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CRETech July 16, 2018
Apartment renters have come to expect green building features like good indoor air quality and energy efficiency, making them more of a requirement in many markets. Sustainable design features including energy efficiency and good indoor air quality are now becoming so common that they are almost taken for granted. “What used to be exceptional is now everyday,” says Dave ...
CRETech July 16, 2018

Blue Sky Ventures, a new venture capital fund from Yash Gupta, Anuj Puri and CapitalM (RMZ Family Office), lends support to India’s first CRETech community and annual event.

Mumbai, Maharashtra (July 16th, 2018) -- India’s real estate industry leaders have announced their support for the new ‘Built World Technology Alliance’, which has been founded to ac...
CRETech July 16, 2018
More than 25,000 luxury apartments across the U.S. will benefit from this project designed to improve connectivity and operational efficiencies. A partnership of Alliance Residential Co., Dwelo, Nest and Google has launched its Alliance SmartHome technology pack designed to improve connectivity and operational efficienci...
CRETech July 13, 2018
When Portland startup Vacasa raised $103 million last year, it set the stage for a flurry of new products, and now the company is pulling back the curtain on the first one. Vacasa is expanding beyond its bread and butter service of vacation rental management to offer a...
CRETech July 13, 2018
Katerra, a self-described end-to-end provider of building services that is valued at over $3 billion, today announced plans to open a new advanced manufacturing factory in Tracy, California. The factory is expected to begin production in 2019 and to employ 500 people. Founded in 2015, Menlo Park-based Katerra most recently raised an
CRETech July 13, 2018
Pointy​,​ the​ ​startup​ ​that​ offers tech to help ​bricks and mortar​ ​retailers, put their stock online so that it can be discovered via search engines, has picked up $12 million in new funding. The Series B round is led by Polaris Partners and Vulcan Capital, and brings total funding for the Irish company to $19 million. Founded on t...
CRETech July 13, 2018
WeWork, the shared and flexible workspace giant that opened its fourth Atlanta location Wednesday, expects to have as many as 20 centers in the city within two years. That's what WeWork Southeast General Manager Bobby Condon told a group of Atlanta dignitaries, real estate executives and WeWork employees at the opening of its Terminus location. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who told the c...
CRETech July 13, 2018
It has been one of the pillars of modern office design and workplace theory: open offices, with fewer walls, doors and spatial boundaries, encourage interaction and collaboration between workers. A central tenet of the coworking phenomenon is the prevailing assumption that mingling with co-workers will expose you to a bounty of new ideas — and large corporates in all fields have taken the b...
CRETech July 13, 2018
Serial entrepreneur Rob Finlay, who has been launching commercial real estate-oriented companies for nearly 20 years, kicked off his latest venture this week with the public launch of Lyra Intel. The Lyra Intel platform, which attaches to existing property management systems, collects data about properties and tenants and offers it in a dashboard format. That kind of easy-to-grasp presentation...
CRETech July 13, 2018
Earlier this week, Amazon announced that it has opened virtual reality kiosks in 10 shopping malls to promote its upcoming Prime Day shopping event. Now you can see the Amazon VR experience for yourself. Prepare to be impressed: It’s signi...