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CRETech April 16, 2019
Thasos, a company that specializes in gathering location data from cellphones, has used that information to rank REITs that specialize in retail properties. Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield is the best-performing REIT among those that hold enclosed retail properties, followed by Taubman Centers, Macerich, Pennsylvania REIT and Simon Property Group, according to Thasos' ranking.
CRETech April 16, 2019
WeWork has inked leases for three new Manhattan locations totaling about 54,700 square feet, the company announced Monday. The firm is taking roughly 26,600 square feet of space at ELK Investors’
CRETech April 16, 2019
The commercial real estate brokerage industry is at the edge of a demographic precipice. According to NAR research, with a median age of 60 years old, CRE brokers as a group are substantially older than the average funeral home director (median age of 53.1), textile mill worker (51.5) and religious organization employee (51.5), who work at the three oldest industries as recorded by the Bureau of L...
CRETech April 15, 2019
WASHINGTON—The battle to protect consumer data is moving from cyberspace to shopping malls, as Congress scrutinizes how advanced technology increasingly follows shoppers around bricks-and-mortar stores. Retailers including cosmetics chain Sephora use electronic Bluetooth beacons to detect customers’ smartphones as they enter the store, allowing them to ping shoppers with promotions as they ...
CRETech April 15, 2019
WhyHotel, which uses a portion of new luxury apartment buildings as a “pop-up” hotel, has opened a new location in Ballston. The new WhyHotel at the Origin Ballston building (700 N. Randolph Street), next to Ballston Quarter mall, is officially opening to its first guests today, a PR rep said. WhyHotel launched...
CRETech April 15, 2019

Firm adds business development veteran with nearly three decades of experience across the Americas, Europe and Asia

New York, April 11, 2019 — 
CRETech April 15, 2019
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Openpath, a leader in workplace tech...
CRETech April 15, 2019
TORONTO, April 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ - Overall venture capital (VC) investment dropped from record heights of US$71 billion* in Q4'18 to $53 billion in Q1'19, due to a decline in Chinese investment, among other factors. While US and European investment remained relatively rob...
CRETech April 15, 2019
Since I started writing this column, I’ve had unprecedented access to all parts of the PropTech value chain. I have spoken to startups and VCs hailing from all over the world and had the opportunity to delve deep in specific use cases as well as highlight global macro trends. But there was one piece of the PropTech puzzle missing – the customer. Naturally, the true end users of real estate (an...
CRETech April 15, 2019
Building Ventures is pleased to announce that Heather Widman has joined the firm as a Principal. Adding Heather to the team will help Building Ventures fulfill our mission to identify, mentor and help build some of the most impactful startups across the Construction and Real Estate technology landscape.