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CRETech February 25, 2019

Bassem Hamdy has been in the construction business for a long time.

He spent the last few years at the construction software business Procore, now a $3 billion company developing technolo...
CRETech February 25, 2019
Co-living has been spreading consistently in the past few years, and two operators say it has been more successful than once expected. Ollie's ALTA LIC in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York, provides a sort of apples to apples comparison between pricing in co-living versus traditional apartments. It is the largest co-living property in the country, with 169 of its 466...
CRETech February 25, 2019
Blockchain technology could have a major effect on the real estate industry, from property purchasing to due diligence to title management. We identify the early adopters and potential impact. The real estate industry is undergoing a digital transformation. While historically a “pen and pencil” business — often relying on inefficient and archaic methods for doing business and keeping...
CRETech February 25, 2019
Flexible office space firm Jay Suites is venturing into the conference-room leasing business. The New York-based firm, which has 700,000 square feet of office leased in the city catering to mid-size enterprise clients, has opened a 20,000 square foot space at
CRETech February 25, 2019

The good news is, there’s a ton of capital in the venture arena these days. That’s probably a confluence of two major tends: 1) an extended economic expansion where firms have excess liquidity and need to find clever ways to invest it and 2) the realization that technology is taking over every

CRETech February 25, 2019
IMAGINE YOU TRAINED an artificial intelligence on a comprehensive stock-photo set of every boutique-hotel lobby from Palm Springs to Stockholm to Milan, then connected it to a five-story 3-D printer fully furnished with pendant-dome lamps, waxy leaves and old-school hip-hop lyrics. The output would be a WeWork. So much serene, lavish and mechanical attention is allocated to every detail: the neon ...
CRETech February 22, 2019

Austin-based SaaS platform brings efficiency and faster decisions to the $1.3 trillion U.S. construction industry

(AUSTIN, Texas) Feb. 20, 2019 – Rabbet, a leading intelligent construction finance platform, announced today it has closed an $8 million Series A round backed by Goldman Sachs’ Principal Strategic Investments group, QED Investors and Ca...
CRETech February 22, 2019

Largest West Coast conference in commercial real estate tech in 2019 coming to Los Angeles March 27 and 28th

New York, NY (February 22, 2019) — CREtech (cretech.com
CRETech February 22, 2019
In the last week of October, commercial real estate brokers all over the country received a package via snail mail from CoStar Group. Inside was the informational equivalent of a dirty bomb — the latest salvo in the data giant’s legal battle against its main rival, Missouri-based Xceligent. When brokers opened the UPS envelope, they found a brochure with a carefully ass...
CRETech February 22, 2019

Zillow Group Inc., the housing search website that’s taken a hit to its stock price as it pursues an ambitious plan to buy homes and originate mortgages, is bringing back its first chief executive officer to lead the transformation.

Chief Executive Officer Spencer Rascoff is handing the reins to Executive Chairman Rich Barton, 51, who co-founded the company in 2005...