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In a first-of-its-kind multifamily sector survey specifically examining technology, the NMHC/One11 Advisors Apartment Industry Technology Benchmarking Report is designed to establish an industry-wide baseline understanding of how apartment companies are supporting technology and innovation in their companies, as well as what challenges and opportunities they face as they deploy technology more ext...

Uber’s ambitious and quixotic effort to launch a flying taxi service is coming in for a landing. According to Axios, the ride-hailing company has agreed to sell its Uber Elevate division to secretive startup Joby Aviation.

Let’s say you want a hamburger. With a few taps on your phone—no onions, please—the order is placed, with delivery set for within the hour. Soon, your specially wrapped burger appears on the horizon, borne aloft by a humming drone.

Apartments have increasingly turned to technology to help navigate the pandemic, with operators implementing everything from electronic access control systems to Gen Z-friendly features such as smart thermostats and energy-efficient appliances.

As problematic as the tech industry's diversity statistics are, activists say the focus on those numbers overlooks a more fundamental problem — one less about numbers than about power. In tech, they argue, decision-making power remains largely concentrated in the hands of white men.

Modular construction isn't a new concept, but it still hasn't gained a foothold. For many developers and contractors working in the industry, that's a major missed opportunity. They attribute the lag on modular adoption to modular construction being misunderstood.

Catch up on the CREtech Consulting Talks webinar exploring effective sales strategy, marketing plans and content strategies for startup growth, as well as how to also avoid costly marketing and sales mistakes.

U.K. retail landlords are facing a hard reality: the rapid approval of a vaccine has come too late for thousands of their stores. The collapse of department store chain Debenhams Plc and Philip Green’s Arcadia Group this week caps an unremittingly brutal year for the owners of brick and mortar stores.

When the coronavirus first hit, hotels quickly adopted enhanced cleaning polices, including germ-killing electrostatic spraying and ultraviolet light exposure in guest rooms and public areas. But as research on virus spread has shifted focus from surface contact to airborne transmission, some hotels and cruise ships are scrubbing the very air travelers breathe with a variety of air filtration and ...

It's time to polish our gleaming vision of urban environments where internet technology makes everything from finding a parking space to measuring air quality a snap. The Biden administration's Cabinet appointees are likely to be champions of bold futurism in urban planning — which could mean that smart infrastructure projects, like broadband deployment and digital city services, get fresh fundi...