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RUTHERFORD, NJ—Commercial brokerage firm Savills reports it has launched a new specialization that will be focused on property disposition services.
The new unit will be headed by dispositions expert and industry veteran Gerard J. Staudt, who has been hired as a senior managing director and head of dispositions, North America. Staudt will be based at Savills operations in Rutherford, NJ.
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Amazon's Prime Day is coming on July 15 and 16 this year, and it has already taken it into the physical realm through Whole Foods. In doing so, it has once again forced its biggest competitors to play catch-up.
In the five years of the promotion, Amazon has created a sales juggernaut on an otherwise unremarkable weekday in July. Even Black Friday is losing some of its luster compared to Prime ...
Los Angeles developers are taking note of the Clement Canopy buildings in Singapore. The two 40-story towers are the largest modular construction buildings in the world, and set a new standard of the potential for modular building. In Los Angeles, modular construction has the ability to revolutionize new construction, and the Clement Canopy buildings are a great example of the possibilities.
Airbnb has been an almost perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break things” culture since it burst onto the scene in 2008.
The company — which claims to have more than 6 million listings globally (a number it says is more rooms than the six largest ho...
Money makes the world go ‘round, even for WeWork.
The company plans to issue billions of dollars in debt to fund its breakneck growth. Yet, while one dollar may be identical to another when it is sitting in a company’s bank account, how it is raised can make a big difference. There are few companies for which that is more the case than WeWork.
The thinking behind t...
Washington, DC—As GlobeSt’s Women of Influence conference launches this week, we have caught up with another speaker—Karen Whitt, president of Colliers International’s US Real Estate Management Services platform. As part of her role, Whitt oversees property management assignments nationwide and leads business development activities.
“One of the most interesting things about this job i...
Commercial real estate technology venture capital dollar volume increased again in June. According to the latest CRE Tech report, venture capital dollar volume hit $1.1 billion in June, a year-over-year increase of 69%. It was the fourth consecutive month that investment surpassed $1 billion.
Deal volume was also strong for the month. In June, 43 companies received venture fund...
LONDON— SoftBank Group Corp. 9984 0.46% founder Masayoshi Son paid $32 billion for a giant, behind-the-scenes chip desi...