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By Nav Athwal No comments 0 likes Real Estate Crowdfunding I started RealtyShares four years ago with the idea of creating a company that would make real estate more accessible, efficient, and transparent. RealtyShares has come a long way since those early days in my living room. It is now a 100-person operation and the leading platform for online real estate investing and capital formation. None ...

You can’t be a CRE blogger and not talk about Amazon. They have single-handedly impacted not only the way the entire retail space operates, but the physical structures of commercial real estate, as well. More recently, I’ve talked about my thoughts on Amazon Go and some other ways the ecommerce behemoth has been shaking up literally everything we know. But today, I want to talk about friction....

The world is going mobile, and your CRM shouldn’t be left behind. If you don’t have all your resources at your fingertips, you risk losing your clients to more nimble agents. Having the full resources of your CRM available mobile is essential moving into 2018. Here are just a few of the reasons why: #1: Information at your fingertips A mobile-enabled CRM keeps all of your information at your f...

WeWork is making aggressive moves in London to sell space to global banks that are uncertain of their plans post-Brexit. The $20 billion co-working startup has been going on a hiring spree to attract corporate clients, including a recent hire from Bank of America specifically to go after the banking sector, the Financial Times reported. Those familiar with the company’s strategy said it is looki...

New York City isn't quite ready for a timber tower, but Brooklyn is about to take a crack at low-rise office and retail buildings made of wood. Flank, an architecture and development firm, is building two timber-filled commercial buildings at 320 and 360 Wythe Avenue in South Williamsburg. The firm is billing the projects as the first wooden structures to be built in the city in nearly a cent...

Startup office provider Knotel is continuing its prolific rate of expansion with two new deals for office space in Downtown and Midtown Manhattan, pushing the company’s portfolio to more than 500,000 square feet under lease. In the Downtown deal, Knotel agreed a 10-year lease last week for 23,429 square feet at 123 William Street in the Financial District, it announced Monday. The company will o...

Retailers are putting in orders for Tesla’s electric semitrucks even before they hit the market. Though the vehicles will not start shipping until 2019, the environmental and cost benefits have Walmart and Loblaw Cos. signing up to be among the first to add the trucks to their delivery fleet. The push to order the trucks is in line with Loblaw’s goal of reducing its emissions impact by 2030. T...

Buildout CEO Vishu Ramanathan discusses how far CRE technology has come in the last decade and where it’s going in the years to come. Duke and I recently sat down for his podcast to talk about how far CRE technology has come in just the last decade and where it’s going in the near future. The old cliché that the CRE industry is behind the times may have been true 10 years ago, but it’s not ...

Smart cities with high speed internet functioning at a city-wide level are popping up from the deserts of Saudi Arabia to suburban Phoenix and Melbourne. Along with these built-from-scratch cities, the market for the technology that holds them together is projected to be worth $34.4 billion per year by 2020, according to Curbed. Most cities are incorporating the technologies within pre-existing in...

Smart cities are all the rage; everyone wants one, but can they truly sustain one? One Chinese researcher says no. Xiongan was envisioned in April by Chinese President Xi Jinping as a smart city with high tech amenities and an economy that would run off green technologies instead of its historic industry. But an expert affiliated with the state planner recently stepped forward to cast doubt on the...