How and Why to Prioritize Digital Transformation, Part 3
CREtech
Eric Flohr of Berkadia shares how technology companies looking to create disruption in CRE could more effectively approach potential clients and users.
Latest Trends and Insights in Real Estate Technology
Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
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Facebook Joins a Crowded Field in the Race to Build the ‘Metaverse.’ We All Have a Stake in the Outcome.
Wall Street Journal
Tech billionaires are a quirky lot. Some are attempting to build a world imagined in utopian visions of the future, such as ‘Star Trek.’ Others, like Facebook FB 1.98% Chief ExecutiveMark Zuckerberg, would like us to spend as much time as possible here on earth, in what they call a “metaverse.” Facebook, which renamed itself Meta Platforms on Thursday—just “Meta” for short—is truly all-in on the concept. It’s as if Goldman Sachs were to rename itself Crypto….
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WATCH NOW! Keynote: Reimagining Wellness Real Estate
CREtech
Now more than ever, we have become hyper-focused on understanding how indoor environments affect our health outcomes. The spaces we occupy contain an ecosystem of vital elements – from the air we breathe to the water we drink to the light we’re exposed to throughout the day. Our indoor environments impact energy levels, productivity, cognitive function, cardiovascular and pulmonary health, digestion, sleep wake cycles, moods, and overall health and wellness. As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandem…
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Checking in: Offices mimic hotel amenities to lure back workers
New York Post
Office leasing is gaining momentum as the delta variant recedes and worker bees return to the hive — albeit many are yet to appear for all five days a week. “The second wave was scary,” said Matt Astrachan, vice chairman of the global real estate service company JLL. “That was the bottom and once we came off it we saw a robust surge in activity.”
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TODAY @ 12 pm EST: Virtual Demo Day
CREtech
Tune in to our live Virtual Demo Day on Tuesday, November 2 to experience demos from the most innovative tech companies in commercial real estate. Virtual Demo Day is the best way to discover startups that you need to know about without leaving your desk. Plus, it’s FREE! Register now.
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CREtech London Follows Huge Success Of CREtech NYC With Over 2500 Professionals Attending The Conferences Within The Past Two Weeks
CREtech
New York (November 2, 2021) — CREtech, the largest international community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, hosted its debut London conference on the 27th and 28th of October to extraordinary reviews and attendees feedback. This event was the first for CREtech in London since it’s acquisition of FUTURE PropTech in 2019. The successful London event came on the heels of the company’s first in person event since 2019 in New York on October 13 an…
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Porch acquires mortgage software firm Floify for $90M
Housingwire
Publicly traded proptech company Porch Group has been acquiring companies left and right over the past year, and it’s evidently not done yet. The firm announced Wednesday that it has acquired Denver-based digital mortgage automation and point-of-sales software company Floify. The acquisition cost Porch about $76.5 million in cash and $10 million of Porch’s common stock at closing, according to a press release. In 2021, Floify’s software, which streamlines the loan origination process by al…
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For Commercial Real Estate Entrepreneurs, Pandemic Proving To Be The Right Time For Innovation
Forbes
The pandemic has left many small businesses battered and bruised. Others were killed off entirely by the impact of the Covid-19 virus. But for many emerging proptech firms in the commercial real estate space, the Covid era has been a boon to business. So says Daniel Tropp, president and founder of Brooklyn, N.Y.-based AEBOV Industrial Real Estate Brokerage, which handles leasing, investment sales and research, and offers what Tropp terms “the industry’s most innovative real estate valuation p…
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Why Startup Investors Are Putting More Money Into Insurtech
Crunchbase News
Insurance—an industry known for veteran brands and a cautious approach to risk—might seem a strange fit for the move-fast-and-break-things ethos of the startup world, but that hasn’t dissuaded venture capitalists from scaling up.
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Freshly launched Span Drive continues Span’s mission to smarten up your home
TechCrunch
Gone are the days when your A/C and washer/dryer were the movers and shakers (electrically speaking) in your house. These days, electric vehicle chargers, solar power and battery storage solutions set more electrons a-dancin’. Span is one of the companies running point on adding some smarts to the process. The company today launched the Span Drive, an EV charger that is making it possible to further empower your EV based on various rules….
