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There is nothing obviously wrong with Maine’s biggest city. Its shops buzz in the summer with well-heeled tourists. Zillow rates the real estate market “very hot.” David Geffen’s yacht docks at port from time to time. The food scene is great. In November, the unemployment rate was barely 2.2 percent.

Something is troubling ...

Cadre, the technology-driven real estate investment platform, has hired former Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts CEO Allen Smith as president. A well-known real estate executive, Smith left Four Seasons, which operates luxury hotels, in 2018 after running the prominent consumer-facing brand for five years. He previously worked as the CEO of Prudential Real Estate Inve...

Gabi, a San Francisco-based home and auto insurance company, raised $27m in Series B funding. The round was led by Mubadala Capital with participation from Canvas Ventures, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Securian Ventures, A.Capital Ventures, Project A, CMFG Ventures, Burst Capital, and AngelList. The company intends to use the funds to continue to ex...

As Airbnb gets ready to go public, a startup called Neighbor is looking to breathe new life into the rapidly maturing sharing economy. The Lehi, Utah-based company, which operates a peer-to-peer self-storage platform, announced on Thursday a $10 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. In addition to the new funding, Neighbor has amassed some sharing economy bona fides. A16z managing partner ...

CREtech (cretech.com), a leading global conference and research company devoted to innovation in the Built World, has announced that CBRE President and CEO Bob Sulentic and Chief Digital & Technology Officer Chandra Dhandapani will deliver the opening keynote conversation at its upcoming technology conference in Austin, Texas, on April 22.

Inside a warehouse on the outskirts of Berlin, a long line of blue crates moved down a conveyor belt, carrying light switches, sockets and other electrical parts. As they came to a stop, five workers picked through the small items, placing each one in a cardboard box.

At Obeta, an electrical parts company that opened in 1901, it is...

Jetty, the financial services company on a mission to make renting a home more affordable and effortless for everyone, today announced its exclusive national partnership with Cortland, one of the largest apartment owners and operators in the United States with more than 60,000 units across Ala...

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At the World Economic Forum in Davos last year, US company CityZenith unveiled an interactive, real-time simulation of the Indian city of Amaravati. A CityZenith video explained how “hundreds of IoT [internet of things] systems and public databases are consolidated into a single portal”, creating a “digital twin” of the city. The simulation allows users to monitor construction progress, t...

ProspectNow, the industry's leading provider of predictive analytics for commercial real estate, has entered into an agreement with KW Commercial to expand access to its database of over 100 million properties to over two thousand KW Commercial agents. “The expansion of ProspectNow in our firm provides yet another reason for commercial brokers to join KW Commercial,” said LesliAkers, presi...

Up until his retirement from the company in December, Hoopes had been the chief executive of San Francisco-based Swinerton since 2013. The commercial construction company named Eric Foster its 12th CEO earlier this month, Bisnow reported at the time.  Now, after 35 years with Swinerton, Hoopes steps in as a construction expert for Katerra, a self-described tech company intent on revolutioniz...