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CRETech April 26, 2019
Sophisticated tech tools eliminate tedious busywork and free up commercial property lenders to uncover—and act upon—meaningful insights. For commercial real estate lenders, the process of uncovering, organizing, and interpreting data on a property’s mortgage or debt history has always been a time-consuming and error-prone endeavor. Over the last several years, however, the industry has wi...
CRETech April 26, 2019

A new breed of real-estate focused startups is attracting a sudden flood of venture money.

The group includes Sonder, a travel rental firm which is finalizing a deal to raise more than $200 million from investors such as Fidelity Investments, according to people familiar with the matter. Just days ago Lyric, a short-term rentals manager, announced it had raised $160 million i...
CRETech April 25, 2019

Vue.ai, a U.S./India startup that develops an AI platform to help online retailers work more efficiently and sell more, has announced a $17 million Series B round.

The investment is led by
CRETech April 25, 2019
WASHINGTON—As technology continues to play a huge role in the commercial real estate industry, companies are increasingly spring-boarding initiatives in the form of partnerships, within a company structure, as subsets of existing companies or as standalone platforms. One example is Colliers International’s PropTech Accelerator P...
CRETech April 25, 2019
SVN International Corporation has partnered with Imbrex, the blockchain-powered multiple listing service, making it the first commercial brokerage to store its data on the blockchain. Blockchain is a digital data storage platform and transaction ledger that uses encryption and a decentralized network of servers to store the information. Proponents call it a more secure marketplace that removes ...
CRETech April 25, 2019
Upscale co-living might sound like an oxymoron, but Ollie has tested the concept in Long Island City and Manhattan, and is bringing it to Coral Gables, where it is filling space in an ambitious new mixed-use, transit-oriented development project. The company touts an “all-inclusive living experience” that combines furnished micro-studios and shared suites with "extraordinary lifestyle-rele...
CRETech April 25, 2019
Airbnb is looking to book a place in the streaming media business. The company best known for its controversial marketplace of on-demand accommodations is now plotting a foray into becoming a production studio, according to a report in Reuters. Tons of companies in ...
CRETech April 25, 2019
I recently interviewed Ryan Simonetti co-founder and CEO of Convene. What I loved about the Convene model is that it displays the core element to transformation – taking one industry model and transplanting it into a related but different industry … in this case incorporating hotel concierge services into commercial real estate.
CRETech April 25, 2019
DALLAS – More and more, it’s exploiting the data at your fingertips that determine whether you’ll be part of the CRE elite or an also-ran. This, at any rate, is how Perry Levine, industry principal for RealPage, sized up the situation in a recent interview with GlobeSt.com.
CRETech April 25, 2019
Leasing activity by coworking and flexible workspace operators, which has been growing at a frenetic pace, is accelerating at an even faster clip. In our January 2019 U.S. Flexible Workspace & Coworking report, we noted that coworking inventory across the 19 markets we surveyed increased by almost 50% in the 18-month period ending in Q2 2018 to a total of 27.2 million square feet.