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Just nine months ago, Masayoshi Son publicly declared Ritesh Agarwal one of the star entrepreneurs backed by his SoftBank Group Corp. The Japanese billionaire boasted that Agarwal’s Oyo Hotels & Homes was poised to overtake the biggest hotel chains in the world just a few years after its founding. “It’s unim...
Commercial real estate firms are rapidly trying to shed their tech-averse nature as they adapt to mandated social distancing, creating a demand surge for proptech companies that allow prospective tenants to tour spaces virtually.
Home-grown success story CrowdStreet, which has pioneered a path for individual investors to band together and acquire prime commercial real estate assets nationwide, has passed a staggering $1 billion milestone in total online investments.
Bisnow has a new podcast chronicling how members of the commercial real estate industry are dealing with the impact of the current global health crisis. The economic impacts are vast, and it is forcing businesses to adapt and make difficult decisions.
It’s as if co-working giant WeWork absorbed the initial jolt of a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and continues to be rocked by aftershocks. In August, WeWork’s New York City-based parent company filed for an IPO. But only a month later, co-founder Adam Neumann stepped down as CEO and the company y...
Earlier today, to get a sense of what’s happening in the land of venture capital, the law firm Fenwick & West hosted a virtual roundtable discussion with New York investors Hadley Harris, a founding general partner with Eniac Ventures; Brad Svrluga, a co-founder and general partner of Primary Ventures; and Ellie Wheeler, a partner wi...
It was just a few months ago that Zillow was being asked every five minutes to place an offer on someone's home. Demand was such that the listings giant - which historically made money off agent advertising - jumped headfirst into instant homebuying in 2018 and shifted its entire business model a year later.
Don’t worry, CREtech isn’t going anywhere nor is our industry ? In fact, I have no doubt that my company and our industry as a whole will emerge from this pandemic stronger, wiser and positioned for an entirely new era of innovation in the real estate industry.
On April 2, the day that coronavirus infections around the globe hit 1 million, managers inside JPMorgan Chase & Co. were emailing their latest plans for staffing New York-area trading floors amid the deadly pandemic.