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CRETech September 26, 2019
Compass‘ chief operating officer Maëlle Gavet is leaving the residential brokerage next month, according to sources...
CRETech September 25, 2019
NEW YORK, NY – September 23, 2019 Ferguson Partners is pleased to announce Linda J. Isaacson as the firm’s Managing Director and Global Head of Innovation and Technology. Isaacson, a veteran in the real estate and PropTech industries, will look to empower clients to create innovative cultures that embrace digitization and ...
CRETech September 25, 2019
GeoCV is known for their ability to create smooth, realistic 3D+360 tours of existing spaces by using a smartphone depth camera for capture. The GeoCV Cloud automatically stitches together images and 3D measurements into a GeoCV 3D Tour, providing a quick and impressive result with a minimum of scanning effort. Recently, an update to the tour editing software ena...
CRETech September 25, 2019
Bill Gurley, partner at venture firm Benchmark Capital, gained fame as a Silicon Valley Cassandra, railing against cash-hungry startups with indulgent boards and entitled founders. Now office-leasing firm We Co., where Benchmark is the second largest outside shareholder, is in turmoil. Co-founder Adam Neumann stepped down as We’s chief executive, the company announced Tuesday, confirming a Wa...
CRETech September 25, 2019
Property owners have long worried that short-term rentals bring noise, crime and regulatory risks to their buildings. But some real-estate firms are starting to embrace the presence of itinerant guests. In downtown Nashville, Tenn., developers of a new 77-unit condominium project are explicitly marketing their building to owners interested in renting out their apartments via short-term listing ...
CRETech September 25, 2019
WeWork’s decision to replace co-founder Adam Neumann with two chief executives suggests a desire to establish both credibility and continuity by pairing an accomplished technology veteran with a longtime insider. On Tuesday, Mr. Neumann, the company’s charismatic co-founder, agreed to 
CRETech September 25, 2019
SEATTLE—Private equity real estate investment firm, Unico Properties LLC, a subsidiary of Unico Investment Group LLC, has appointed tenant tech provider Equiem to launch its app across three West Coast properties with nearly 2 million square feet. Equiem will roll out at Unico’s 1111 Third Ave., a recently repositioned 30-story tower in Seattle’s CBD; the Logan Building, a 10-story office bu...
CRETech September 25, 2019

Lyft  is rolling out an update that makes it possible to access bikes, scooters, transit and car rentals within the app. Uber, however, 

CRETech September 25, 2019

Adam Neumann turned WeWork into one of the most valuable start-ups in the world largely through the force of his outsize personality. He persuaded investors to give him billions of dollars and employees to believe that the shared-office company was changing the world.

That same mix of ambition and idealism f...

CRETech September 24, 2019
I’m well familiar with the initial lure of the gig economy. Five years ago this week, on September 14th 2015, my cofounder Jessica Beck and I launched our company, Hello Alfred. As entrepreneurs developing a service-based idea, everyone we spoke with championed the idea of “flexible” 1099 labor. Ins...