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CRETECH November 03, 2017
As a commercial real estate professional, you may have toyed with the idea of building a social media presence on popular platforms like Facebook and Twitter but overlooked the fast-growing world of Instagram. Or maybe you’ve already built an excellent social media strategy but never considered Instagram as a strategic addition to your marketing efforts. If you think about it, Instagram might be...
CRETECH November 02, 2017
WeWork will open a new SF HQ in the Salesforce Tower Posted 1 hour ago by Megan Rose Dickey (@meganrosedickey) 0 SHARES Next Story Cisco Spark Assistant bringing voice commands to meeting hardware WeWork has money to blow, so the $20 billion startup is putting some of it toward a second headquarters — this time in San Francisco instead of New York, Recode reports. The plan is to locate the HQ i...
CRETECH November 02, 2017
Convene, the office-space startup backed by Brookfield and the Durst Organization is looking to raise another $150 million in venture funding in a Series D round and plans to launch a property investment fund in the future. The company’s co-founder Ryan Simonetti said the firm already has “verbal commitments” from some existing investors for the Series D round but declined to name them. The ...
CRETECH November 02, 2017
The price tag attests to the demand from a new type of companies for urban space currently occupied by old world department stores. Few retail experts were surprised to learn last week that Hudson’s Bay sold the flagship location of its Lord & Taylor chain on New York’s Fifth Avenue, or that Hudson’s Bay would scale back its square footage at the location. The march of department store c...
CRETECH November 02, 2017
Every year, the National Association of Realtors pours ever-more millions of its members' dues into a for-profit subsidiary that has never produced a profit and which 88 percent of its members don't use regularly … Inman
CRETECH November 01, 2017
Updater Joins Leading Real Estate Companies of the World as Preferred Provider by Jenna Weinerman We're thrilled to announce that Leading Real Estate Companies of the World has named Updater to its Solutions Group program. For LeadingRE member brokerages, this means that Updater is now an approved business and technology provider for all 565 of the high-quality independent, residential real e...
CRETECH November 01, 2017
You can’t have a conversation about economics, labor, and technology these days without mentioning automation. The way computer programs and robotics will be able to reduce costs and increase efficiency is going to have a massive impact on the way we work in a few short years, not just in how we manufacture goods, but how we transport them as well. One of the biggest technological advancements o...
CRETECH November 01, 2017
CoreNet Global The Pulse Blog Search Corporate Real Estate Managers Embrace CoworkingNovember 1, 2017|In CoreNet Global News|By David Harrison Coworking, the style of work marked by open shared spaces among workers of different companies and popularized by “solopreneurs” and tech workers, is quickly being embraced by those who manage real estate needs for large corporations. The trend is explo...
CRETECH November 01, 2017
Hey batter, batter, batter — baseball fans hit Houston with a spike of economic activity.  Between Oct. 27 and 29 — when Minute Maid Park hosted three games of the World Series — Airbnb saw a big uptick in Houston bookings, according to a press release from the San Francisco-based hospitality tech company.  There were about 4,200 Airbnb guests in the Bayou City over the weekend — a 40 pe...
CRETECH November 01, 2017
Hard to believe is it not? Ten years. My profile says I Joined October 2007. Ten years posting whatever commercial real estate thoughts, news, rants, and just about anything else on Twitter. Amazing if you think about it. Ten years is a long time to do a lot of things. Who would have thought Twitter would still be around when it started? Not you, admit it. Did I think it I would still be using Twi...