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Smart technology. Green space. Sustainability. For years, apartment owners have been in search of the ideal mix of amenities and building features to attract the best renters. In return, they have been met with an avalanche of suggestions, some of which have hit the mark and others washing out. For example, while virtual tours of apartments have been heavily marketed by vendors as the next big th...
As tension with Zillow builds over Hamptons real estate listings, some residential firms are launching their own consumer-facing portal. The group, dubbed the Hamptons Real Estate Association, plans for HamptonsRE.com to go live Thursday after several months of behind-the-scenes work, sources told The Real Deal. The nascent association was formed earlier this year and includes the Corcor...
RentRedi, a real estate technology startup offering web and mobile applications for landlords and tenants to manage the rental experience, has closed a $1.4 million fundraising round to undergird its growth as it aims at simplifying rental processes nationwide. Venture capital firm TIA Ventures lead the fundraising round that included seed funding and other strategic investors. RentRedi plans to ...
Retailer and shopping center survival these days increasingly hinges on how companies use PropTech to make the right leasing and investment decisions. “In the U.S. we are over-retailed compared to anywhere else in the first world,” said Alan McKeon, CEO of location-based data analytics company Alexander Babbage. “We have more square footage than anywhere else, so people will talk about a ...
With Apple’s recent announcement that it is committing $2.5 billion to affordable housing, matching the combined pledges of Facebook, Google and Microsoft, the ongoing issue of insufficient and inadequate housing is cast center stage. California’s Bay Area is in perhaps a more deeply etched predicament than many other regions in the U.S., with a "low-income" designation applied to a family of...
Accel Robotics, one of a growing number of AI startups that’s setting out to enable automated cashierless stores, has raised $30 million in a series A round of funding led by SoftBank, with participation from New Ground Ventures, Toyo Kanetsu Corporate Venture Investment Partnership, and RevTech Ventures. Founded out of San Diego in 2015, Accel Robotics is developing the AI and computer vision ...
VTS, the commercial real estate industry's leading leasing and asset management platform, today announced that leading Toronto landlords – Oxford Properties Group and First Capital Realty – recently selected VTS as their leasing and asset management solution. With the new additions, the total amount of Class A office space in the Core Downtown Toronto market to be managed on the platform repre...
Second Century Ventures, the strategic investment arm of the National Association of Realtors®, is now accepting applications for its 2020 REACH and REACH Commercial accelerators. REACH offers education, mentorship and exposure for technology companies aiming to launch into the real estate industry, accelerate their businesses and expand into adjacent markets such as insurance, mortgage and fina...
Infra.Market, a business-to-business marketplace for real estate and construction materials, has raised $20 million (approximately Rs 143.26 crore at current exchange rates) in its Series A funding round led by US-based investment firm Tiger Global. Other investors that participated in the round include Nexus Venture Partners. Existing investor Accel also contributed to the round, Infra.Market sa...