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CRETech October 31, 2018
Rory Golod — who for two years was Compass CEO Robert Reffkin’s right-hand-man — has been tapped as general manager of the firm’s New York region. As GM, Golod will oversee Compass’ 1,400 agents and 18 offices in New York, where the SoftBank-backed brokerage has been increasing its brick-and-mortar footprint.
CRETech October 31, 2018
Grocers are stocking their warehouses with robots and artificial intelligence to increase efficiency as competition for consumer spending on food picks up. Robots are relatively new to the food industry, where customer interaction is common and many go...
CRETech October 31, 2018
JLL Spark, the proptech investment arm of commercial real estate services firm JLL, continues to show its support for startups with another move through its JLL Spark Global Venture Fund. The firm recently led a $1.5 million strategic investment in VergeSense, provider of an AI-Powered sensor-as-a-service plat...
CRETech October 31, 2018
When Yale Fox debuted Rentlogic in 2013, the Canadian transplant wanted to give New York City renters a resource so they never had to rent another terrible apartment from another terrible landlord ever again. “Policy and enforcement are the best scalable ways to fix social issues,” Fox said during a local 2015 TedTalk event, “but what do you do when the other player on the field is the la...
CRETech October 31, 2018
Gen Z — the cohort that is now filling up college housing — is both frugal and social. After watching their parents struggle through the Great Recession, this generation knows the value of saving money. If that means co-living with other students, so be it. “They are a generation that is very similar to the post-Depression generation,” GGLO Director of Campus Environments and principal ...
CRETech October 31, 2018
Flexible office providers have been on a leasing tear this year. Last quarter, WeWork added 500K SF in Manhattan, surpassing JPMorgan Chase as the biggest private office tenant in the borough, while Spaces leased around 300K SF, taking several big blocks of space off the market, according to Savills Studley.
CRETech October 31, 2018
Nobody, not even transportation experts like me, had an inkling that ride-on-demand services like Uber would change our travel habits so quickly and dramatically. Never in our lifetime have we witnessed such a rapid shift in transportation. Despite global protests,
CRETech October 30, 2018
Do you ever get that feeling when you walk into a beautiful home, and wish you had the magic touch that inspired the design? The kitchen tile is perfect. The flooring matches the wall decorations, and the colors of the furniture just flows naturally with the home’s aura. Stylyze wants to help those of us who are a bit challenged when it co...
CRETech October 30, 2018
It was the eyes that got me. A few seconds after I clicked the button on the back of my Vector, a new $249 gerbil-sized robot toy from Anki, its eyes blinked open. They were just green pixels on the Vector’s small screen, arranged in a squarish shape above the real eye, a wide-angle camera.
CRETech October 30, 2018
The cost of housing is out of reach for many residents in cities such as Los Angeles and Seattle. One solution is called co-living, and it looks a lot like dorm life. Co-living projects are trying to fill a vacuum between low-income and luxury housing in expensive housing markets where people in the middle are left with few choices.