Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
Wall Street Journal
Leslie D. Hale made history as the first African-American woman to lead a public real-estate investment trust. Today, a little more than two years later, this industry club of female Black chief executives still has just one member.
Business Insider
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said last week that the company was making changes to its physical spaces to better support employees in a future Pichai said would include “hybrid models” of work.
Fifth Wall
Episode 29 of Fly on the Wall kicks off a three-part series with Andy Cohen, Co-CEO of the innovative, leading design firm Gensler. In Part I of the series, Brendan and Andy discuss current pandemic-influenced sociological shifts and how they will impact both the layout of our cities and the design of our buildings. Andy also explores how the pandemic will affect the way we work – from the flexible layout of our office buildings to the notion of the five day work week – and why company c…
Bisnow
Technologies that people take for granted today, such as smartphones or Google Maps, have fundamentally changed the way the real estate industry does business. The next technology that could transform the industry, multiple proptech experts say, is augmented reality glasses.
Wall Street Journal
Blackstone Group Inc., BX 2.45% one of the world’s largest owners of real estate, is making a new commitment to cut its carbon footprint. The investment firm has set a goal of reducing carbon emissions by 15% within the first three years of buying any asset or company across its portfolio. The initiative will begin in 2021 and will apply to new investments where Blackstone controls the energy systems….
The Real Deal
Spencer Rascoff is co-chairing a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC), also known as a blank-check company, that will be seeking to invest in a tech unicorn and take it public, according to Inman.
The New York Times
When Amazon’s chief executive, Jeff Bezos, promised in 2013 that drones would soon be flying everywhere delivering packages, a miniature camera whirring through homes and recording video was probably not what people envisioned.
Departures
Paris-based studio Rescubika just released a proposal for a new building in New York City that would both make a mark architecturally and environmentally. The 2,400-foot-tall tower would actually trap carbon emissions, reducing the carbon in the atmosphere….
CREtech
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Bloomberg
Working from home, once jokingly dismissed as “shirking” from home, is back as a pandemic lifeline for economies amid a resurgence of Covid-19 cases in Europe. Governments in Britain and France, having goaded workers back to the office after lockdown, are now urging them home again. The sound of frustrated bosses gritting their teeth can be heard across the City of London, as big firms from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to Citigroup Inc. pause the back-to-work push while keeping the office open. …
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