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...
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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...
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 ...
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
Amazon’s one-million-square-foot distribution center in Baltimore is a massive fulfillment machine. Stand at one end of the warehouse, and its titanium-white scaffolding and seemingly endless conveyor belts disappear at a vanishing point that is, somehow, within the building. The machine is a dazzling combination of chutes, ladders, rollers and 11 miles’ worth of conveyor belts.
More and more, savvy customers are willing to share info about themselves and their browsing behavior — but in return, you have to serve up completely personalized content. To learn how companies like Trulia and Pandora flawlessly provide the customized results that click, don’t miss this VB Live event!
To keep up with the rising demand for short-term rentals in U.S. cities and compete with the home-sharing giant Airbnb, travel booking site Expedia has picked up a pair of venture-backed hospitality startups, Pillow and ApartmentJet.
Employees of both ...