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Hello Alfred, app-based personal assistant for renters, announces major U.S. expansion

CRETech May 16, 2019

Hello Alfred, an app-based personal assistant service for apartment dwellers, announced today that it’s partnering with Greystar, the nation’s largest apartment operator, to provide its services to tenants. Hello Alfred is betting that its high-end service will appeal to Greystar’s high-income, time-starved renters.

Hello Alfred employs professionally train...

MetaProp Announces Applications Are Now Open for 2019-2020 Accelerator Class at Columbia University

CRETech May 16, 2019

Pioneering NYC-based PropTech Accelerator Launches 7th Program

New York, NY (Thursday, May 16, 2019) -- MetaProp announced today t...

REITs Showing Increased Receptiveness to PropTech

CRETech May 16, 2019

The latest edition of the Nareit REIT Report podcast explores the topic of real estate-targeted technology, commonly known as PropTech, with Blake Liggio, a partner in the law firm Goodwin’s Real Estate Industry Group. PropTech has seen significant acceleration in recent years due to the growth of technologies targeting real estate and the increase in capital supporting those platforms, accor...

These gorgeous tiny houses can operate entirely off the grid

CRETech May 16, 2019

In a factory in Nevada, a large 3D printer prints the pieces of new prefab tiny homes that can work fully off the grid. When complete, the houses will run on solar power, including heating and cooling. An optional system generates water from moisture in the outdoor air so it isn’t necessary to connect to a city water supply. In the bathroom, the home is among the first in the U.S. to us...

WeWork Continues to Lose Money Ahead of Potential I.P.O.

CRETech May 16, 2019

WeWork’s primary business mission remains maintaining its heady growth rate, even as it continues to lose money, according to its latest quarterly financial results.

The Office of the Future Is No Office at All, Says Startup

CRETech May 16, 2019

GitLab Inc. is extreme, even for Silicon Valley: It has no headquarters and everyone works remotely, even the CEO. The software-development startup, which has more than 600 employees in 54 countries, plans to raise its headcount to about 1,000 by year-end. Its far-flung workers rely on internal tools and cloud-based services to collaborate, communicate and contribute to projects.

Equinox Gyms to Add Co-Working to the Workout

CRETech May 16, 2019

Equinox is teaming with co-working operator Industrious to offer furnished office space near the fitness company’s upscale gyms, the latest sign that the office, fitness and hospitality industries are starting to converge. The first workspace in the partnership is slated to open later this year in a 72-story skyscraper in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards, said Industrious’s co-founder and chief e...

CompStak raises $12M in round backed by IA Capital

CRETech May 16, 2019

CompStak, the real estate analytics firm that crowdsources leasing and investment-sales comps from brokers, has raised the another $12 million, the company told The Real Deal Wednesday. The analytics firm has now raised $28 million since it launched in 2011. The latest Series B round was led by IA Capital, a New York-based investment firm that has backed insurance and financial technol...

One Of The World’s Biggest Sovereign Wealth Funds Is Getting Into PropTech Investment

CRETech May 16, 2019

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund is starting to invest in the PropTech sector, as the world’s biggest institutions and real estate owners continue to put money into the technologies that are changing the sector. GIC, which has around $400B of assets including about $27B of real estate, has started to invest in venture capital funds which specialise in PropTech, and is also looking to incre...

M&A mania continues in CRE tech: RDM acquired by Building Engines

CRETech May 16, 2019

For years, one of the oldest and steadiest players in the commercial real estate tech space watched as upstarts sprang up, raised heaps of venture funding, and engaged in a hectic period of M&A activity. But it has finally been swept up in the wave. Real Data Management, which measures buildings for some of the country’s biggest landlords and helps them keep track of their office space on...