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.

Search

  • Apple Delays Office Return as Covid-19 Delta Variant Spreads

    The Wall Street Journal

    Apple Inc. is delaying its return to the office by at least a month as the Covid-19 Delta variant has led to a rise in infections and hospitalizations across the U.S. and world. The Cupertino, Calif.-based company told workers Monday that the planned return in September was being delayed until at least October, according to a person familiar with the notice. They were promised at least a month’s notice before being called back. Bloomberg News earlier reported the development.

    Read more

  • Biosafety Technology Company, R-Zero, Acquires Leading Workplace Intelligence Platform, CoWorkr

    Business Wire

    SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–R-Zero, the first biosafety technology company dedicated to creating safer, healthier indoor spaces, today announced its acquisition of CoWorkr, the leading property technology company offering privacy-first space utilization sensors for data-driven workplaces. Fresh off a Series B raise of $41.5 million, R-Zero’s first acquisition accelerates speed to market for an IoT sensor network that will provide critical real-time visibility and data insights, enabling int…

    Read more

  • Co-Living Artificial Intelligence Makes Everyone Friends

    Bisnow

    In the marketing photos, the immaculately dressed young professionalswho inhabit co-living look like they would never — could never — leave a dirty plate unwashed or a wet towel on the floor. But real life can be more challenging, and flatmates falling out is the co-living operator’s worst nightmare. Now tech-enabled ‘community psychology’ is being trialed in three Swedish co-living schemes in an effort to banish the bad dream, PlaceTech reported. And it could be making its way to the UK s…

    Read more

  • How Argo, Ford, and Lyft Will Scale Driverless Ride-Hailing in Miami, Austin and Beyond

    Ground Truth

    Today, Argo AI announced a new partnership with Lyft that will accelerate our deployment of Ford driverless vehicles for ride-hailing. Through this industry-first collaboration, companies with the three key aspects required to launch, validate and scale an autonomous ride-hailing service in cities are directly working together: the self-driving system developed by the Argo AI team; the vehicles manufactured by one of our partners, Ford Motor Company; and the riders on Lyft’s transportation ne…

    Read more

  • Pi Labs, Axeleo among Bright Spaces backers

    PlaceTech

    The end-to-end digital leasing platform has raised €1.5m from lead investor Axeleo Capital together with Pi Labs, Sparking Capital, Growceanu and strategic angel investors.

    Read more

  • Startups Bet on Flexible Apartment Leases, Even as Employees Return to the Office

    The Wall Street Journal

    Investors are pumping money into real-estate startups that are pioneering flexible ways to rent apartments on the belief that remote working trends and new forms of housing demand will remain long after the pandemic is over.

    Read more

  • HqO Debuts EXPERIENCE Conference at CREtech New York in October 2021

    CRETECH

    HqO Will Unpack the Future of the Office in Cutting-Edge Event Devoted Entirely to the Tenant Experience at Prestigious CREtech New York Conference on October 12 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 …

    Read more

  • Discover how Locatee is Providing Corporate Real Estate Managers Flexibility, Safety, and Greater Visibility into Building Occupancy

    The Real Deal

    It’s finally happening. After 16 months, people are peeling off the loungewear, suiting up, and cautiously stepping back into the long-abandoned office. A recent CNBC survey found that 45 percent of major US companies will be implementing a hybrid work model for the second half of 2021, while 32 percent are going right back to an in-person office mode. Regardless of the approach, employers and their employees will return to an office dynamic that has been changed forever….

    Read more

  • Commercial real estate lending startup Lev brings in $30M on a $130M valuation

    TechCrunch

    Commercial real estate has been slow to embrace technology; though it has an addressable financing market of more than $40 billion, putting together a deal is still mostly manual, paper-heavy and complicated.

    Read more

  • The pandemic-induced renaissance of malls

    Axios

    For the last decade or so, malls have been dying. Surprisingly, the pandemic may save them.

    Read more
<< < > >>

Join the Community

Subscribe to CREtech to get our monthly newsletter curated by our editors and special event discounts and announcements.


or if you're already a member

Login

Forgot password? Click here.

REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR EUROPE 2030: SHAPING THE FUTURE OF THE BUILT WORLD IN LONDON ON JULY 1, 2025

Register & Save
X