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White House Move Signals Major Tech Shift for Real Estate Industry

Commercial Observer
4/25/2022

In late March, the Biden administration unveiled a new initiative with the potential to impact our country’s health and infrastructure on an unprecedented scale. The Clean Air in Buildings Challenge implores building owners to improve their indoor air quality (IAQ) through improvements to HVAC and filtration. While the ask seems simple enough, it marks the federal acknowledgement of a major shift that’s shaking up the health, real estate and building management sectors; IAQ has become a national…

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Millennial Property Managers Leading Software Adoption

FM Industry
4/21/2022

A survey of UK property managers by MRI Software reveals millennials have emerged as the dominant age group in the industry and that women continue to be underrepresented.

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See you at CREtech London

PlaceTech
4/21/2022

Join PlaceTech next week as we head to CREtech London for the hottest dedicated proptech show in Europe.

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A Real Estate Nightmare on Foxhall Road

Washingtonian
4/21/2022

Two houses in DC’s Palisades were “built to perfection,” according to their developer: Steve Salis, owner of Ted’s Bulletin and Kramers. But the homeowners allege they were defrauded into buying $1.8 million lemons.

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SoftBank-Backed Sandbox Said to Seek Funds at $4 Billion Value

Bloomberg
4/21/2022

The Sandbox, a platform that allows users to trade and monetize virtual assets in the Ethereum blockchain, is considering raising fresh funds at a valuation of more than $4 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Tulu makes the sharing economy extremely local (to just your apartment building)

TechCrunch
4/21/2022

If sharing is caring, Tulu has a giant rack of care for you. The company takes the sharing economy to its next logical stop along its journey toward “who even owns stuff anymore?”, giving 50,000 people across a handful of countries access to items that make apartment and dorm living just that little bit more convenient. After all, how many people in a building need to own a drill, a printer and a vacuum cleaner, anyway? …

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CASE STUDY | SOM unveils ‘Chicago’s smartest building’

PlaceTech
4/21/2022

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, QuadReal and Thor Equities have completed 800 Fulton Market, in one of Chicago’s fastest growing neighborhoods, the Fulton Market District.

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Wheelhouse spins out of Lyric in the flex rental market

TechCrunch
4/21/2022

In mid-2020, short-term rental startup Lyric Hospitality shuttered most of its locations in what was widely viewed as another pandemic casualty.

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Better.com Cuts More Jobs in New Round of Layoffs

WSJ
4/21/2022

Better.com is cutting more jobs on Tuesday, the online mortgage lender’s third round of layoffs since December and its first cuts since offering voluntary buyouts to some employees nearly two weeks ago.

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WeWork + Yardi to create next gen workplace software

PlaceTech
4/21/2022

The global flexible space provider is partnering with Yardi, the leading provider of real estate software, to accelerate speed to market and deliver more enhanced capabilities to the already announced WeWork Workplace product.

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