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Catie McKee was nervous. It was last October, and the 31-year-old hedge fund analyst, who had been scrutinizing the mortgages on the nation’s malls, was convinced that some of those malls would default on their loans. She and her colleagues had even bet a substantial amount of money on that likelihood.
This summer, executives at health-care-technology firm Epic Systems announced a plan: Most of the 9,500 employees at its 1,000-acre campus in Wisconsin would be expected back in the office in September. The company, like many others, says its employees do their best work when they can collaborate in the same space. But blowback to the mandate was swift. Employees expressed fears about
Homebuying and selling platform HomeLight acquired listings manager Disclosures.io to launch a new offering called HomeLight Listing Management. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. San Francisco-based Disclosures.io raised about $120,000 since its inception in ...
Eden Health, a telemedicine company founded in 2015, raised $25 million in Series B financing, in part to expand its partnerships with commercial real estate firms through virtual and in-person health consultations. The funding round—which was led by Flare Capital Partners, with participation from Greycroft, Aspect Ventures, and other investors—places Eden Health’s valuation close to $100 mi...
Nimbus Therapeutics used to cater lunch for its entire staff three times a week at its Cambridge, Mass., headquarters—a hip place where the taxidermied office moose has its own Instagram account. Employees got plenty of branded swag, and enjoyed perks such as company-paid spa treatments.
Mall owner Simon Property Group is pursuing an unorthodox business strategy, smashing the foundation of the traditional industry model on the one hand while trying to glue certain elements of it back together with the other. Simon has been in talks with Amazon.com
Commercial real estate brokers and market experts believe the coronavirus has fundamentally shifted the leasing market to unfamiliar territory, and it is time to begin thinking about creative ways to reposition retail, restaurant, hotel and office properties that are at risk of losing tenants permanently.
Breaking into Silicon Valley has become an even taller order for first-time entrepreneurs during the coronavirus pandemic. Seed financing—the earliest stage of startup investing and the start of many technology success stories—has borne the brunt of the pandemic’s hit on the venture-capital sector, data shows. While established startups and entrepreneurs have been able to tap investors to ke...
Workers are returning to the UK’s flexible offices more slowly than in other European countries, new data shows. Building occupancy in UK flexible offices is just 23%, according to survey data from Workthere, the flexible office advisory division of Savills. That compares to 35% in Spain, 43% in Ireland, 55% in Germany and 57% in the Netherlands. The survey looked at the proportion of people tu...