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CRETech January 17, 2019

New brokerage HelloOffice has snapped up a handful of Bay Area brokers for its growing team.

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE: CBRE) brokers Felipe Gomez-Kraus, Mike Iino,

CRETech January 16, 2019
Measurabl, a Camber Creek portfolio company, announced today that it closed a $18mm Series B round led by Sway Ventures with participation from existing and new investors, including S&P Measurabl, the world’s most widely adopted software for commercial real estate ESG (environmental, social, governance) data management, has closed $18.7 million in Series B funding. Sway Ventures led the ...
CRETech January 16, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO — The e-scooter boom began in Santa Monica, Calif., about 16 months ago. Electric scooters, owned by start-ups looking to mimic the success of ride-hailing companies like Uber, appeared around town. The idea was simple: Use a smartphone app to rent a scooter and then leave it at the end of the ride for the next person.

CRETech January 16, 2019
In August 2016, D.C.-based nonprofit Search for Common Ground was in about 12,000 square feet at 1601 Connecticut Avenue NW and wanted to reduce its office costs and square footage. Cove—a coworking company with hot desks—offered to instead create a private “hub” for the nonprofit at one of its existing coworking locations. The hub allowed Search for Common Ground, which employees 700 ...
CRETech January 16, 2019

Shared-living operators, which specialize in providing housing to low-income millennials, is a burgeoning business. New York-based companies like WeWork and Common, as well as San Jose, California-based Starcity, have each built large co-living developments in various urban neighborhoods.

Medici Living Group is another compan...

CRETech January 16, 2019
Airbnb Inc. said it made money for a second straight year, based on a common measure that excludes some expenses, as the online home-rental service prepares for an initial public offering.
Airbnb said in a memo that it generated earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and...
CRETech January 16, 2019
In this month’s partnership, CPE and Kingsley Associates sought to find out how tenants really feel about the health and fitness options in their offices. “We’d like a covered area for parked bicycles. Employees have complained that during the day the bicy...
CRETech January 16, 2019
New York isn’t giving up on the digital-ledger technology that makes Bitcoin and other tokens work even after last year’s collapse of the cryptocurrency market. The New York City Economic Development Corporation said its Blockchain Center in Manhattan will open Thursday a part of a partnership with affiliates of venture-capital fund Future\Perfect Ventures and the Global Blockchain Business...
CRETech January 16, 2019
Reggora, a Boston-based startup that claims its software can “streamline the appraisal process,” now has $3 million in its coffers to help grow it business.
CRETech January 16, 2019
As commuting patterns change, most office buildings will probably need less parking space. For office developers, that means the parking space they build now has to be flexible enough to become something else later. Though commuting by car is still king, according to CBRE’s U.S. & Canadian Mobility 2018 report, that paradigm is on the verge of disruption. Ride-sharing, autonomous vehicle...