The world’s largest furniture company is determined to go off-grid, and it’s developing an affordable solar energy program to convince you to do the same. Timed for the UN Climate Action Summit in New York next week, IKEA’s holding company Ingka Group revealed that it has invested €2.5 billion...
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People with steady incomes but less-than-perfect credit are often shut out of buying homes because they can’t qualify for a mortgage.
A San Francisco startup, Divvy Homes, says it has an answer: It buys homes on behalf of clients, then rents the homes to the consumers as part of a deal that lets them build up equity toward a purchase.
Divvy, along with companies such as ZeroDown, Flyhomes ...
The world of on-demand storage has seen some ups and downs, with some of the biggest hopefuls pivoting into new areas, some as unrelated as cryptocurrency,...
Hudson Pacific’s electricity consumption is now all carbon neutral. In a three-year partnership with Calpine Energy Solutions, the firm has acquired the environmental attributes associated with 577,000 megawatt-hours from Horse Hollow III Wind Farm, located in Wingate, Texas. The deal should offset Hudson’s greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 121,500 me...
Compass, a real estate brokerage and tech company, opened an office in Seattle that’s two blocks from Amazon’s headquarters and a mile from Zillow’s main offices.
New York-based Compass now has three floors of a new building at 503 Westlake Avenue that will eventually house over 100 engineers and 70 operations staff. The Seattle campus ...
Knotel has increased its Manhattan presence by signing a lease with ATCO Properties & Management for 27,186 square feet at 240 W. 35th St. The coworking company will take up the building’s entire seventh, eighth and 18th floors by late fall.
The Class A property encompasses 165,000 square fe...
A bloc of WeWork directors is planning to push Adam Neumann to step down as chief executive after a tumultuous week in which his eccentric behavior and drug use came to light, and the startup
CHICAGO—At this point, the struggles of retailers are well known and they’re only increasing. Store closures could reach 12,000 by the end of 2019, according to Coresight Research.
For retailers to survive, it helps for them to successfully integrate their digital experience with in-store shopping. But that takes something more than simply offering in store pickup for items bought online.
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Budgeting season is a notoriously stressful time of year for commercial real estate professionals. Things are changing though, and the way real estate companies are run is evolving as technology becomes an integral part of the business.
The budget often reflects the priorities and objectives of a real estate business. To what extent are these innovations changing the p...
