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Truss opening up online commercial leasing platform to other brokers nationwide

CRETech June 10, 2019

Truss is letting competing brokerages use its online platform for small-office leasing. The Chicago-based company is launching Truss CRE, which lets commercial tenants search a database of available properties and execute leases online. The service for now is only available to brokers in the Boston area, but the company plans to expand it nationwide. Truss lets commercial landlords and co-wo...

Uber Copter to Offer Flights From Lower Manhattan to J.F.K.

CRETech June 07, 2019

When Uber announced an aerial ride-hailing division, Uber Elevate, three years ago, the internet and news media buzzed with chatter of flyin...

Amazon says it has deployed more than 200,000 robotic drives globally

CRETech June 07, 2019

Amazon is serious about robotics. For most other companies, the technology may still feel like some distant novelty, but the e-commerce giant has already begun to deploy robotics systems en masse. Robotics VP Brad P...

A first look at Amazon’s new delivery drone

CRETech June 07, 2019

For the first time, Amazon today showed off its newest fully electric delivery drone at its first

Sources: Bird is in talks to acquire scooter startup Scoot

CRETech June 07, 2019

If you are among those who thought that the scooter market sounded a little overhyped and overcrowded, we’ve gotten wind of a deal that could point to some impending consolidation. The on-demand scooter business Bird has agreed to acquire Scoot, a smaller two-wheeled mobility startup, sources tell TechC...

Is Purplebricks on the verge of being taken over?

CRETech June 07, 2019

German media company Axel Springer is purchasing tens of millions of shares of Purplebricks, more than doubling its stake in the beleaguered flat-fee broker...

Pop-up hotel’s first Houston location to be in new downtown apartment tower

CRETech June 07, 2019

Washington, D.C.-based WhyHotel will open its first Houston location in late 2019, according to a June 3 press release.

It will be the first location outside of the East Coast for the company, which operates pop-up hotels in new luxury apartment buildings.

The Houston pop-up will be with...

EQ Office’s Lisa Picard Makes the Future of Office Her Purpose | Catalyst 2019 Keynote

CRETech June 07, 2019

Lisa Picard, President and CEO of EQ Office (manager of Blackstone’s US office real estate portfolio) makes a point of declaring herself an “Accidental CEO.” Her candor, sharp wit, and vision for the future of office owners suggest the opposite. At Catalyst 2019, Picard spoke candidly about what often goes unspoken within commercial real estate office market. Her presentation entitled “Mak...

CREtech Announces Flagship NYC Conference

CRETech June 06, 2019

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

New York, NY (June 6, 2019) — CREtech (cretech.com), the leading event, content and connectivity platform f...

VC Firm With Roots In Poker Makes $115M Investment In Real Estate Data Firm

CRETech June 06, 2019

Investment firm Susquehanna Growth Equity has ploughed $115M into real estate data and technology firm Real Capital Analytics, in what RCA said is the largest-ever “growth financing” for a real estate data firm. Susquehanna has bought a 40% stake in RCA from Daily Mail and General Trust, the UK-listed firm that was previously owner of fellow real estate data business Xceligent.