This Data Centers ’Arms Race’ Could Decide Who Commands The Metaverse

Why Companies Aren’t Cutting Back on Office Space

In our monthly surveys of 5,000 American workers and 500 U.S. employers, and in our numerous conversations with managers, a huge shift to hybrid work is abundantly clear for office and knowledge workers. An emerging norm is three days a week in the office and two at home, cutting days on site by 30% or more.

Fintech Company Aqueous Asset Launches Valuations Platform AVA

As financial technology continues to be more closely associated with proptech, Los Angeles-based fintech company Aqueous Asset on Monday announced the launch of AVA, its AI-powered tech SaaS platform for multifamily valuations.

Hybrid work now dominates the knowledge economy

For the first time since the start of the pandemic, most knowledge workers are in hybrid work arrangements, partly remote and partly in-office, a new survey finds. By the numbers: 58% said they now work this way, in a survey of around 10,000 knowledge workers from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Japan, conducted last November by Future Forum, a research group backed by Slack….

CREtech Climate Cast: Decarbonizing CRE with Data featuring Bryan Bennett

Bryan Bennett, CEO and Founder of Cortex Building Intelligence, takes a deep dive into how their real-time actionable insights improve sustainability and increase ROI for the commercial real estate industry. Bryan also shares lessons learned from building and scaling Coretex and practices that work in terms of adoption. …

Even early enterprise metaverse solutions are at least 3-5 years away

It’s going to take many years and lots of technology breakthroughs to actually make the metaverse happen. The challenge is, the metaverse is really not one thing any more than computing is one thing. It’s more of a concept than an architecture. A whole series of components are needed to make it work, and those components will differ across use cases. For example, the kind of enterprise metaverse environment needed in a manufacturing or health care setting is very different from the kind needed t…

Why We Invested in SwiftConnect

Walk into any building, and the first piece of technology you typically encounter is access control. When the experience is seamless — say, the tap of a mobile phone on a turnstile allowing you to enter without skipping a step—access control barely registers. But when it isn’t — say, your visitor pass didn’t work and now you’re waiting in line at security to be let in — access control can sour tenant experience and burden building operations. As hybrid and flexible work have made the execution o…

Startup LEX raises $15M to “take buildings public”

Direct investment in commercial real estate typically has been reserved for the wealthy and connected. But LEX allows everyday investors to buy and sell shares of individual commercial assets for as little as $250, without required holding periods.

Building Engines Launches Advanced HVAC Solution for Comprehensive Lifecyle Management

Boston – Building Engines, a market-leading provider of building operations software for modern commercial real estate (CRE), today announced expanded functionality of its Prism platform with an advanced, fully integrated HVAC management solution. Owners, operators and tenants will now be able to streamline and automate the entirety of the HVAC maintenance and compliance lifecycle within Prism, offering full visibility of all equipment and building systems with accurate and consolidated data….

Apollo, Oaktree Join Private Equity’s Push to Report ESG Data

A push by the private equity industry to measure its effect on the environment and society is gaining steam.