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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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.
The construction industry is on the cusp of significant disruption that will forever change how buildings are bought, designed, made, and assembled. The summation of the technological forces being applied to the construction industry is termed PropTech.
PropTech investment in 2016, according to Re:Tech, was a record at $4.2 billion which tripled to $12.6 billion in ...
Keller Williams is seeking to copy Redfin’s tech to beat the brokerage at its own game.
Keller Williams President Josh Team noted that the real estate industry is seeing an “arms race” — and the company is looking at Redfin because “they’re doing some really great things. The brokerage thinks it can “copy the technology of Redfin before Redfin can take the market share,” Inman r...