Office Owners: Do Your Own Fit-Out. Get Better Rents. Help Save The Planet

Lateral, which is run by brothers Rob and Nick Beacroft and former CLS director Robert Crawley, is fitting out an office building in London and a life sciences building in Oxford to “category A+” standard. That designation means space is fully equipped with both furniture and mechanical and engineering features, and it is ready for a tenant to move in almost immediately….

A Sculptural Skyscraper for Chicago

Do not confuse the shape of a fashionable residential tower with the artistic line drawn by an architect. It is the line of truce after a battle. A developer fights to expand his territory, his holy volume of rentable space, and the architect pushes back, trying to carve and sculpt that volume, and to make it beautiful. The developer wins, of course, giving us the box with an all-glass skin that is the industry standard of high-rise housing.

BCV Leads $35M Series B In Properly: Canada’s One-Stop-Shop For Home Buying And Selling

Amid unprecedented housing demand in the US, a familiar story is taking hold in Canada: rapidly rising prices, record high home values, heated bidding wars, and preemptive all-cash offers. Remarkably, Canadian home values have grown 39% over the last five years and 81% over the last decade. Would-be buyers have grown increasingly frustrated by rising prices and they have fewer digital home-buying tools than their US neighbors, making the purchase process stressful….

Is CRE technology doing enough for building operations and property management?

On behalf of one of our CREtech Consulting clients, we are conducting a short survey (~5 min) for property owners to better understand the building operations and property management technology landscape. Your responses will remain strictly confidential of course and we will send you the key takeaways and results from the survey shortly after.

Ransomware imperils title, mortgage industry

Ransomware attackers hit major title industry cloud services provider Cloudstar, stopping an untold number of loans from closing on Monday. The ramifications for the title and mortgage industry may extend beyond the immediately impacted loan applications. Late Monday afternoon, Cloudstar’s services were still offline. In a statement, Cloudstar said it had already brought on third-party experts to assist in recovery efforts, and had already alerted law enforcement. The company declined to p…

HqO Debuts EXPERIENCE Conference at CREtech New York in October 2021

New York, NY (July 22, 2021) — CREtech, the world’s leading community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, and HqO, the premier end-to-end tenant experience provider for office buildings, today announced that HqO is debuting its marquee conference EXPERIENCE this fall at CREtech New York. Open to CREtech New York attendees and other CRE leaders, the HqO EXPERIENCE event is focused entirely on tenant experience. With fundamental changes to the traditi…

Real estate tech startup alternative housing group secures US$1.1 million in seed funding

Within its first year of operations, Philippine real estate tech startup and prop tech incubator Alternative Housing Group (AHG) has secured a seed funding amounting to P55 million (US$1.1 million) — fueling growth through an asset-light business model and gearing up towards building new technological innovations in real estate. The funding round was led by Foxmont Capital Partners, a Philippine venture capital fund that invested in homegrown Filipino startups such as Kumu, Edukasyon.ph, Booky, …

Retail real estate trade group grapples with post-pandemic landscape, changes name

The biggest global trade association for the retail real estate industry is rebranding to update its image amid massive changes in the way people shop.

The International Council of Shopping Centers announced Monday its initials ICSC will now stand for Innovating Commerce Serving Communities. ICSC said the changes have been about nine months in the making.

SmartRent Optimizes Access Control Systems With Launch of Smart Intercom and Alloy Access Solo

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., July 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — SmartRent, an enterprise smart home and smart building technology platform for real estate owners, managers, and residents, today unveiled its own in-house intercom offering. The new Smart Intercom can be installed on any building entry point, such as lobby doors or perimeter gates….

CAPE Analytics Raises $44 Million, Led by Pivot Investment Partners

Today, CAPE Analytics, the leading provider of geospatial intelligence for property risk and valuation, announced $44 million in Series C financing, led by Pivot Investment Partners. Additional investors, Aquiline Technology Growth and HSCM Bermuda also joined the Series C round, with across-the-board participation from existing investors, including Formation8 and Brewer Lane Ventures, as well as many funds associated with insurance carriers, including State Farm Ventures, The Hartford, State Au…