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In recent years, the tech industry has pledged billions of dollars to fund affordable housing developments in its back yard. These funds are championed by companies such as Google, Facebook, Salesforce and Microsoft as a way to remedy the housing crisis that is driven in part by these companies’ explosive growth and wealth creation.

You couldn’t dream up a worse kind of crisis for co-living than the coronavirus pandemic. For a sector that sells itself on bringing people together, a virus that means we have to stay away from each other is a nightmare. Yet pushing against the fe...

It’s no secret that the hospitality industry has been hit hard by Covid-19, which has forced many hotels to temporarily close and others to permanently shutter. But one type of hospitality property is faring better than others: extended stay hotels and residences.

The 61st-floor terrace of the Chrysler Building, the Jazz Age wonder of the New York skyline, is studded with massive steel eagles. On a misty October night, Aby Rosen, the German-born investor who’s redeveloping the building, leans against a railing beside one of the birds. It’s beginning to drizzle, but Rosen, who has long white hair and alert blue eyes, is in an ebullient mood.

Man GPM has agreed a £31m deal with modular housing company ilke Homes for a 14.6-acre site in Grantham that has detailed planning consent for 227 homes. The deal will see the delivery of an affordable and inclusive mixed tenure modular housing community on Dysart Road in Grantham.

Using IoT sensors, video cameras and social media, smart cities could help to improve the lives of their citizens drastically in many ways.

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated what we anticipated would be the future of work: the hybrid workplace. Employees who can work independently now expect the flexibility to work from anywhere even post-pandemic. In a recent JLL survey,