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Last month, a record-breaking transaction — a $2.5M sale of 116 parcels of "land" in Decentraland, a leading metaverse platform that launched in 2017 — underscored the influx of real-world investors and brokers in the market.
Typically, problems come before solutions and the real estate sector certainly has a number of problems. It is one of the most carbon-intensive sectors, accounting for 38% of total global greenhouse gas e...
A group of pioneers worried about climate change and encroaching sea levels have created a buoyant neighborhood, where homes share electricity via a local smart grid and bob with the tied thanks to steel foundation poles that allow them to rise and fall, the Washington Post reports.
In 2002, my dad, Martin Doctoroff, died of ALS. At the time, we thought it was a tragic fluke, as is the case with the vast majority of ALS patients. But when his brother, Mike, was diagnosed in 2008, it was clear the disease wasn’t random. Ever since then, my fami...
Clear Secure Inc., an identification services company known for its expedited screening product for air travelers, is bringing its biometric sign-up scanners to locations beyond airports. The company has temporarily installed the biometrics machines this month inside a Showfields Inc. interactive mall ...
One of the biggest challenges of our age is climate risk — an increase in average temperature of only a few degrees will lead to a catastrophic cascade of effects, resulting in built-world destruction, extreme weather, and enormous loss of human life. It’s therefore imperative that every industry accept its responsibility to decrease its carbon footprints with a tremendous sense of urgency.
Karen Whitt, President of Real Estate Management Services at Colliers, discusses the ways in which augmented reality are changing the way we interact with and generate income from the built world.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch is reporting that Virginia’s capital city will get a new tallest building when CoStar Group, a commercial real estate analytics and research firm, expands its James River campus with a 26-story skyscraper.
If you’ve ever had to apply for a mortgage, you know that it can be a time-consuming, expensive and often painful process — both in terms of just filling out the application and then waiting for the transaction to close.