Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
Markets Insider
Lumber prices have nearly doubled over the past month, holding above the $1,000 mark as recent floods in Canada limited shipments while demand remains strong with US homebuilders staying busy.
Yardi
Yardi’s suite of commercial real estate data and marketing services continues to grow for the benefit of its clients. Today, the company announced its acquisition and redesign of 42Floors.com, the popular online marketing platform for tenants and brokers.
Israel Hayom
Hundreds of Israeli real estate startups have raised $3.5 billion. Sensors embedded in concrete, walls that monitor temperature, windows showing ads, hands-free cranes? All in a day’s work.
PR Newswire
New hires to strengthen Fifth Wall’s expertise in the global real estate and technology industries, across both private and public markets, while advancing the firm’s original content strategy
CREtech
Annie Rinker of Hines reveals what drove the company to launch a flex workspace offering, and how technology has helped them succeed within the flex space.
The Real Deal
Social media platform partnering with Virtual Dining Concepts
Commercial Observer
Undeterred by inflation, supply chain issues, and the start of another winter of COVID-19, venture capitalists invested $32 billion in proptech companies in 2021, a 28 percent increase in funding over 2020 and a 3.23 percent increase compared to 2019, according to a report released Monday.
Bisnow
Last month, a record-breaking transaction — a $2.5M sale of 116 parcels of “land” in Decentraland, a leading metaverse platform that launched in 2017 — underscored the influx of real-world investors and brokers in the market.
World Economic Forum
Typically, problems come before solutions and the real estate sector certainly has a number of problems. It is one of the most carbon-intensive sectors, accounting for 38% of total global greenhouse gas emissions. The sector is also being affected by dramatic social changes – namely where people work, what they want from their homes, how they shop and how often they travel. …
The Real Deal
A group of pioneers worried about climate change and encroaching sea levels have created a buoyant neighborhood, where homes share electricity via a local smart grid and bob with the tied thanks to steel foundation poles that allow them to rise and fall, the Washington Post reports.
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