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Freshly launched Span Drive continues Span’s mission to smarten up your home

TechCrunch
10/30/2021

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….

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Jobs Advertising Hybrid Work Availability Surge in Q3

GlobeSt
10/30/2021

The office sector has seen a spate of downsizing moves among large tenants coast to coast over the last quarter, despite increasing occupancy across top US metros in the last few months.

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Startup Cover hauls in $60M to build homes in backyards

The Real Deal
10/30/2021

Cover, a Los Angeles-based startup that builds custom backyard homes for renters and financially challenged relatives, raised $60 million to scale up. Gigafund led the Series B round with participation from Valor Equity Partners and Founders Fund — early investors in Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Tesla — and homebuilder Lennar, among others.

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Leveraging Data in Retail, Part 3

CREtech
10/30/2021

Ami Ziff of Time Equities discusses how consumers’ demands are constantly pushing the retail industry forward, and how that affects the real estate that these companies inhabit.

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Meet the exec leading Realogy’s big iBuying bet

The Real Deal
10/30/2021

Katie Finnegan has felt the pain of moving. Acutely. The new chief executive of Realogy’s iBuyer program has moved three times in the past three years, selling and buying homes in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles. And although she said “rock-star agents” handled the sales, she described the experience as “stressful.”

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CREtech London | Real estate given wake-up call on ‘dangerous’ offsets

Placetech
10/30/2021

In one of the hardest hitting sessions at CREtech London, a panel of VCs gave real estate several warnings about its approach to sustainability and the future of climate regulations.

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Turntide Technologies Launches New Intelligent Building Solution For Sustainable Operations

Turntide
10/30/2021

Turntide Technologies, (“Turntide”), developer of electrification and sustainable operations technologies, today announced the roll-out of its new Turntide for Buildings, a full-stack intelligent building solution. Turntide combines its Smart Motor SystemTM with automation software, connected edge equipment, and cloud insights to improve energy efficiency and streamline building operations while reducing downtime and maintenance costs….

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OneRoof raises $1.25M to build a hyper-localized Nextdoor

TechCrunch
10/28/2021

As urban rental markets recover and people flock back to cities, people are once again finding themselves with plenty of new neighbors in communities that are trying to embrace a renewed vibrancy of post-lockdown life. OneRoof is building a social network for residential buildings. Unlike Nextdoor, which organizes communities based on ZIP codes or neighborhoods, OneRoof wants to build up a presence inside large multi-unit buildings so that neighbors can get to know each other in smaller, tighte…

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Edinburgh awards five-year contract to support smart city transformation

Smart Cities World
10/28/2021

As part of the agreement, consulting firm CGI will deploy its SensorInsights360 real-time data platform to improve operational efficiencies while monitoring and managing critical services.

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Job Switching Has Become America’s Pastime And It’s Paying Off for Workers

GlobeSt
10/28/2021

Job-switching has become one of the country’s leading pastimes over recent months, and ADP this week shared its corresponding wage and job growth for Q3—including within the construction industry. US wage growth increased 3.3%, in line with growth in the months leading up to the pandemic; however, wage growth for job switchers increased 6.6% since September 2020, according to the ADP Research Institute Workforce Vitality Report….

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