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brandonlin September 29, 2021
A blockchain entrepreneur, with the help of a former real estate i-banker, will mint the world’s first virtual property REIT in October. It could be listed on a public exchange as soon as next year. Tokens.com, a publicly traded company based in Toronto that facilitates investment in digital assets, signed a letter of intent to buy a 50% stake in a portfolio of digital real estate owned by Me...
brandonlin September 29, 2021
The US Green Building Council last week marked a significant milestone, surpassing 1bn sq ft of commercial buildings recertified around the world under the LEED green rating system.
brandonlin September 29, 2021
David Schwarts of Waterton examines the ‘technological mindset’ that he encourages within the company, and how he believes this to be one of the keys to his success.
brandonlin September 29, 2021
Hot on the heels of the rise in remote working, investors have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into businesses promising to introduce the same kind of flexibility into the home.
brandonlin September 29, 2021
CREtech, the world’s leading community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, and HqO, the premier end-to-end tenant experience provider for office buildings, today announced that HqO is...
brandonlin September 28, 2021
The biggest U.S. companies are sitting on record piles of cash. They are getting paid next to nothing for holding it, and they are running out of ways to spend it. So they are buying a lot of commercial real estate.
Google’s announcement last week that it would purchase 
brandonlin September 28, 2021
When Mayor Bill de Blasio announced earlier this month that the city’s 300,000 municipal employees had to return to the office five days a week on September 13, many city workers panicked. Parents scrambled to line up child care. The immunocompromised rushed to put in requests to continue to work remotely. And people across all departments, from entry-level employees to senior management, began ...
brandonlin September 28, 2021
Sustainability initiatives may be all the rage, but an increasing number of scandals among high-profile startups and highly-valued corporate behemoths is underscoring the role governance plays in corporate health and due diligence. As WeWork prepares to go public next month via a SPAC wi...
brandonlin September 28, 2021
If you find yourself with a batch of lemons, the wise move is to make lemonade. What if you’ve got hotel properties in a down hospitality market? Luckily, you’ve got some choices. For example, California-based Vivo Living, which turns hotels into multifamily properties, announced at the beginning of September that it opened its tenth “boutique efficiency apartment” complex. They come...
brandonlin September 28, 2021
Nexar is partnering with Nevada public road transit authorities to create digital twins to reduce traffic and improve safety. In effect, crowdsourced dashcam image data is used to feed digital twins that represent virtual models of road work. The partnership is another sign of consumer dashcam maker Nexar’s pivot to AI-infused digital twin-as-a-service offeri...