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CRETech August 01, 2018
The country’s first blockchain-only real estate trade involved 10 acres of land just north of Los Angeles County. The sale was made through a platform developed by Palo Alto-based real estate startup Propy. The company’s platform records the information of the sale — the purchase agreement, payments, and other essentials — on the public Ethereum blockchain. The amount was unknown.
CRETech August 01, 2018
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CRETech August 01, 2018

Bruce Schaller, a transit consultant who served as deputy commissioner for traffic and planning in New York City, released a new report (“Automobility”) Wednesday examining the effect of transit network companies (TNCs) like Lyft and Uber on city traffic.

While Schaller’s findings hi...

CRETech August 01, 2018
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Foreign exchange settlement provider CLS, IBM (IBM.N) and nine financial institutions, including Barclays Plc (BARC.L) and Citigroup Inc (
CRETech August 01, 2018
In today's digital age, the dominant narrative is that e-commerce has fully eclipsed physical retail. The truth looks a bit different.
CRETech August 01, 2018

Retailers are increasingly using technology like geolocation mapping and virtual shopping assistants in an attempt to increase shoppers' loyalty.

Why it matters: "Physical retail is not dead. Boring retail is," Steve Dennis, strategic adviser on retail growth, wrote in

CRETech July 31, 2018

The Leading Commercial Real Estate Tech Platform in the U.S. and Built World Technology Alliance of India Structure International Partnership

NEW YORK, July 31, 2018 – CREtech(cretech.com), the leading event, content and connectivity platform for the commercial real estate industry, announced today a colla...
CRETech July 31, 2018
When WeWork started off in 2010, it made a name for itself as a solution for freelancers and small companies in search of a desk. In recent years, it started targeting big corporations as customers. Now, the co-working giant is turning its attention to the office market’s forgotten middle class: firms with 10 to 250 employees. “You’re going to start to see us do more and more stuff that...
CRETech July 31, 2018
As proptech firms search for data evangelists, the likes of which have drastically changed real estate, Wall Street is ready to pay big bucks for transformative information. Alternative data–often obscure, custom-sourced data sets–are selling for tens of thousands of dollars among ...
CRETech July 31, 2018
This week WeWork announced that its Chinese subsidiary — WeWork China — raised an additional $500 million in capital in a deal led by