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CRETech September 24, 2019

NEW YORK, September 23, 2019 – The Real Estate Marketing Awards (#REMAS), an annual creative competition that recognizes and awards the best marketing projects, agencies and marketers in the real estate industry each year, announced today that applications are now being accepted for their...

CRETech September 23, 2019

A global co-living business is homing in on Austin as part of its big U.S. expansion.

Germany-based Quarters plans to open in 2021 a five-story, 120-bedroom co-living facility at 1108 Nueces St. downtown, according to a Sept. 18 announcement — replacing a low-slung office building currently on the site. The company said it ...

CRETech September 23, 2019

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...

CRETech September 23, 2019
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 ...
CRETech September 23, 2019

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,...

CRETech September 23, 2019
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...
CRETech September 23, 2019
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 ...
CRETech September 23, 2019
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...
CRETech September 23, 2019
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 
CRETech September 20, 2019
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. ...