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CRETech December 19, 2018
This year, we've done our fair share of traveling around the country to various conferences and events, telling attendees all about the importance of tenant experience software in commercial real estate. One constant conference for us was CREtech – we followed Michael Beckerman and his team around, from Boston, to Chicago, to LA, to San Francisco, and just last week, to New York City. We enjoyed...
CRETech December 19, 2018

Building Engines, the commercial real estate (CRE) industry’s innovation leader for property operations platforms, and backed by Wavecrest Growth Partners, today announced the appointment of Scott Morey, Executive Director of GPG Advisers, to the company’s Board of Directors.

With 30 years of global experience in the real estate industry...

CRETech December 19, 2018
When a major corporation is looking to open a new headquarters, or a national training facility, or an expansive office complex, location weighs heavily on its decision. However, there are a host of other factors that corporations look to when deciding where to move. For companies doing business in Lake Nona—the 17-square-mile master-planned community in Orlando, Florida—location is just on...
CRETech December 19, 2018
(Reuters) — U.S. supermarket chain Kroger said on Tuesday it has started using unmanned autonomous vehicles to deliver groceries in Scottsdale, Arizona in partnership with Silicon Valley startup Nuro. The delivery service follows a pilot program started by the com...
CRETech December 19, 2018
Less than a week after nailing down 80,000 square feet around Manhattan, fast-growing coworking company Knotel secured another nearly 100,000 square feet in five buildings, the company announced. In the largest deal, Knotel signed a 12-year lease...
CRETech December 19, 2018
Airbnb continues to make moves signaling a desire for greater control over the properties listed on its platform. The home-sharing industry leader has acquired Luckey Homes, a company based in France that provides property management services for residences used as short-term rentals, Skift reports. Acquiring a company rather than partnering with it is somewhat of a rarity for Airbnb, accord...
CRETech December 19, 2018
Warehouse automation startup RightHand Robotics Inc. raised $23 million in a new funding round to add staff and develop more applications for its mechanical picking technology. The Somerville, Mass., company’s system, designed for e-commerce operations, incorporates artificial intelligence and cameras that perceive depth and color with a
CRETech December 19, 2018
Far too often has the CRE industry been held up as an example of a sector that is lagging when it comes to innovation, digitalization and embracing the fourth industrial economy.
But the CRETech (sometimes also called PropTech) industry is picking up pace and quickly. Billions of dollars have been invested into t...
CRETech December 18, 2018
PITTSBURGH—Have you as a landlord ever made a call to a tenant asking where a payment was, only to find it was paid but the supporting documentation was still floating in cyberspace? The trouble clearly was not with the payment; it was with tracking the data that supports it. A growing trend toward receivables automation might put an end to such calls, and streamline the payment process — a...
CRETech December 18, 2018
What is the most critical element of a functional workplace? Beauty and space are important. But recently, Microsoft has learned that creating the right balance of human energy in a space is most important. That is, creating a space that works for how people really use it. We call this critical standard employee experience, and over the past few years it has become the No.1 element we de...