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Wall Street Journal
Commercial property firm Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. announced Wednesday its intent to acquire artificial intelligence startup Skyline AI Inc., in the latest example of how the technology is increasingly being used to gain a competitive advantage in the real-estate industry. …
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Chain Store Age
The e-commerce platform has opened Shopify New York, a two-story, 8,000-sq-ft. space in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood that is designed to serve as a place where existing and budding entrepreneurs will have the ability to attend workshops and events, get one-to-one support, book podcast and photography studio space, and sell in its pop-up shop.
JLL
Creating trust and transparency in the process of transacting resale residential homes Mumbai, 10 August 2021: JLL, India’s largest real estate consultancy firm today announced its entry into the country’s secondary residential market via a strategic partnership with Zapkey (a Propstack subsidiary). With this first-of-its-kind association, JLL aims to reach out to customers struggling to make a buy-side or a sell-side transaction in the rather unorganised secondary (resale) residential market…
Wall Street Journal
The owner of Saks Fifth Avenue is converting parts of department stores into co-working spaces with WeWork, a strategy that marries the popularity of remote work with the struggles of bricks-and-mortar retail.
The Real Deal
The Swiss-based conglomerate and WeWork rival has reached agreements to take up coworking space at 401 Park Avenue South and 14 Penn Plaza, Crain’s reported. The former will be under the Spaces brand and take up 63,000 square feet, while the latter will be under IWG’s Regus brand and occupy 28,000 square feet.
Housingwire
Cyber security, 5G, drones and virtual reality are the technological developments expected to have the biggest impact on real estate in the next two years, according to a National Association of Realtors survey. The survey also found that 36% percent of agents spend $50-$250 per month on technology, while 23% spend more than $500. The figures released Tuesday stem from 3,104 online responses to a June survey of NAR members. About 1.4 million real estate agents – the vast majority of U.S. home sa…
HqO
Annual Awards Program Recognizes Innovation in the Global Real Estate Technology Industry BOSTON – August 11, 2021 – HqO, the end-to-end tenant experience operating system for office buildings, today announced it has been selected as winner of the “PropTech Startup of the Year” award in the inaugural PropTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by PropTech Breakthrough, a leading independent market intelligence organization that evaluates and recognizes standout real estate technology c…
CREtech+
Marat Safir, Co-founder of TMG, gives advice to technology companies in the industry, and which market forces he is most mindful of when planning his technology roadmap.
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