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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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Bots Solve Problem of Too Many Unqualified Apartment Leads
GlobeSt
For the everyday consumer, the “You Might Also Like” button can certainly be your friend. But for many apartment marketers, it’s become an enemy. It’s a nuisance because one of the industry’s most nagging problems—receiving “too many leads”—persists because so many of those leads are unqualified.
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Embracing Flexibility in the Office and Workforce Trailer
CREtech
Mikki Ward of EQ Office speaks to the importance of a flexible approach to the structure of the office and the workforce, and what technologies will be most useful to ensure success.
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Nike’s new immersive ‘Rise’ store is a wild, high-tech shopping experience
Input
There’s still a reason for the brick-and-mortar retail store to exist — it just has to take on a new, futuristic meaning. And to find the best example of how that’s being done look no further than Nike, which over the past few years has been trying to perfect the formula for the ultimate in-store shopping experience. All in an age heavily dominated by apps.
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Tick Tock! Early Bird Sale For CREtech New York Ends on Wednesday
CREtech
Our Early Bird Sale for the CREtech New York Conference taking place IN-PERSON at Pier 36 on October 13-14 ends WEDNESDAY! Book your ticket now, it’s our last price break.
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ServiceNow expands into indoor mapping with Mapwize acquisition
VentureBeat
ServiceNow is extending its footprint into indoor mapping with the acquisition of French startup Mapwize. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ServiceNow, a workflow automation platform used by businesses such as Deloitte and American Express, said that when the Mapwize acquisition closes in the next couple of months, it will offer the technology as part of a broader service to help employees reserve seats, conference rooms, and other public spaces — as well as generally navigating around la…
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When Scaffolding Hands Them Lemons, Developers Make Lemon Trees
NY Times
Under billowing, cloudlike fabric stretching the length of a football field, fake lemon trees with purple-and-blue trunks sprout from AstroTurf. Lemon slices the size of cafe tabletops are scattered about like oversize stone pavers, and knee-high plants bear halves of the citrus fruit cast in fiberglass resin.
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Touchless Taco Bell could be the future of drive-thrus
Axios
Late-night munchies will be a little easier to satisfy for mobile customers at Taco Bell’s new touchless drive-thru restaurant coming to Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Why it matters: When you’re hungry, you want your food NOW. Flashback: Axios’ crack local reporters in Minneapolis-St. Paul already flagged plans for this prototype fast-food joint back in February, pointing out its odd resemblance to a bank branch. Details: The “Taco Bell Defy” restaurant will open in the summer of 2022….
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Top of the Morning
Axios
With everything going up and to the right, it’s only fitting that corporate venture capital investments did too during the past quarter. What’s happening: Global CVC-backed funding reached $79 billion across 2,099 deals in the first half of 2021 — more than the $74 billion invested in all of 2020, according to new CB Insights data. Between the lines: Corporate VCs can be large check writers thanks to their parent companies’ large balance sheets, making them hefty players wh…
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Cities Are Starting To Move On Proof Of Vaccination. Many Bars And Restaurants Aren’t Waiting
Bisnow
Restaurants, bars, gyms and other places where people gather are getting behind requiring proof of vaccination because they want employees and customers to stay healthy. And because they want their businesses to stay healthy.
