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JPMorgan cashed in almost $100 million of its stake in WeWork shortly before the company’s failed attempt to go public. The banking giant — a lead advisor on WeWork’s botched initial public offering effort — sold its shares last year, soon before the office giant descended in...
Owners of New York City’s largest office buildings are drawing up a plan for returning the city’s 1.5 million office workers to their desks. The Real Estate Board of New York — whose members own properties such as the Empire State Building, One World Trade Center and Rockefeller Center — is in discussions with state officials about guidelines for reopening the city, sources familiar with t...
A deal between Airbnb and RXR Realty that was touted as a “21st-century hospitality model” will never see the light of day. The short-term rental giant and the landlord are pulling the plug on a 10-floor residential rental conversion at 75 Rockefeller Plaza, according to Business Insider. The companies said last year that they would bring 200 hotel-style units to the 33-story office tower.
Have I already had COVID-19 exposure? Am I now potentially immune?
Bridgewater, NJ, April 26th, 2020: BackToWork Solutions’ high-volume employee antibody testing process is up and running! Employers are now providing their employees a potential path to reclaim their lives and return back to work.
Testing for immunity is l...
On Wednesday, April 22, Walker & Dunlop’s Chairman & CEO, Willy Walker, hosted our Walker Webcast with the CEO of Starwood Capital Group, Barry Sternlicht. Willy and Barry discussed the CRE market’s performance, touching on asset class performance across Starwood’s vast holdings and investments, the path forward for our country and economy, and where and when investment opportunities...
The nation’s largest real estate listings platform is allowing its employees to work from home for the rest of the year. “My personal opinions about WFH have been turned upside down over the past 2 months,” Rich Barton, CEO of Zillow, tweeted Friday. “I expect this will have a lasting influence on the future of work … and home. Stay safe.”
By the end of March, nearly two-thirds of knowledge workers were working remotely, according to an estimate from software company Netskope. A Colliers survey of people around the globe conducted around the same time found 82% of employees hope to work from home at least once a week after the pandemic.
NEW DELHI—Inexpensive motorcycles and scooters will make up the largest group of new vehicles hitting the world’s roads in the next decade—and a rapidly growing share of those bikes will be electric, say manufacturers and analysts.
In the wake of the global pandemic, today’s COVID-19 world has created significant challenges for commercial real estate professionals: real estate discovery will move online, collaborating online will be more common, office space will need redesign. Owners and brokers need solutions, tenants need guidance.
News that Magic Leap laid off half its staff and abandoned its consumer ambitions may sound like a nail in the coffin for the augmented reality industry. But the most well-funded startup in the space had struggled before the coronavirus pandemic, and there are signs that demand for AR and virtual reality...