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Fast Company
When it opens up to tenants later this month, the Ascent, a 25-story, $125 million luxury high-rise in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will offer an array of swanky amenities, including an indoor dog track and spa, electric car chargers, and a golf simulator.
Travel Daily News
limehome, Europe’s technology provider for the hospitality industry and operator of fully digitalised design flats, will open a third location this summer in Eindhoven, in the Dutch region of Brabant, following Amsterdam and The Hague. Eindhoven is considered the design capital of the Netherlands. On the former gasworks site in the centre of the city, a new urban quarter will be built this summer, combining living, working and culture. limehome will build ten design flats with their own outdo…
PlaceTech
More than three-quarters of projects tracked by the American Institute of Architects have used building simulations to cut predicted energy use. As part of the AIA’s 2030 Commitment, which calls for all new developments and major renovations to reach carbon neutrality by 2030, architects around the world submit their portfolios with emissions-related metrics.
Letting Agent Today
Home set-up service Just Move In has announced a huge fund-raise of £4m. The service boasts Hamptons, Openrent, and Pickfords amongst and says it makes moving in and out of a home easier — whether you’re renting or buying — via a platform to manage activities, from setting up the broadband and informing the council of the new address, to recommending removals and storage companies.
GlobeSt
In the face of worries about a potential recession, layoff news, which had fallen from daily attention since the worst of the pandemic, is back. That’s particularly true in the once-thought-invulnerable tech sector. Layoffs are back in force and among corporate royalty: Netflix, Meta (formerly known as Facebook), Tesla, Coinbase, PayPal, Uber, Peloton, and Carvana. Companies with big backing, big sales, and now, big worries.
CREtech
CREtech, the world’s leading community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, has announced Sonny Kalsi, Co-CEO, BentallGreenOak, will deliver a Keynote Presentation at CREtech’s flagship conference, CREtech New York, this October 12-13, 2022. Sonny’s Keynote Presentation will take place on the Main Stage on the first day of the conference. BentallGreenOak (BGO) is a leading, global real estate investment management advisor and a globally recognized pr…
Axios
General Motors-backed Cruise got the green light from California regulators last week to operate a commercial robotaxi service in San Francisco, marking a watershed moment in the autonomous vehicle rollout. Why it matters: AV developers have spent tens of billions of dollars trying to develop and commercialize self-driving technology. While Cruise is still a fledgling business, its for-pay driverless taxi service will be the first in a densely populated U.S. city when it launches within the n…
Forbes
Over the past two years, while droves of Americans began working remotely and mortgage rates hit historic lows, home sales spiked, creating a rising tide for real estate-focused companies. Now that interest rates and concerns about a looming recession are rising, the real estate market is cooling. But in an industry that’s still dominated by slow processes and dated systems, opportunities abound for creating better financial services through technology….
PYMNTS.com
Construction industry change order communication platform Extracker finalized a $7 million oversubscribed Series A fundraising round that it will use to broaden the availability of its software, according to a Wednesday (June 8) company press release. Cloud Apps Capital Partners led the funding effort for Extracker, which digitizes manual workflows and creates financial transparency between construction stakeholders, with participation from construction tech platform Building Ventures and pre…
The Wall Street Journal
A former senior executive at Better.com alleged in a lawsuit that the online mortgage lender misled investors in financial filings and other representations it made as it attempts to go public. Sarah Pierce, Better.com’s former executive vice president for sales and operations, alleged in the suit that Chief Executive Vishal Garg and the company misrepresented Better.com’s business and prospects to keep investors onboard with a planned merger with a special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. …
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