Gattaca,” the dystopian 1997 film set in the “not too distant future,” dozens of people are seen entering the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation headquarters using their genetic fingerprint to pass security clearance. It may seem like a far-flung sci-fi reference, but at Hudson Yards, the gargantuan “smart city” that officially opened Friday on the Far West Side, there are elements of art-meets-life.

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  • Winners & Losers in PropTech: 16 Differences

    ANTONY SLUMBERS

    2019 has kicked off with something of a feeding frenzy in the world of PropTech. There is much talk of this company investing, that startup raising, and the thousands of new entrants from all around the world looking to ‘disrupt the biggest asset class in the world’. Well, here is a tip: most startups will fail and most investments in using startup technology will fail as well.

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  • Zeus raises $24M to make you a living-as-a-service landlord

    TECHCRUNCH

    Cookie-cutter corporate housing turns people into worker drones. When an employee needs to move to a new city for a few months, they’re either stuck in bland, giant apartment complexes or Airbnbs meant for shorter stays. But Zeus lets any homeowner get paid to host white-collar transient labor. Through its managed ownership model, Zeus takes on all the furnishing, upkeep, and risk of filling the home while its landlords sit back earning cash….

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  • How AI Is Making Market Data Smarter

    GLOBEST

    Machine learning and AI technology are becoming essential tools for brokers to both market and sell a property. Considering the data-centric nature of real estate, it is surprising that the industry hasn’t more rapidly adapted to new technology, but companies like SetSchedule are bringing the real estate industry into the fold with smart tools that make data more accessible and accurate.

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