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Navitas Capital believes we are on the verge of Artificial Intelligence (AI) disrupting the massive and technologically analog industries of real estate and construction. We may even go so far as to claim AI will likely be the single largest innovation catalyst creating shifts in value in the built world, effecting the way our industry invests, builds, operates, and maintains real estate.

Glacier Global Partners and Triangle Assets took out a $205 million refinancing on their Dumbo office redevelopment, which will be home to Soho House’s new co-working venture. French bank Natixis provided the sponsors with the floating-rate loan on the property at 10 Jay Street, brokers who arranged the debt told The Real Deal. Newmark Knight Frank’s Dustin Stolly secured the fi...

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,...

Longtime Google engineer Chaim Fried built his first surveillance system, around his Brooklyn home, five years ago, after his family lost all its valuables in a daytime burglary. Then his bicycle was stolen ...

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...