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Upflex’s Christophe Garnier caught up with Michael Beckerman, CEO of CREtech — the largest global consulting, media and conference company devoted to technological innovation in real estate — about the real estate industry’s disproportionate impact on the climate crisis, and where he sees the biggest opportunities to turn the ship around.
Coming off a staggering bull run, the U.S. residential real estate market is still holding up at high levels. Even so, market watchers see the combination of higher mortgage rates and diminishing affordability likely signaling a close to the era of fast-rising prices.
Tenants have something in common at Common Living’s communal spaces: nightmarish experiences, according to a published report.
More than a dozen tenants went on the record to describe their experiences at Common buildings across the country, the Daily Beast reported. Alleged issues include unaddressed vomit, fighting roommates, poor communication, lengthy maintenance delays and lax security.
The few dozen steps spanning the length of a new studio unit at Domain Heights incorporate a veritable check, check, check of what developers have billed as the amenity-heavy future of apartment living.
Shopify put a spotlight on the role and significance of logistics and fulfillment in e-commerce when it snapped up Deliverr for $2.1 billion last week to gain its own, direct foothold into providing those services for its e-commerce customers a la Amazon. Now, an up-and-coming startup in fulfillment in Europe has closed a round of funding to fuel its own growth. Byrd, which is building a network o...
IKEA is to invest €3 billion, about $3.16 billion, in opening city-center stores and outfitting existing big-box locations to act as distribution hubs for online orders as the furniture giant looks to adapt to changing shopping habits.
In the last two years, BetaKit has reported on massive #CDNtech funding rounds leading to billion-dollar valuations. Here’s an interview with the Canadian VC who says those numbers are meaningless.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky recently announced that the company’s employees will be able to work from anywhere, including (for up to three months) overseas. He also abolished location -based pay, at least within the U.S. In the days following the announcement, Airbnb’s recruiting page received a million visitors. The company, which laid off a quarter of its staff during the pandemic, also released...
Companies throughout the U.S. are flooding the market with office space they want to sublease, aggravating landlords already facing weak demand as more tenants embrace hybrid work.
Flexible office space is coming back into the fold. After a rocky year leading up to the pandemic, flexible office space is once again spiking in popularity with the growing prevalence for remote and hybrid work, In short, it is becoming an important part of an office portfolio.