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CRETech June 28, 2019
Technology and data company Lightbox has acquired Real Capital Markets. The acquisition will give the company and instant boost to its data and technology platform. The acquisition also includes Digital Map Products, a location intelligence and mapping platform. C-III Capital Partners formerly backed RCM and Silversmith Capital Partners formerly backed DMP. The terms of the transaction were not di...
CRETech June 28, 2019
The Texas Tower is going to be as grandiose as the state it resides in. Hines and Ivanhoé Cambridge are developing the 47-story, 1M SF office tower in Houston and its features could be described as amenities on steroids. Tenants and their employees will have plenty of natural light coming from 10-foot, full-height windows. There will be a high-performance fitness center, access to plenty of...
CRETech June 28, 2019

Amazon’s strategy to bring more brick-and-mortar options into its vast e-commerce empire, and its ambition to sell more pharmaceutical products, today may have found themselves a little more knitted together. The ...

CRETech June 28, 2019

Startup campus Station F is expanding beyond its original building in Paris with a co-living space called Flatmates. 600 people will be able to rent a room in shared apartments.

Compared to traditional accommodation in Paris, it’s much easier to get a room as you don’t need a French full-time work contract, guarantors and all th...
CRETech June 28, 2019

LeaseHawk, a leader in multifamily technology solutions, has expanded its AI platform to include ACE AI, a virtual leasing assistant. ACE AI is the multifamily industry’s first AI-powered leasing assistant that interacts with apartment hunters 24/7 through conversational interfaces of voice, chat and text. The technology will be on display at the 2019 Apartmentalize Nat...

CRETech June 28, 2019
Uber just made its first acquisition of a Seattle startup, swooping up Mighty AI, which develops training data for computer vision models. The deal closed today and was confirmed by both companies. Terms were not disclosed. “The team at Mighty AI has built technology to label at scale using the latest AI and user experience techniques,” Jon Thomason, vice pr...
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.