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A new generation of innovative software platforms can do everything from monitoring buildings’ energy and water use in real time to providing tenant workforces with on-site access to medical treatment and other quality-of-life-enhancing services, according to panelists at ULI’s 2019 Spring Meeting in Nashville. Those applications, collectively known as proptech, could dramatically alter the co...
Construction company Suffolk is looking to disrupt the construction process as we know it with their Smart Lab concept, which uses interactive technology to help developers and owners reduce construction costs and time. Suffolk is launching the Smart Lab in Los Angeles, and is working on DTLA’s Park 5th, Hollywood’s Tommie and Thompson Hotels projects.
Investor eagerness to put money into real estate tech companies reached new highs during the first quarter of 2019, according to a new report by CRETech.
Global investment in real estate tech companies spiked by 607% from Q1 2018 to Q1 2019 to $9.9B, the largest gain in real estate tech history, the report says.
Uber has confirmed it will spin out its self-driving car business after the unit closed $1 billion in funding from Toyota, auto-parts maker Denso and SoftBank’s Vision Fund.
The development has been specu...
WeWork is shuffling around some of its most senior executives as it tries to build out its international presence, which is a big test for the office-rental company in justifying its recent $45 billion valuation.
Eugen Miropolski, who previously oversaw WeWork operations in all of Europe and Asia excluding Japan, has been named the company’s chief operating off...
Zillow is making a sizable bet that it can automate the labor-intensive process of buying and selling homes. But unlike most other areas of technology, many customers may prefer doing things the old-fashioned way when it comes to the roof over their heads.
Tech-enabled “iBuying” offers speed and convenience for a customer, eliminating the need for repairs, stagings, showings and, in some ca...
The phrase “we need more affordable housing” has turned into a cliche across the U.S. as apartment rents continue to escalate.
DFW-based multifamily developer JPI is no stranger to the need for more affordable apartments, but the firm's executive leadership said the solution to create less expensive apartments lies not with developers, but with the construction methods deployed.
Remote workers from start-ups and well-known companies will soon have a space to work in the Mall at Short Hills.
Industrious, a coworking space with over 65 locations across 40 cities, makes its New Jersey debut in late 2019 in the 30,000-square-foot former Saks Fifth Avenue department store.
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Zillow Group slammed Compass with two lawsuits late Friday, alleging the $4.4 billion SoftBank-backed brokerage hired three top technology staffers in violation of the...
A civil liberties group in Canada is suing three tiers of government over potential privacy issues posed by Sidewalk Labs’s plan to develop a 12-acre smart city in Toronto, which will be approved or denied later this summer.