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CRETech June 28, 2019
SAN FRANCISCO—Since the close of an $85 million Series C funding round in 2018 and the appointment of Bryan Murphy as CEO in January, flexible workspace provider Breather has focused its offerings to address the trend toward longer-term hybrid real estate solutions that prov...
CRETech June 28, 2019
Zillow may have paid $1 million to the winners of its Zillow Prize, a competition aimed at improving its long-running Zestimate, but it looks like some of the findings from the winning team are paying off for the home-valuation tool...
CRETech June 28, 2019
Hines, the real estate investment firm founded by billionaire Gerald Hines, is betting on increasing tenant demand for flexible workspaces. The Houston-based firm -- which oversees $121 billion in assets -- is launching a new business, dubbed Hines Squared, to provide premium co-working and flexible office space in...
CRETech June 27, 2019
Commercial real estate data firm Credifi has laid off almost a quarter of its staff, and its president left last month, according to multiple sources. The shakeup comes just months after the Tel Aviv-based analytics startup completed a $6 million funding round at the start of the year. Sources said it had failed to attract clients from the financial industry, precipitating the departures.
CRETech June 27, 2019
As investor interest in the PropTech space continues to intensify, leaders in the real estate and technology industries have made a concerted effort to focus that interest on those start-ups with the greatest potential to make a tangible, productive impact on the built environment.  
CRETech June 27, 2019
Strong demand prompted flexible office space provider WorkSuites to open a second floor for leasing at its new Cole Avenue location this month. The company’s new site at 2626 Cole in Dallas opened June 1 with only the building’s third floor in play. Within days of the opening, the third floor reached 90% occupancy, prompting WorkSuites to add the building’s fourth floor to its offering...
CRETech June 27, 2019
Completely driverless trucks are cruising down Florida highways, courtesy of Starsky Robotics. The startup this morning revealed that one of its commercial Volvo semis traveled 9.4 miles along Florida’s Turnpike on June 16 without a safety driver, in a pilot it’s calling the first of its kind. On the route, Starsky’s 18-wheeler successfully navigated ...
CRETech June 27, 2019

Social Capital co-founder Chamath Palihapitiya is spinning out a company from his venture capital fund-turned-family-office, TechCrunch has learned. The new entity, temporarily dubbed CaaS (short for capital-as-a-service) Tec...

CRETech June 27, 2019

The World’s Most Influential Commercial Real Estate Tech Conference Is Coming To Brooklyn

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CRETech June 27, 2019
The issue of affordable workforce housing is serious enough to warrant political change unpopular with developers, but it looks likely to only get worse. Monthly living expenses (rent, mortgage, utilities, etc.) are rising at a faster rate than wages for 44% of respondents in a new survey from RentPath and Randstad US. Generation Z, a label that broadly applies to those born between the mid...