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In just two years, online lending platform Better Mortgage Inc. has appreciated in value like a move-in ready home in a sought-after neighborhood. The New York company raised a $70 million Series C funding round from a group of investors that include Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan and American Express Ventures, in a deal that values the company at just north of $500 million.

To say that the last two years have been ones of transition and transformation for brick-and-mortar retailers would be a dramatic understatement. The year of 2017 was one of the worst for brick-and-mortar retail, with several big-name bankruptcy filings and analysts comparing the market to Great Recession-era performance. The year 2018 featured retrenchment and reckoning, as retailers realized tha...

IF A LOCAL tech industry critic has his way, San Francisco could become the first US city to ban its agencies from using facial recognition technology. Aaron Peskin, a member of the city’s Board of Supervisors, proposed the ban Tuesday as part of a suite of rules to enhance surveillance oversight. In additio...

CREDiligent.com announced today the release of the commercial due diligence app CREDiligent for iOS and Android device. Due diligence is the most important part in a real estate acquisition. Finding the deal is primary but analyzing and properly doing the due diligence is pivotal.  This is the time when you find out if ...

A bit over a year after its release, Nest’s security alarm system is picking up a new trick: it can now double as a

Many Commercial Real Estate (CRE) companies bill their tenants each month based on the amount of electricity, water and/or gas they consume. Generally, this is a smart business move. Not only does it guarantee that management won’t underestimate their tenants’ consumption and end up on the hook for the difference, increasingly savvy tenants are including utility billing as a factor in lease de...

As I mentioned in my recent video discussing this year’s CRE megatrends, not only is the real estate industry last to adopt digital technologies, it’s dead last. However, with nearly 60% of U.S. organizations making smart building energy investme...