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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 ...
CRETech March 18, 2019
Monday, March 18, 2019 - HqO, a tenant experience (TeX) platform for commercial real estate, today announced that it will launch in Chicago’s Willis Tower, owned and managed by E...
CRETech March 18, 2019
In a time when an “all-out-sprint” is the business strategy for high-growth companies, some companies are finding solace in partnering with accelerators to strategically build their business. Amongst the Top 10 investors in 2018, accelerators accounted for 61 percent of all investments, capturing the lions share of deals. Accelera...
CRETech March 18, 2019
Major real estate investors are still conservative when it comes to PropTech, and startups are looking for ways to legitimize themselves to an industry that still doesn’t fully understand them. A growing number of small to midsize PropTech companies are merging to achieve scale and diversify their offerings in order to increase their appeal to investors and potential adopters in the real es...
CRETech March 18, 2019
Bought an Amazon Echo last Christmas? You were not the only one. According to a statement released by Amazon, “millions” of Echo Dots — the manufacturer’s smart home devices featuring voice assistant Alexa — were sold during the holidays, making it the best-selling item on t...
CRETech March 18, 2019
Mentally inserting oneself into a floor plan can come as second nature for architects, but the exercise can be a bit abstract for others. In the past, designers have employed physical models and even tape or rope on floors to help clients experience a space, understand scale, and envision adjacencies. Nowadays, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies can bridge the gap in spat...
CRETech March 18, 2019
In a scene from “Gattaca,” the dystopian 1997 film set in the “not too distant future,” dozens of people are seen entering the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation headquarters using their genetic fingerprint to pass security clearance. It may seem like a far-flung sci-fi reference, but at Hudson Yards, the gargantuan “smart city” that officially opened Friday on the Far West Side, there are ...
CRETech March 18, 2019
2019 has kicked off with something of a feeding frenzy in the world of PropTech. There is much talk of this company investing, that startup raising, and the thousands of new entrants from all around the world looking to ‘disrupt the biggest asset class in the world’. Well, here is a tip: most startups will fail and most investments in using startup technology will fail as well.
CRETech March 18, 2019

Cookie-cutter corporate housing turns people into worker drones. When an employee needs to move to a new city for a few months, they’re either stuck in bland, giant apartment complexes or Airbnbs meant for shorter stays. But Zeus lets any homeowner get paid to host white-collar transie...