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CRETech November 13, 2019
Amazon.com Inc. plans to launch a new supermarket brand distinct from the Whole Foods Market chain the company acquired two years ago, a sign of the retail giant’s hunger for a slice of the grocery market beyond high-end organic food. The company has posted four job listings for “Amazon’s first grocery store” in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of L...
CRETech November 12, 2019
For traditional real estate investors, getting involved in the data centre sector can be hard. But investors looking to back and build companies can find ways into a sector where occupational growth is set to continue to rise. That was the view of panellists at Bisnow’s first London Data Centre Investment Conference & Expo, hosted by Sungard Availability Services.
CRETech November 12, 2019
The two-day conference was held at Rudin Development and Boston Properties recently-opened Dock 72 in Brooklyn Navy Yard. Featuring presentations, panel discussions and demos from today’s leaders in real estate, technology, P...
CRETech November 12, 2019
WeWork is in discussions with T-Mobile US Inc. Chief Executive John Legere to take over leadership of the troubled office-sharing startup, according to people familiar with the matter. WeWork’s parent, formally known as We Co., is searching for a CEO who can stabilize the company following the erratic tenure of its co-founder Adam Neumann. After WeW...
CRETech November 12, 2019
Real Estate technology solutions firm Motili has named Karl Pomeroy as its new CEO. Pomeroy will lead the firm through its next phase of growth as it leaves its start-up phase. Pomeroy brings more than 30 years in HVAC sales and management to Motili. He comes Goodman Manufacturing, Motili’s parent company, where he was the division president and was respo...
CRETech November 12, 2019
WeWork’s spectacular failure at going public has thrown a spotlight on the vitality of the coworking sector in general — and it looks like one of its main rivals may have a big task ahead in filling its space. Flexible workplace provider Knotel, which is valued at over $1B, has nearly 800K SF that is either vacant right now or set to be vacant in the next year in New York City, Crain’s ...
CRETech November 12, 2019
Just weeks before WeWork expected its stock to begin trading publicly, the startup was still wrangling with the Securities and Exchange Commission over a controversial key financial metric and a litany of other concerns about its planned multibillion-dollar IPO. On Sept. 11—after the initial public offering prospectus had been public for nearly a month, and after the SEC had already made doze...
CRETech November 12, 2019

In the span of 30 years, virtual reality has transformed from a science-fiction curio to a growing asset for the real estate industry. And some of the biggest changes in the field are now becoming commercially viable, thanks to the spread of affordable consumer hardware, like 360-degree cameras, and the ubiquity of powerful smartphones and devices.

CRETech November 12, 2019
SquareFoot, which helps companies find office space suiting its needs, has secured fresh funding. It’s just announced a $16 million Series B round of funding led by DRW VC. SquareFoot's co-founder and CEO Jonathan Wasserstrum joined Cheddar to discuss.
CRETech November 12, 2019
Listen now to episode 5 of The Real Crowd's podcast interview series, "Fundamentals of Commercial Real Estate Investing" at CREtech New York 2019 featuring Brendan Wallace, Co-Founder & CEO, Fifth Wall; Vanessa Anderson, VP of Operations, Truss; Jorge Aguilar, Founder & CEO, Trove; Brian Thompson, Co-Founder & CEO, CRE Simple; and Anja Bump, Founder & CEO, Twofold.