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Disrupting CRE – It’s A Matter of Trust October 18, 2017 By Chris Clark 8 Comments Innovation and disruption are studied a lot these days as everyone tries to identify industries ripe for disruption and figure out  exactly how to disrupt them. One way to do that is to reverse engineer disrupting companies to create a blueprint of sorts to help innovative types find a path for disruption. As I...

Dozens of innovators in technology and real estate spent last weekend in a fourth-floor midtown Manhattan tech incubator to devise creative ways to tackle some of the biggest problems plaguing the real estate industry. The Real Estate Board of New York’s (REBNY) 2017 hackathon, taking place at Grand Central Tech-- a tech breeding place that provides office space, resources and educational opport...

Sidewalk Labs — the urban innovation unit of Google parent company Alphabet — will design a high-tech neighborhood on Toronto's waterfront, the company announced today at a press conference. Called Quayside, the neighborhood's plan will prioritize "environmental sustainability, affordability, mobility, and economic opportunity," according to Sidewalk Labs. The city of T...

Alphabet-owned Sidewalk Labs, the Google parent’s company focused on smart city technologies, will build a “mixed-use, complete community in Toronto on its eastern waterfront, with the aim of building a livable space from the ground up using innovations in construction techniques, self-driving, climate friendly energy systems and more to build a community that’s affordable and accessible wit...

What is BIM? Building Information Modeling, known in the industry as BIM, first emerged around 2002 and has rapidly increased openness and collaboration in the construction industry. BIM is a catch-all term for a range of software that allows multiple parties to access digital representations of projects’ physical and functional characteristics. BIM is information and technology that creates a...

There’s lots to like about startups that are rarely in the media because they are heads down developing product and building an actual business. Envoy is one of those. Led by former kid prodigy Larry Gadea, who worked for Google at 19 and later moved on to Twitter, it has kept pretty quiet since it took a $15 million check in June 2015 from marquee Silicon Valley investor Andreessen Horowitz to ...

After years of butting heads with local zoning officials, landlords and rental property owners, Airbnb may have found a solution to its short-term rental woes: opening up an Airbnb-branded apartment where tenants will be allowed to sublet their spaces up to 180 days per year. Airbnb has partnered with Miami-based Newgard Development Group to build the 324-unit building in Kissimmee, Florida, locat...

Homebuyers and sellers are becoming more aware of the value of rooftop solar panels-- not just for ecological reasons, but for energy savings as well-- and now there is a quick and easy way to estimate that value. Zillow has partnered with two startups, Sun Number and Wave Solar, to include Sun Number's proprietary rooftop solar scoring system on 84 million properties on Zillow nationwide as ...

Commercial Real Estate CRE Opinion: Texas Residential Real Estate Is Prime for Disruption No area of real estate is more in need of disruption than mortgages, where most lenders are still using archaic practices and technology. By Mark Greco Published in Commercial Real Estate October 16, 2017 2:34 pm SMS Several contributing factors have come together to create the perfect Molotov cocktail for ma...

While Expedia and Priceline roll out ways to encroach on Airbnb’s space with their own private home listings for travellers, the $31 billion venture-backed Airbnb is also looking at new ways to boost its own traffic and bookings. Airbnb is now rolling out a new call for affiliate partners, where high-traffic sites with over 1 million visitors can embed Airbnb property listings and make commissio...