Miguel McKelvey is leaving WeWork, the embattled office-sharing company he helped found in 2010. McKelvey was one of the few remaining executives at WeWork following its failed attempt to go public and ...
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One couple was from the Northeast, empty-nesters. They were visiting Miami and wanted to look at homes. They were very unfamiliar with Miami and really didn’t know the neighborhoods at all. Obviously, in the middle of a pandemic it’s an impossible situation. Miami-Dade County has all kinds of ordinances. So I said, “Why don’t you meet me at this area in North Grove. I can’t really get yo...
Andy Cohen co-leads Gensler, a global giant in the architecture world with 6,000 employees across 18 countries and 24 practice areas, with Diane Hoskins. Though design work has been impacted, the coronavirus pandemic has been a busy time for him: Beyond checking in with 67,000 clients in 10 weeks, his team has been crafting open-source guides to get back to the office safely, and Cohen has been a...
From January until mid-May, four- and five-star office space represented 49% of gross leasing activity, representing a 3% jump compared to previous years. Lower-quality buildings attracted an even smaller share of new deals than in previous years, according to new data from CoStar Group.
The United States is experiencing a "reckoning" over race, justice and inequality that has been decades in the making, fintech CEO Ryan Williams told CNN Business. "We've been hallucinating as a country for a long time," said Williams, the 32-year-old African Americ...
CrowdStreet, a Portland company that funds commercial real estate developments through its website, laid off 24 of its 110 employees Monday. The coronavirus outbreak has thrown the commercial real estate sector into tumult, with most office workers doing their jobs remotely and the broader economy heading sharpl...
An online plank-holding contest. Walk-and-talk meetings held outdoors via Zoom. A companywide game show based on Netflix’s “Love Is Blind,” capped with a virtual dance party. American companies are experimenting with new ways to replicate the camaraderie that once defined day-to-day life inside an office as a ...
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Swivel has released a new SaaS-based leasing application to help commercial real estate leasing teams keep food on the table and the lights on at the office — and maybe at home. The Austin company released AgileView recently, which Swivel says helps office space landlords and leasing teams “transform traditional leasing processes to digital to ensure leasing velocity during the pandemic.”
Betterview, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a software platform for P&C insurance carriers, raised $7.5m in funding. The round, which brought total capital raised to date to $17m, was led by ManchesterStory with participation from Guidewire Software, Nationwide, EMC Insurance Companies, MaidenRe, Compound, Winklevoss Capital, and...