Open & Agile Smart Cities partners with AWS to help cities share open data

‘We Have To Rip The Band-Aid Off’: The Great NYC Hotel Reawakening Is On

More than a year ago, hundreds of New York City’s hotels shut their doors, putting thousands out of work and plunging the sector into an acute crisis. But many are taking their first steps toward reopening after months of dormancy as cautious optimism overshadows lagging rates and desperately low occupancy. …

Uber vets raise $12.5M for real estate property management startup Doorstead

New funding: Doorstead, a San Francisco real estate property management startup founded by former Uber employees, raised a $12.5 million Series A round led by Seattle firm Madrona Venture Group.

Real Estate’s Oversimplification Of Net-Zero Is A Problem

“It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth,” French revolutionary thinker Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in the 18th century. This idea of clinging to the simple instead of the correct in all its complexities could apply to how real estate is going about cutting carbon emissions.

NOW LIVE! Your Tech is Only as Good as Your Data, Part 3

In Part 3 of Your Tech is Only as Good of Your Data, Raj Bhatti, Chief Information Officer at NKF, sheds light on how client expectations are shaping his technology strategy, and how cross-platform technology will transform the future of CRE.

Elliman’s property management arm suffers data breach

Douglas Elliman Property Management’s three managing directors emailed hundreds of co-operative and condominium boards Monday to advise them that the company’s IT network — which contains data for its buildings’ residents and employees — was breached and their personal information may have been compromised.

Is Boston Dynamics becoming a boring robotics company?

Boston Dynamics has made a name for itself through fascinating videos of biped and quadruped robots doing backflips, opening doors, and dancing to “Uptown Funk.” Now, it has revealed its latest gadget: a robot that looks like a huge overhead projector on wheels.

Sacramento’s sustainable mobility hub gets the green light

New Carbon Markets Could Drive the Land Market

There has been a lot of speculation about the Biden administration’s focus on climate and how that will impact commercial real estate. As Jake Fingert, general partner at Camber Creek and a former member of the National Economic Council during the Obama administration points out, much of the focus has been about reducing energy use in buildings. For example, there could be a strong push to move from heating oil to electric.

Knox Financial raises $10M to take the pain out of being a landlord

We’ve all heard the phrase “passive income” to describe how people can make money by owning rental properties. Many Americans would love to passively earn money, but the process of becoming a landlord can be intimidating and complicated.