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CRETech April 30, 2019
Marriott International has announced itself as a player in the same arena as Airbnb. The worldwide leader in hotel rooms will be launching its home-sharing service, called Tribute Portfolio Homes, across the U.S., Europe and Latin America as early as next week, the Wall Street Journal reports. Marriott could have more than 2,000 rooms in "high-end homes" across 100 markets, according to the W...
CRETech April 30, 2019
Blockchain is at the core of how Figure Technologies, a fintech co-founded by former SoFi chief Mike Cagney, is originating home equity loans. The startup claims the same technology can also help reduce mortgage closing costs for new homeowners, who typically pay up to 5% of a property’s value.
CRETech April 30, 2019
A San Francisco-based shared housing tech startup that matched roommates to live in converted micro-apartments has shut down. In a letter on its website, HomeShare CEO and founder Jeffrey Pang announced Friday that his company has shuttered its operations. The closure comes a couple of weeks after the company laid off a majority of its staff and cut costs due to "unexpected financial con...
CRETech April 30, 2019
San Diego is one of the country’s premier biotech hubs, but a single co-working deal exceeded the city’s total VC investment in life sciences during the first quarter, according to a new report by CBRE. Shared office startup CommonGrounds Workspace landed $100 million in Series A funding in January to fuel its aggressive growth plans, as Southern California’s flexible office sector contin...
CRETech April 30, 2019
In less than 15 years, Boston-born Goodwin Procter has become a known entity, and frequent adviser, to Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs.
CRETech April 30, 2019
Teaneck, N.J. (April 29, 2019) – Alfred Sanzari Enterprises, a preeminent family-owned and operated commercial and residential real estate firm, announces a partnership with Better Spaces, a flexible, solutions-focused amenity and tenant engagement service, at Glenpointe owned by Alfred Sanzari Enterprises, one of New Jersey’s premier office destinations. The partnership is de...
CRETech April 30, 2019

Over nine years, WeWork has grown from one work space in Manhattan into a global empire of trendily designed shared offices, business services and more.

Now WeWork is hoping that public investors believe the company can eventually turn a profit from that vision.

CRETech April 30, 2019
After decades of lagging behind on technology, the real estate industry faces a wave of tech-enabled innovation that is reshaping the ways in which property is bought, sold, leased, financed, designed, built, managed and marketed. A new term has been coined: PropTech.
CRETech April 29, 2019
Amazon’s demanding culture of worker productivity has been revealed in multiple investigations. But a new report indicates that the company doesn’t just track worker productivity at its warehouses – it also has a system that can automatically fire them. Amazon has fired more than 300 workers, citing productivity, at a single facility in Baltimore in a single year (August 2017 through Sept...
CRETech April 29, 2019

The never-ending quest to kill Comcast is poised to receive some renewed investment as an ambitious startup readies to secure some new cash.

Starry, a Boston-based wireless broadband internet startup, has filed to raise up to $125 million in Series D funding according to a Delaware stock authorization filing uncovered by