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In real estate, and every other industry, technological change is as exciting as it is inevitable. But the number and pace of new technologies coming to market can be mind-boggling. So how do you decide what tech will best benefit your customers and provide the most value for your business?
The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) has done the legwork and taken the guesswork out of this cha...
LightBox’s recent acquisition of Real Capital Markets has given the global commercial real estate marketplace a swift data boost. For brokers, that is great news. According to leaders at the company, the access to data will allow users to make even better, more informed investment decisions. In commercial real estate, that is the goal. In the long term, however,...
WeWork Cos. has a plan to shore up confidence in its business before it goes public: offer billions of dollars in debt that would fund its growth until it can turn a profit.
The money-losing office-space manager i...
Property management software company AppFolio has launched a new artificial intelligence tool for property managers. The new AppFolio Property Manager Plus tool includes an AI leasing assistant. Lisa, the name of the tool, will automate the leasing process, including responding to requests by email or text in real time and tracking leasing performance. The result is aimed to help ...
STARTING THIS MONTH, you can summon a chopper with the tap of an app to whisk you from a lower Manhattan heliport to John F. Kennedy Airport in just 8 minutes. But Uber Copter isn’t for the average traveler fed up with gridlocked roads to Kennedy. Initially, the service is limited to Uber’s Platinum and Diamond members, the top tiers of its loyalty plan, and will cost an avera...
As food delivery expands across major U.S. cities, a handful of startup companies are trying to use the latest e-commerce technology to liberate restaurants and grocery stores from pricey, street-facing retail space.
The new breed of startups are opening shared kitchens in industrial buildings, hoping to persuade restaurants to quit their storefronts, move to the new spaces and switch entirely ...
Andrea Jang is the Head of Growth, Americas at JLL Spark
JLL Spark is an independent division of JLL that operates a global venture fund of $100 million to invest in proptech companies transforming commercial real estate.
JLL has structured JLL Spark to operate independently and without th...
The Edge in Amsterdam is widely considered the smartest building in the world.
Since the 15-story office property opened four years ago, its 28,000 sensors have collected roughly 55 terabytes of data on everything from the air’s CO2 levels to workers’ daily coffee orders. If that information were...
In June 2019, investments in private real estate tech companies continue to set new records. For the fourth consecutive month, dollar volume in real estate tech surpassed the billion dollar mark. Total dollar volume reached an estimated $1.1 Billion. Month-to-month, total dollar volume decreased by 45 percent. However, year-to-year (June ’18 & ...