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Must-Watch Retail Trends for 2018 Setting your retail establishment apart from the competition gets more difficult with each passing year thanks to the unstoppable popularity of e-tail. That’s why good store design is so important – not only does it create a pleasurable environment that people will keep coming back to, it also delivers an experience that can’t be matched by impersonal online...
ParkBee, a Netherlands-founded startup that lets private car parks monetize underutilized spaces by making them bookable to the public, has picked up €5 million in new funding The round is led by German-based Statkraft Ventures, with participation from existing investors. Statkraft Ventures is backed by the Statkraft Group, which claims to be Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy. Ori...
Technology plays a huge role in powering the $2 trillion machine that is commercial real estate, and major commercial brokerages are scrambling for a piece of that pie.
Brokerages such as CBRE, Colliers International, Cushman & Wakefield, JLL and Newmark Group have been heating up their tech infrastructure and investment as of late.
“I think it’s probably the biggest underlying trend...
Capillary Technologies, an India-based startup that helps e-commerce businesses manage their marketing and customer engagement, has pulled in $20 million in fresh funding from existing investors Warburg Pincus and Sequoia. The company said it plans to use the capital to develop its products and R&D, including a new focus on the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) space where it works with brands...
The Latest and Greatest By Anca Gagiuc on Feb 22, 2018 in Technology At the beginning there were fitness wearables. They slowly transgressed into fashionable wearables and now can be seen in many industries. These days, the tiny devices, once strapped around the wrist, can be found all over one’s body, including on your fingernails. “We’re seeing lots of not obvious usage scenarios, but once...
Ask Harvey Hernandez about his upcoming real estate project in Kissimmee, Florida, and he’ll respond with the easy charm and outsized boasts endemic to his industry. The 324-unit complex near central Florida’s Disney World, the first of a string of tourism-related developments springing up across the U.S. under the Niido brand name, will merely “change the way people live.” “It’s the r...
A small startup hopes to take on real estate portal giants such as Zillow and Realtor.com using the same tech behind cryptocurrencies including bitcoin and ethereum--though it has a long way to go. Propify, an Australian company that launched in January 2017, aims to use blockchain technology to create an online repository of property listings, home appraisal data, and client reviews of real estat...
There is little doubt that technology is impacting the multifamily sector, from internet usage for marketing purposes, to free Wi-Fi as an amenity, to increasing reliance on big data. Rentlytics, which provides all kinds data and insights to owners and operators, tapped into various experts to focus on multifamily technology trends to watch for in 2018. Some of these included: Technology as a comp...
Commercial Real Estate brokers who work in the transactional market have ten great years ahead of them. Tech is flying at the industry fast and furious, and early adopters are taking advantage of their Beta Tester status. However, those early adopters are more often than not, the letter brands, CBRE, JLL, CW, etc. Global firms whose marketing and tech dollars can be pulled from all their income st...
Over $5 billion was invested in real estate technology in 2017. The sector has strong momentum, and according to Matt Harris from Bain Capital Ventures, we are entering the third wave of real estate technology: The businesses that define the emerging third phase of real estate technology are likely to look more like the earliest technology businesses in the space- more complementary than competi...