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Knotel closed a $70 million in a Series B funding round on Tuesday, with plans to expand rapidly and muster a serious challenge to industry leader WeWork. The flexible office space startup led by Amol Sarva has now raised $100 million between two seed rounds, and is valued at $500 million, according to research firm Pitchbook. Knotel, which in the past two years has leased more than 1.1 million sq...

Fresh off of an $80 million funding round, flexible workspace provider Industrious has continued to grow its footprint nationally—and the Southern California market is no exception. Industrious has inked leases for two new locations, spanning a combined 64,000 square feet, in the Century City district of Los Angeles and the Orange County city of Irvine, according to The Real Deal. The shared off...

As they do every March, commercial real estate professionals and civic leaders from around the globe recently converged on Cannes, France, for the annual MIPIM conference that internationally examines the industry. During the event, the most prominent topics impacting the industry were discussed, and the grandest projects to be seen in select cities and countries were on display in the exhibit hal...

WeWork, the New York City-based coworking giant, is opening its first-ever college location on the campus of University of Maryland in College Park, four miles from Washington, D.C. The company has subleased a 20,000-square-foot building at 7761 Greenhouse Road in the Maryland college’s Discovery District next to The Hotel at the University of Maryland. It will offer coworking and office space, ...

A tech startup that’s been described as Uber for the $676 billion trucking industry is doubling the size of its Garment District offices. Transfix, which has raised $78.5 million from investors since its founding in 2013, signed a lease for 60,000 square feet at George Comfort & Sons’ 498 Seventh Avenue, the landlord confirmed to The Real Deal. The five-year-old company currently occupies ...

In early March, a 25-foot-wide billboard went up at 3033 North Clark Street in Lakeview. On it was a cartoon of a mustachioed, fedora-clad old-timer with Groucho Marx eyebrows, clasping a giant compass. Splashed next to him, right above an @properties logo, were the ominous words: “Don’t ask for directions from a tourist.” It was a quintessentially Chicago welcome for Compass, the venture-ba...

We've said it before... PropTech is having a moment. Everywhere you look – Twitter, conferences & events, real estate trade and business press, and in the offices of landlords, brokers, property managers, leasing managers, etc. – everyone in commercial real estate is talking about proptech. Of recent note, these conversations have revolved around how proptech can vastly improve the tenant...

FUTURE: PropTech is well established as the leading & most well attended global event dedicated to the technology innovation & digital transformation occurring in the wider Real Estate sector. Join us on Wednesday 2nd May 2018, for our 4th annual conference as we bring together over 1,200+ delegates including the worlds leading real estate companies, agents, brokers, tech V.C’s, media &a...

Each month, CPE Asks features insights from leading industry executives on a significant issue. Next month’s topic: reconstruction. How have your corporate management priorities changed over the past five to 10 years? Michael Thanasouras, Managing Director, SVN In managing our company since its inception just over 10 years ago, our approach has gone from reactive to proactive. Ten years ago, our...

RealConnex, the largest networking and business development platform for the CRE industry, is pleased to announce a partnership with Invizen IT, a real-time CRE analytics platform, which supplements RealConnex’s array of deal-making tools by introducing asset protection, underwriting, land value analysis and feasibility reporting so users can connect to capital, investment and other services fas...