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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...
CRETech June 27, 2019

Washington, DC (CNN Business) - Google's parent company continues its attempts to sell Toronto on its controversial vision for a utopian

CRETech June 27, 2019
NEW YORK, June 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Ocrolus, the only automation platform that analyzes financial documents with over 99% accuracy, today announced
CRETech June 27, 2019
After disrupting the short-term rental industry at large, Airbnb is coming for brokers of high-end vacation rentals. On Tuesday, about two years after it acquired high-end vacation rental website Luxury Retreats, Airbnb announced it was rolling out Airbnb Luxe, a vertical ...
CRETech June 26, 2019
Simon Baron Development has landed a $240 million refinancing for its massive co-living project at 29-22 Northern Boulevard in Long Island City. The lenders were Société Générale and Deutsche Pfandbriefbank, and the loan also includes a new $40 million mortgage, according to property records.
CRETech June 26, 2019
Venn, an Israeli startup that leases and renovates properties before renting them out to individual residents and commercial tenants, announced it has raised $40M in a Series A round. The investors include Pitango Venture Capital, Hamilton Lane — on behalf of the New York State Common Retirement Fund — and Bridges Israel, according to Venn. It plans to use the money to expand in the U.S. an...
CRETech June 26, 2019
With building design getting more complex and construction budgets tight, increasingly sophisticated digital tools are helping to deliver projects in line with exacting investor requirements. New technology is supplementing – if not replacing – traditional planning methods, with virtual design and construction (VDC) tools allowing architects, planners and surveyors to work together in a 3D ...
CRETech June 26, 2019
The construction industry faces a multitude of challenges, from the rising cost of materials to the labor shortage to the impact buildings have on the environment and the need to make buildings resilient to natural disasters. A new lab facility Hitt Contracting opened this month in Falls Church, Virginia, aims to help find solutions to these problems by developing and testing new construc...