Kastle Systems CEO Haniel Lynn On Why There Hasn’t Been A Surge In Returns To The Office Just Yet

For most of the past two years, a large part of the American workforce has been in a state of flux about the return to the office.

Cities need to be redesigned for the climate crisis. Can they make us happy, too?

It’s tempting to draw lines on a map, but we can’t forget that cities should be designed for the people who live there

Blueprint for smart cities proposes they are built on new social contract

Approach seeks to redesign the current model, placing humans at the core and focusing on extensive coordination between policymakers, universities, industry, and citizens.

1 big thing: Pop-up digital ads are taking over the freezer aisle

Grabbing a cold beverage at your local retailer is turning into a high-tech digital odyssey, with ordinary cooler doors coming alive to offer up product information, deals and — yes — advertisements, Joann Muller writes.

Poplar Homes raises $53M Series B to give independent real estate investors the full-stack property management capabilities of national companies

Poplar Homes, a leading tech-enabled property management company for single family rental (SFR) investors, announced it has raised $53M in Series B funding led by LL Funds with participation from new and existing investors including Crescent Cove Advisors, AGNC Ventures, LLC, the corporate venture capital arm of AGNC Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC), well known computer scientist Jeff Dean, proptech VC Zain Jaffer, and other seed investors….

1 big thing: Real-estate crackup

Office vacancy rates are climbing in major markets across the country, with growing signs of distress in loans backed by office buildings, Axios Markets co-author Matt Phillips writes….

London startup Weaver gets $4M to build out a vetted marketplace for home renovations

Weaver, a London-based marketplace and SaaS contract negotiation platform for matching homeowners/architects planning major home renovation projects with vetted contractors, has closed a $4 million seed round to expand nationally.

East Hampton approves affordable housing initiatives

CREtech Announces SEC Newgate as Media Relations Partner for CREtech London 2022 Conference Following Success of 2021 London Debut

CREtech, the world’s leading community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, has announced SEC Newgate UK as CREtech’s official Media Relations Partner for the CREtech London Conference on April 27 – 28 at Magazine London. CREtech London is recognised as Europe’s most important PropTech networking event.

How the pandemic killed the five-day office work week

Employees are heading back to offices around the U.S., but as old routines like long commutes, train rides and face-to-face meetings are revived, one thing will never be the same — the five-day work week.