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CRETech March 20, 2019
China’s largest insurer is backing the nation’s ambitious smart city program with investment in technology, panelists said during the ULI Asia Pacific Leadership Convivium, held in Shenzhen, China. Wei Baisong, chief technical officer and chief product officer at Ping An Capital, the venture arm of one of China’s largest insurance companies, said China has plans for 500 smart cities, comp...
CRETech March 20, 2019
PHILADELPHIA, PA—Truss, a Chicago-based marketplace for commercial real estate listings, is expanding its platform into the Philadelphia market with information about more than 400 available office spaces and 20 coworking locations in downtown Philadelphia.  The expansion follows Truss’ latest Series A-2 funding round of $15...
CRETech March 19, 2019
The conversion to primarily open-office floor plans over the past decade is now reaching adolescence, and like many revolutions has created problems as well as possibilities, panelists said at a ULI New York event in February. Industry experts from three tech companies that want to attract the best talent available described what they are seeing in the marketplace based on their considerable and f...
CRETech March 19, 2019
Neiman Marcus is making a big bet on the Big Apple with the opening of its first-ever store in Manhattan, on Friday, March 15. The luxury retailer will anchor The Shops & Restaurants at Hudson Yards — the expansive new complex on Manhattan’s fare West Side that has ...
CRETech March 19, 2019
The three rules of real estate are location, location, location. But the fourth one just might be technology, especially for lawyers who are looking to remain or become the go-to resources for the growing number of clients taking an interest in property technology (“prop tech”).
CRETech March 19, 2019
For staffers at the Cupertino planning department, explaining the city’s byzantine zoning rules to residents is a challenge. For residents, it’s even harder understanding them. Driven by an influx of wealthy residents looking to expand or rebuild their homes, the city of Cupertino has turned to softwar...
CRETech March 19, 2019
Aakash Ravi and four friends were working on the innovation team at IBM when they came up with the idea for Spaceti (which stands for space technology innovations), a proptech startup that aims to determine utilization and occupancy of space as well as indoor air quality.
CRETech March 19, 2019
Food delivery is a booming business without any sign of slowing down, and some major players are expanding the scope of real estate's involvement. Uber has been secretly piloting a program in Paris where it leases industrial or empty real estate and fits it out as commercial kitchens for restaurants to lease as satellite operations that focus on delivery, Bloomberg reports. These "ghost " or "...
CRETech March 19, 2019

What market is twice as big as the hotel industry and has not yet been disrupted by technology? The small residential industry. If you've never heard of it, there’s a reason.

People often refer to multifamily as an industry representing all buildings/complexes with anywhere from two units to over 1,000 units. Less familiar to some, but also very large, is the ...