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Investors and CRE professionals have begun understanding the near- and long-term implications of the global pandemic on real estate assets and on their portfolios. As leading investors begin to reactivate their investment strategies, many are instituting new standards to invest smarter, increase productivity, and grow their business — resulting in better financials, communication, and management...

Nearly a year after the spread of the coronavirus was declared a pandemic and office workers turned their homes into their workplaces to curb the spread of the virus, the great work-from-home experiment has proved that the trend will at least in part become a fixture of our society.

Coming from startups, large enterprises and everything in between, we know how hard it can be to create meaningful change. We also recognize silos exist across the real estate, technology, and public sectors, and important voices are being left out of the conversations. That’s why we founded Proptech Collective. We see these challenges as an opportunity to come together to find better solutions ...

The proposals contain key changes to current practices. They include: the ability to boost fresh air rates by 50%; additional ventilation requirements for spaces such as corridors and lift lobbies; a purge ventilation requirement of four air changes per hour for all spaces; and a means of in-use air quality. Along with protecting against the current and future pandemics, there’s potential for th...

The pandemic is compelling a number of co-working firms to discard original business models, or accelerate the adoption of a new one, with the broader office market under threat. The original strategy, popularized by WeWork and many of its peers, involved leasing as much office space in city centers as possible, and then effectively subletting it to companies for a profit. This approach led to spe...

The VC-backed real estate tech company Matterport, which designs software that allows virtual walkthroughs, is the latest firm to explore going public via a blank-check company. The company is in talks to list via a merger with Gores Holding VI, a special-purpose acquisition company founded late last year by investment firm the Gores Group, Bloomberg News reported. The companies