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BOSTON—Consumers often speak glowingly about new innovation, but business leaders know the value comes in its application. The much talked about blockchain technology not only creates a secure ledger for commercial real estate properties, but it also can standardize data and create interoperability between uncommunicative real estate parties or platforms. GlobeSt.com spoke to Kevin Maggiacomo, C...
Building maintenance and repair services are getting a digital overhaul with the rise of on-demand platforms for hiring specialist help.
Businesses, increasingly accustomed to booking everything from catering to additional workspace as and when they need them, are now looking for the same instant access to maintenance and other workplace services.
“Digitally native” millennial and Gen Z consumers may not be so averse to brick-and-mortar, after all.
According to a recent study of 1,200 consumers and 400 retail executives across the U.S., U.K. and Australia conducted by Oracle NetSuite, Wakefield Research and The Retail Doctor, Gen Z and millennials (43%) are most likely to do more in-store shopping this year, followed by Gen X (29%) a...
For the last several years, developers have been pushing the envelope in terms of physical amenities and coming up with new and innovative features that make their communities stand out amongst the competition. That is, until recently.
As you set foot inside, the mall knows where you’ve come from. Once you leave, the mall knows where you go next. The mall knows where you live. The mall knows where you work. The mall knows the kinds of shops you visit. The mall knows if you tweeted about that shirt you bought. The mall probably knows where you’ll eat lunch.
Every night for five months before the launch of Zillow’s website in February 2006, employees gathered their Dell desktops on Ping-Pong tables, connected them to harness their combined processing power, and strung together extension cords to get them all running. To avoid overloading the circuits, they unplugged the office refrigerator and banned C...
Diane Vrkic is going on four years since founding technology platform Waypoint, which provides performance analytics for the commercial real estate industry.
The company’s chief executive said she conceived of Waypoint’s model to cut out the tedious traditional methods of gathering, implementing, using and executin...
Opendoor popularized a new way for consumers to sell homes online, raised $1.3 billion in equity backing, and forced companies across the residential real estate industry to rethink their business models. But now, as it targets more growth in an increasingly competitive industry, the company is reshuffling staff and...
The Commercial Real Estate (CRE) sector has one more reason to care about Access Control — WeWork, who has been a growth catalyst and sometimes thorn in the side of many CRE players has validated the importance of Access Control Technology with their acquisition of Waltz this week. Waltz...