CRE Faces Mounting Pressure To Cut Emissions ‘Without Actually Knowing How to Get There’

Governments and investors around the world are putting increased pressure on owners of commercial buildings to reduce their emissions. The U.S. federal government has shown it can be done if owners are motivated enough: On Thursday, the agency that operates the government’s 370M SF real estate portfolio said it has cut the emissions of those buildings by half between 2008 and last year.

What Proptech is Doing to Address Housing Affordability

This article is the second part of a three-part series on Proptech innovation addressing housing affordability. To read Part I, which includes our introduction to the topic and covers home ownership, please head to the original piece. …

PropTech startup Bright Spaces is coming closer to its UK partners

PropTech startup Bright Spaces launched its first subsidiary abroad, in the UK. The startup, which creates advanced, end-to-end digital leasing platforms for commercial and residential real estate, already has two clients from the UK.  

Multifamily Owners Aren’t Putting Enough Juice Into EV Infrastructure

When Ford, General Motors, Mercedes-Benz and other auto manufacturers last year pledged to phase out sales of gas and diesel vehicles worldwide by 2040, the most immediate impact on commercial real estate came in the form of multibillion-dollar plans to build domestic factories and battery plants.  

Augmented Reality Is What’s in Store for Commerce

Augmented reality could completely change how you shop, but don’t expect it to dramatically change where you do it.

Putting real estate investments to the ESG test

How an increasing focus on ESG is influencing the industrial sector

The commercial real estate’s industrial sector is beginning to slowly reform to meet investors’ requirements in terms of environmental, social and governance (ESG), particularly with new buildings or those undergoing major refurbishment.  

Will Proptech Pop the Housing Bubble or Make It Worse?

As the U.S. housing shortage worsens, some proptech startups are attempting to balance the buyer-seller equation through their respective approach to the market. However, it is questionable whether their efforts will bring relief to single and multifamily homebuyers.

Arup launches ‘mainstream’ circular buildings toolkit

Arup has launched a practical toolkit designed to bring a circular economy for buildings into the mainstream, future-proofing assets as sustainability policies redraw the real estate landscape.

Proptech was a party last year. ‘2022 is the hangover,’ investor says

Investors focused on real estate dish on the selloff of proptech stocks and why they’re still optimistic on the rest of the year.