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CRETech July 13, 2018
Congratulations! Either you’re already investing in smart technology for your properties, are considering investing while weighing your options, crunching numbers and listening to value propositions of the various companies competing in the space, or you’re a property manager tasked with selling an additional amenity to provide a leg up on the competition. In the end, this technology will not ...
CRETech July 12, 2018
Austin, Texas, July 11, 2018Accruent, the world’s leading provider of physical resource management solutions, announced today the global launch of the Accruent Academy Learning Center, a continuous training resource for customers. The Ac...
CRETech July 12, 2018
CHICAGO–JLL has recruited talent from Google whose goal is to guide the broker into becoming its own proptech shop. Former Google executive Vinay Goel has been tapped as Chief Digital Product Officer, a new position for JLL. Goel’s first day was Tuesday. Goel’s intent in this new role is to refocus JLL’s tech initiatives around products instead of the service orientation the company has...
CRETech July 12, 2018
A few weeks ago we closed our Series B: a $30 million round of funding from an incredibly strategic group of partners. The investors included some of the real estate industry’s largest and most innovative commercial real estate owners alongside real estate focused venture capital funds. We raised this round to accelerate the creation of a new category of technology platform built specifically fo...
CRETech July 12, 2018
The city of lights is now Uber’s city of flying taxi development. That means we’re one step closer to using flying taxis on our commutes, and cities co...
CRETech July 12, 2018
Bryan Copley remembers “the day that the last single-family residence in South Lake Union was bulldozed.” The CityBldr CEO has lived in the same Seattle neighborhood Amazon calls home for about four years. He has watched South Lake Union transform to keep pace with Amazon’s rapid growth, a metamorphosis that is far from complete. “I...
CRETech July 12, 2018
A TYPICAL SINGLE-FAMILY home in the US takes an average of six and a half months to build, according to the Census Bureau’s latest survey. Now an Austin-based startup called Icon can erect a house nearly 200 times faster—in a day.
    CRETech July 12, 2018
    Residential real estate has proven to be a strong driver of economic growth and individual wealth, representing more than 15% of our nation’s GDP. The combined value of housing in the United States reached a record-hig...
    CRETech July 12, 2018
    First came coworking, now comes co-living. In this emerging format of multifamily development, residents have their own private rooms but share kitchens and other areas; it is related to a dorm or hostel, but with stylish furniture, group yoga classes and rents commensurate with an upscale experience. Common, a New York-based company that operates 20 co-living sites in major cities, is expand...
    CRETech July 12, 2018
    Digital technologies have democratized existing data that’s historically been controlled by giant brokerages. The recent emergence of data-driven toolshas transformed the way that commercial real estate firms of all sizes approach their operations. As buzzy a term as “disruption” may be, there’s no denying that the ongoing Fourth Industrial Revolution has already man...