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Women-only co-working provider The Wing is taking flight by opening six locations in five new cities. The startup, which opened its first location in Manhattan's Flatiron neighborhood in 2016, will add spaces in San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Toronto and London, as well as one in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, the New York Post reports. The Wing The Wing, New York City No s...

Alarm in the retail industry spurred by high vacancies and by Amazon's automated foray into physical retailing is pushing brands to automate faster than ever before.  The race is on to install cost-cutting tech, such as cashierless checkout and automated inventories, to buttress retailers' bleeding bottom lines. Kgbo/Wikimedia Retail vacancies are high, reports the Wall Street Journal, citing ...

The world’s biggest e-commerce firms are not really thinking about big-box logistics any more. They are firmly focused on how to best get their goods as quickly as possible into big, dense, urban environments. And that leads their thoughts to taking over space that is now not needed by retailers. Flickr IN 48 DAYS! DON'T MISS THE BISNOW'S BUILD TO RENT ANNUAL CONFERENCE -- London 22.05.2018 Th...

The global real estate tech (proptech) market took a hit in Q1 2018.  Total investments in the real estate tech startups fell to $1.4 billion, a 26 percent decline since Q1 2017 and a dramatic 75.5 percent since Q4 2017. Coupled with the lack of newly formed startups entering the market, 18 in Q1 2018, and the lack of market stability, the decline in venture capital investments is a cause for ...

Financial-technology firm GreenSky LLC has confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a sizable initial public offering that could come as soon as this summer, according to people familiar with the matter. The Atlanta company, which operates a lending platform that enables retailers, health-care providers and home contractors to offer loans to their customers...

The discount residential brokerage Purplebricks is launching in New York today with a simple message: In 2018, why are consumers still paying a 6 percent fee to sell their home? “Our view is that in 2018 no one should be paying 5, 6 or 7 percent to sell their home, given the changing consumer behavior and access to information and viable alternatives,” said Eric Eckardt, the company’s U.S...

Data-driven technology has entered the commercial real estate sphere. Several industries use data and predictive analytics to better understand what customers want. Political strategists collect and analyze data on voter demographics, and e-commerce platforms study consumer spending habits to market products to consumers based on individual interests. Now, CRE is catching up. Landlords are leverag...