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Colliers International and Booqed Launch Flexible Workspace Solutions Partnership

CRETech December 11, 2018

Adding flexible workspace value for clients within Asia’s rapidly expanding market Hong Kong/Singapore, 6 December 2018– Asia boasts the largest market of flexible workspace and growth globally and by 2022 will represent a larger market than the United States and Europe combined. To provide occupiers in Hong Kong and Singapore access to greater value, sp...

Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret

CRETech December 11, 2018

The millions of dots on the map trace highways, side streets and bike trails — each one following the path of an anonymous cellphone user.

One path tracks someone from a home outside Newark to a nearby Planned Parenthood, remaining there for more than an hour. Another represents a person who travels with the mayor of New York during the day and retu...

WeWork opens startup incubator WeWork Labs in Portland as part of global expansion

CRETech December 11, 2018

Co-working giant WeWork is expanding its WeWork Labs startup incubator concept to Portland, just a few months after doing the same in Seattle. WeWork Labs will open at the company’s Old Town location in Portland — one of three in the city — next month,

NAR vs. the naysayers

CRETech December 11, 2018

It was summer 2017 when Bob Goldberg ascended the stage at the Sheraton Grand Chicago. With Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” playing in the background, Goldberg was introduced as the new “boss” of real estate’s most powerful trade association.

The lifelong Springsteen fan — he’s seen the Boss in con...

Simon Properties to Offer 350kW Charging Stations

CRETech December 11, 2018

Simon Property Group has partnered with Electrify America to open 10 DC fast chargers at San Francisco Premium Outlets in Livermore Valley for public use. The installation marks California’s first location for electric vehicle charging systems featuring fast recharging speeds up to 350 kilowatts (kW).

From Fully Furnished Rooms To Shortened Construction Timelines, This Hotel Takes Advantage Of Modular Construction

CRETech December 11, 2018

Hotels, with their small, identical units, are an ideal match for pre-constructed modular units. Each hotel room can be made in a climate-controlled off-site location and then installed like a Lego block into its permanent home. As construction costs for labor and materials continue to soar, modular units are one way contractors are controlling costs and speeding up delivery time. Mortenson C...

WeWork Hires Colliers to Market Its 220K-SF Dock 72 Space

CRETech December 10, 2018

WeWork has tapped Colliers International to lease out its 220,000 square feet of coworking space at Rudin Development’s and

Placester, tech platform for real estate professionals, slashes staff amid shakeup

CRETech December 10, 2018

Real estate tech platform Placester, which was valued at $200 million last year, has laid off more than 100 employees in a companywide restructuring that will return it to “development mode.”

Changes at the Boston-based firm that provides mobile services to real estate professionals, included its top executive. Its original CEO and co-founder Matt Barba will retur...

CRETECH NEW YORK TAKEAWAYS

CRETech December 10, 2018

This week I had the opportunity to speak at the CREtech conference in NY, and I think the experience I had at the event is representative of where the PropTech space stands at the moment: lots of momentum, lots of excitement, and a lot of unknowns. I first connected with Michael Beckerman in 2015, an...