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BOSTON—Investors cannot seem to get enough of Seaport Center—especially Related Beal—or so it would seem amidst industry rumors claiming that CRE powerhouse is about to acquire the 477,000-sf Class B office building for the second time in a dozen years ... MORE
Zillow Group has quietly started charging builders and their agents for listings that were previously free on its website, causing some agents to worry what revenue stream the company may try to tap next.
Homebuilders, or their agents, with 150 closings per year or more are required to join Zillow’s Promoted Communities program, Inman reported. Under the program, the builder must pay a monthl...
Elon Musk’s fabled Hyperloop got some good news recently when, rather than a vague tweet from Musk saying he had “verbal govt approval” for the project, the effort received an actual permit from the Washington D.C. government to do some excavation work. And while the project itself is still very far off f...
A new startup backed by Alphabet and funded by Sidewalk Labs could help cities leverage their curbs. Unsplash/Jonathan Riley Named Coord, the startup uses technology to map cities in order to provide municipalities and transportation companies like ride-hail, bike-share and car-share providers with a detailed guide of how curbs can be used, Fast Company reports. Rather than using street imagery...
MENLO PARK, Calif. — John Tenanes, Facebook’s vice president for real estate, is showing off the company’s plans for expansion. It will have offices for thousands of programmers to extend Facebook’s fearsome reach. But that is no...
Disruption may be the most overused word of the modern business environment. But the message does not seem to have gotten through to those leading real estate companies across the globe. A new report from the Urban Land Institute and PwC contains a datapoint highlighting the potential complacency still exhibited in real estate about the impact technological and social change will have on the ind...
It might sound unglamorous, but back-end listing systems for residential firms are the startup world’s latest meal ticket.
Long the domain of two companies in New York — RealPlus and On-Line Residential —the space is being upended by new tech startups with venture money to burn.
“In the past, a listings platform was enough,” said Michae...
Wikimedia/SoftBank Hankyu-Ibaraki When Japanese technology firm SoftBank announced it would be raising $90B or more for its Vision fund the emphasis was on making big bets in the technologies that would define the future. There was little indication that a massive part of its investment strategy would focus on real estate. In the past two years, SoftBank has invested more than $10B in real estate ...
Commercial real estate is not the fas...