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On the horizon is a massive wave of demand for apartments that stretches well into the future. In fact, the industry will have to build at least 328,000 new apartments each year just to keep up with demand for apartment living, according to recent research. However, anything being designed today won’t see its first resident for a couple of years—or more, depending on how knotted the process is...
As 2019 draws to a close, we wanted to take a look at the biggest proptech news headlines over the past year. Below is a round up of some of the good, bad and ugly stories that shaped the proptech sector in 2019. PropTech firm SquareFoot, a commercial real estate brokerage, announced the acquisition of PivotDesk a subletting platform formerly owned by coworking provider Industrious, which enabl...
Airbnb Inc. employees had a proposal in 2017 for making the home-sharing platform safer for both hosts and guests. Everyone who signs up, they suggested, should have to provide a government identification such as a driver’s license.
The company had suffered through a string of embarrassing safety problems, including prostitution, theft and voyeuristic hosts using camera...
Technology giants are opening their checkbooks to keep pace in the hot field of artificial intelligence, where some of the best ideas and most sought-after talent reside in small startups and academia.
Intel Corp. ’s purchase of Israeli startup Habana Labs for $2 billion this month is the biggest AI deal in a year when those transactions have already hit...
Travis Kalanick, the ousted Uber cofounder, has pivoted from the ride-hailing industry to another kind of shareable market: "ghost kitchens." Part of Kalanick's acquisition of the real-estate company City Storage Systems, CloudKitchens — a startup he's been rather hush-hush about — rents commercial space to offer delivery-only restaurants and chefs a place to prepare food without having to wo...
Mace is rolling out the AI-based project monitoring tool Disperse across its business. Paul Connolly, director of technical services at the major contractor, and Felix Neufeld, founder and CEO of Disperse, explain how it has boosted construction efficiency and lightened the burden on project planners. What is Disperse? FN: Disperse is an artificial int...
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The commercial real estate property technology sector witnessed big gains in 2019, having a watershed year with the most invested capital on record. And 2020 is expected to keep up that momentum as investors focus on valuations and revenue as oppose to scalability and growth, Ashkán Zandieh, chief intelligence officer at CREtech, a global real estate tech-focused media, event and advisory platfor...
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CrediFi, a venture-backed startup that jostled for supremacy in the commercial real estate data and analytics space, is shutting down, The Real Deal has learned. Employees at the startup, which has raised $29 million to date, were informed of the company’s decision to close on Tuesday, according to sources. A meeting was held at the company’s Tel Aviv headquarters, and employees in t...