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With an economic downturn looming, the market is poised to shift in favor of buyers and renters. To navigate the changing commercial real estate market, your residential property management company must embrace technology and efficiently manage its costs and work...

The cities are analysed across nine dimensions considered key to truly sustainable cities. These are: human capital (developing, attracting and nurturing talent); social cohesion (consensus among the different social groups in a city); economy; environment; governance; urban planning; international projection; technology; and mobility and transportation (ease of movement and access to public servi...

CREtech (cretech.com) and FUTURE PropTech, the largest intelligence platforms devoted to Reimagining Real Estate, announced today that Christian Ulbrich, Global CEO at JLL, will take the stage for the Reimagining Real Estate Virtual Global Summit, the ...

Microsoft and Samsung today announced a global partnership to transform the real estate development and property management industries. This new collaboration involves Microsoft’s Azure IoT platform and productivity cloud services and Samsung’s smart devices and SmartThings platform. Both the companies will help optimize building operations, equipment maintenance, energy management, asset perf...

To get around Madrid, Javier Wassmann used to wake up in the morning, grab his smartphone and start searching car-sharing apps to find a ride to work. Then came the coronavirus. “Now I don’t want to use a car without knowing how long ago someone else was in it, if that person was wearing a mask or perhaps coughed on the steering wheel,” said the 37-year-old engineer in the Spanish capital, w...

Fifteen years before the coronavirus pandemic abruptly forced most companies to let employees work from home, Matt Mullenweg relied on a company without an office.

Lyric, a short-term rental startup that raised $180 million from Airbnb and other investors, has shuttered all but one of its locations, making it the latest travel company to be defeated by the Covid-19 pandemic. San Francisco-based Lyric will now shift focus to software tools including an existing pricing tool for accommodation, two people familiar with the matter tell Forbes. With the...

When Matt Wells returned to the office in mid-April, he was surprised to see a note pinned to a colleague’s cubicle urging people to keep their distance. “I thought it was an overreaction” to the coronavirus pandemic, he said. Now he has a note just like it on his cubicle. He also has strung a chain of paper clips across the opening to discourage visitors from stepping inside.

After aggressive cost-cutting measures, including mass layoffs and selling several of its businesses, WeWork’s  chairman expects the company to have positive cash flow in 2021. Marcelo Claure, who became WeWork’s chairman aft...