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  • RealtyAds Is Reinventing Property Marketing In Over 80 Markets

    RealtyAds

    Real estate has a problem, a big one. And no, it’s not what you’re thinking. Even before COVID-19 fundamentally rocked the world of real estate, owners and their brokers were still struggling to leverage low-cost, yet effective marketing tools that other industries have been using for years. In 2019, RealtyAds set out to change that. RealtyAds, a cloud-based software company headquartered in Chicago, is fundamentally reimagining how real estate assets communicate with the market. Their techno…

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  • How Blackstone built the perfect pandemic portfolio in real estate

    Fortune

    It was the moment Nadeem Meghji realized that the New Hollywood spelled magic for real estate. On a spring day in 2019, the chief of property investments in the Americas for private equity powerhouse Blackstone was gazing down from the rooftop terrace of the 14-story, avant-garde Netflix building on L.A.’s Sunset Boulevard—the streaming giant’s creative headquarters. The jammed parking lots, the parade of technicians, writers, actors, and producers rushing from office towers to low-slung stud…

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  • Tiger Global leads $30M investment into Briq, a fintech for the construction industry

    TechCrunch

    Briq, which has developed a fintech platform used by the construction industry, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Tiger Global Management.

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  • This Week’s N.Y. Deal Sheet

    Bisnow

    As a heat wave hit New York City, investment sales volume increased and financing deals continued to close, but leasing velocity was slower than in weeks prior despite a 200K SF office lease downtown.

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  • Croatia’s Gideon Brothers raises $31M for its 3D vision-enabled autonomous warehouse robots

    TechCrunch

    Proving that Central and Eastern Europe remains a powerhouse of hardware engineering matched with software, Gideon Brothers (GB), a Zagreb, Croatia-based robotics and AI startup, has raised a $31 million Series A round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), the venture and growth arm of Koch Industries Inc., with participation from DB Schenker, Prologis Ventures and Rite-Hite.

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  • Powercorp-backed online mortgage broker nesto raises $76 million

    Montreal in Technology

    nesto, the Montreal online mortgage broker, is raising $76 million in capital. The cash is coming from Michael Rowell and Michael Paulus, the entrepreneurs behind Insurance IQ. Portage Ventures, Diagram Ventures, Breyer Capital, Marc Alloul and others also participated in the round.

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  • 10 BIG IDEAS TO IMPROVE LIFE IN SMALL AND MIDSIZE CITIES

    The Wall Street Journal

    For those who want to know what the U.S. might look like in 20 years, a look at a handful of small and midsize cities offers clues. As mayors look to plug holes in their budgets, help people who lost their jobs or work to fix crumbling infrastructure, they are turning to ideas that would have been unthinkable a few decades ago. They are testing ambitious social programs including universal incomes and reparations, adding sensors to everything from sewers to streetlights, and testing self-driving…

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  • BUILT-TO-RENT SUBURBS ARE POISED TO SPREAD ACROSS THE U.S.

    The Wall Street Journal

    For some residents, the gated community in the Arizona desert is their first go at suburban living. The 222 houses have tile roofs, garages and white-fenced backyards where residents host barbecues and their dogs play. But these aren’t forever homes, or even starters: They are one- and two-bedroom rentals, with rents starting at $1,420 a month.

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  • NO PARKING: CITIES RETHINK GARAGES FOR A WORLD WITH FEWER PERSONAL CARS

    The Wall Street Journal

    What would cities do if they didn’t need so many parking spaces? Architects, urban planners and parking industry experts are now imagining a future in which parking garages are turned into commercial kitchens, fitness centers and transportation hubs where driverless taxis recharge between trips. Parking structures whose sloping floors make them hard to repurpose would be candidates for the wrecking ball, clearing the way for green spaces or new development….

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  • Savills Enhances Real Estate Solutions for Life Science and Technology Companies with Acquisition of US Firm T3 Advisors

    Savills

    NEW YORK (June 11, 2021) – In a strategic move as it continues expanding its North American business, global real estate advisory firm Savills has announced the acquisition of T3 Advisors (T3), which will rebrand as T3 Advisors, A Savills Company. T3, the leading real estate and workplace solutions advisor to many of the world’s most innovative companies, has become the consultant of choice for life sciences and technology firms seeking unbiased, holistic, and strategic advice on all aspects of …

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