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  • Workers Care More About Flexible Hours Than Remote Work

    Wall Street Journal

    Workers, flush with power as employers raise wages and scramble to fill open jobs, say they care even more about flexible schedules than whether or not they go into an office. Ninety-five percent of people surveyed want flexible hours, compared with 78% of workers who want location flexibility, according to a new report from Future Forum, a consortium focused on reimagining the future of work led by Slack Technologies Inc….

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  • WeWork Acquiring Flexible Workspace Company Common Desk

    Bisnow

    After a meteoric rise, a failed initial public offering, years of downsizing, a C-suite shakeup and finally a merger with a blank check company, the biggest name in coworking is back in acquisition mode. WeWork has inked a deal to buy Dallas-based flexible workspace provider Common Desk….

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  • MILO LAUNCHES BITCOIN MORTGAGE IN THE U.S.

    Bitcoin Magazine

    Real estate fintech Milo will launch the first U.S. bitcoin mortgage offering, enabling customers to leverage their BTC holdings to purchase properties in the country, the company said in a statement Tuesday. Instead of selling bitcoin for a down payment to qualify for a mortgage, Milo now lets Americans and foreigners use their bitcoin stack as collateral for purchasing real estate in the U.S….

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  • ‘Calling It Real Estate Doesn’t Make It Real Estate’: What CRE Gets Wrong About The Metaverse Land Rush

    Bisnow

    Commercial real estate broker and developer Jay Gaudet’s biggest recent career breakthrough came from watching his daughter play Roblox. When she asked him for money to buy a virtual house on the popular global gaming platform earlier this year, it sent him down a research rabbit hole.

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  • Furniture retailer joins resi design tool for buyers to customise home

    Placetech

    Propster, the digital customer platform that enables buyers and tenants to view and choose fit-out options virtually, has announced a key partnership with specialist furnishing services provider David Phillips.

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  • Flexible Workspaces of the Future, Part 3

    CREtech

    James Shannon, Chief Product & Technology Officer of essensys, discusses how the needs have changed for occupiers of flexible workspace, and what types of portfolio-wide technology landlords should consider in order to stay competitive.

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  • From The Metaverse To Gen Z, What 2022 Will Mean For The Real Estate Sector

    Crunchbase News

    Last year broke real estate tech records with nearly $21 billion in global proptech venture capital investments as technology innovations continued to disrupt conventional real estate asset classes. This is only the start: Proptech represents a fraction of the United States’ multitrillion-dollar real estate industry and the built world is poised for tremendous transformation throughout the decade.

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  • SiteAware, which leverages AI and drones to track construction site progress, nabs additional funding

    VentureBeat

    Construction, particularly commercial construction, is expensive and time-consuming. In the U.S., the average commercial construction cost is around $490 per square foot, and most commercial buildings larger than 10,000 square feet take at least four months to build. As a 2020 survey from Levelset and Fieldwire shows, the process is rarely simple — fewer than 30% of contractors finish large projects on time and within budget. Errors are a significant contributor to overrun, with some sources est…

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  • PlanRadar | ‘Huge global appetite’ for contech fuels $69m fundraise

    Placetech

    Completing one of the largest funding rounds in Austrian history, digital construction management startup PlanRadar has set its sights on the US, Asia and Australia.

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  • What in the world is CREtech doing in Copenhagen?

    Michael Beckerman

    San Diego. London. New York. Those are all of the places CREtech will be heading to in 2022 with our live, in-person events. But Copenhagen? “Huh??” you might ask, and for good reason! Well, as some of you may know, I have made the decarbonizing of the built world my personal mission. The real estate industry is the only business sector I know having spent 35 years in it in various capacities. But it’s also an industry that now is facing the single greatest crisis of my lifetime…the climate cris…

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