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brandonlin September 22, 2021
Apartment communities traditionally have had a designated leasing office and prevalent on-site teams. But a shift is emerging in renter preferences and the multifamily mindset on what apartment leasing and living could be. As owners and operators are learning that prospects and residents have become much more comfortable with self-service concepts, they are switching gears to accommodate these pre...
brandonlin September 22, 2021
Industry Heavyweights Equity Residential, Hudson Pacific Properties, Invitation Homes, Ivanhoé Cambridge, and Kimco Realty Corporation join the largest-ever real estate industry consortium to invest in climate tech to decarbonize the real estate industry
brandonlin September 21, 2021

Mynd, a company that aims to make it easier for people to buy and manage single-family rental properties, announced today it has raised $57.3 million in funding from QED Investors.

The financing values the Oakland, California-based company at $807 million, and brings the company’s total raised to $174.9 million since its 2016 incep...
brandonlin September 21, 2021
French scaleup Saqara is a digital construction and infrastructure bid management platform. In a recent development, the digital procurement platform just raised $10.6 million in the largest French Series A fundraising round.
brandonlin September 21, 2021
Blueground, a startup focused on short-term furnished apartment rentals, raised $140 million in equity funding from investors led by Laurence Tosi’s WestCap Group, an existing backer. Geolo Capital, an investment arm of billionaire John Pritzker’s family office, also participated, as did VentureFriends and Prime Ventures, Blueground Chief Executive Officer Alex Chatzieleftheriou said in an int...
brandonlin September 21, 2021
Tune in to our exclusive webinar celebrating the upcoming book launch of Dr. Parag Khanna’s MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us. Greg Lindsay, Director of Applied Research at NewCities and CREtech Climate Leadership Board Member, will join Khanna to look at the forces, such as the climate crisis and disruptive technologies, that are producing the next mass migrations. These two highly regarded futu...
brandonlin September 21, 2021

New York, one of the most powerful real estate centers in the world, felt the wrath of a changing climate as the remnants of Hurricane Ida crept up the East Coast two weeks ago.

With mostly small and midsized landlords in some of the hardest-hit areas of the city left to foot a huge bill to recover from the storm, the industry is putting pressure on the government to...

brandonlin September 21, 2021
Going forward, only 24% of employees will be permanently based in an office and working at a single desk. 58% will either be pure WFH or hybrid workers. For many, today’s digital transformation priorities look very different when compared to priorities pre-pandemic.
brandonlin September 21, 2021
Geoffrey Kasselman of CRG takes a practical approach to incorporating technology that will have the biggest impact and ROI.
brandonlin September 21, 2021
Arcadia, the climate-crisis-fighting technology company unlocking nationwide access to energy data and renewable...