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CRETech July 17, 2018
Amazon will cause a seismic shift in the real estate market wherever it places its second headquarters, and one startup is gearing up to get in on the ground floor. CityBldr, an app that uses a machine-learning algorithm to find clusters of single-family homes zoned for multifamily and sell them for higher prices, is committing to open a third office wherever Amazon HQ2 lands, GeekWire reports...
CRETech July 16, 2018

From food-delivery startups to mapping and co-living companies, technology focused on urban systems is drawing billions of dollars in venture capital.

CRETech July 16, 2018
The coworking wave continues to flood Boston.  WeWork will open its 10th Boston location at One Seaport in the city’s Seaport neighborhood this winter. The coworking giant, a rapidly growing presence in Boston’s office community, will open the newest location on the second floor of One Seaport at 77 Sleeper St. “In the last year, the Seaport has reached a tipping point, becoming a mag...
CRETech July 16, 2018
While the world may be in a late-stage real estate cycle, a new report says investment in technology and municipality risk management can keep positive momentum alive for years to come. Despite much of the real estate community speculating how many innings are left in the current era of high demand and not enough supply, the global real estate market continues to post strong returns amid a gene...
CRETech July 16, 2018
Who is going to win the Scooter Wars? Startups like Bird, Lime and Spin have invaded dozens of U.S. cities with their tech-savvy scooter fleets in the last few months. Investors are pouring hundreds of millions into the scooter companies with the hope that the best-capitalized scooter company will win. But ...
CRETech July 16, 2018
SoftBank Group Corp. is rolling out a new app that will let drivers find and reserve parking spaces across Japan. The new service, called BLUU Smart Parking, will let drivers find open parking spots, reserve them in advance and pay fees using smartphones. Each location will have cameras and magnetic sensors to monito...
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...