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  • Turning empty office buildings into housing could instantly transform post-COVID cities

    Fast Company

    The typical American business district is antithetical to the concept of the 15-minute city, which provides all your basic needs within a 15-minute walk or bike ride. Office buildings are segregated in one neighborhood, and most workers end up commuting by car. But if some office buildings stay empty post-pandemic, a portion of that space could be turned into housing, creating a mixed-use area out of a neighborhood that previously had only one use….

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  • Acrew Capital, Jeff Bezos back Colombia-based proptech La Haus’ $100M debt, equity round

    Tech Crunch

    La Haus, which has developed an online real estate marketplace operating in Mexico and Colombia, has secured $100 million in additional funding, including $50 million in equity and $50 million in debt financing. The new capital was obtained as an extension to the company’s Series B, the first tranche of which closed in January. With the latest infusion, Medellin, Colombia-based La Haus has now secured $135 million total for the round and over $158 million in funding since its 2017 inception….

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  • Groceries in 10 Minutes: Delivery Start-Ups Crowd City Streets Across Globe

    The New York Times

    LONDON — Zipping around central London, among the bikes and scooters of Uber Eats, Just Eat and Deliveroo, is a new entrant promising almost instantaneous satisfaction for your craving for a bar of chocolate or pint of ice cream: Getir, a Turkish company that says it will deliver your groceries in 10 minutes.

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  • Work-from-home threat “overstated,” Boston Properties CEO says

    The Real Deal

    One of the nation’s largest office landlords isn’t worried about the rise of remote work. While the continued work-from-home trend will have a long-term impact on the office market, the threat is “overstated” for landlords of Class A office space, Boston Properties CEO Owen Thomas said Wednesday.

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  • Data, Connectivity Keys to Proptech’s Role in Smart Cities: CO Experts

    Commercial Observer

    Style and substance go hand in hand, as both innovation and data collection have laid the foundation for technology’s future in real estate. Spanning three days, the latest Commercial Observer forum — the inaugural IGNITEevent — identified the opportunities that the property technology (proptech) sphere has created for growth within the industry.

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  • MSCI to Buy Real Capital Analytics for $950M

    GlobeSt

    In another sign of the ongoing consolidation in the commercial real estate information sector, MSCI Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Real Capital Analytics for $950 million in cash. Founded in 2000, Real Capital Analytics is a private company that has built a strong reputation within the CRE community for aggregating transaction data and providing intelligence on market pricing, capital flows and investment trends.

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  • Realtors® Believe Drones, Cyber Security Are Real Estate Industry’s Most Impactful Emerging Technologies

    Yahoo! Finance

    Realtors® view drones and cyber security as the most impactful emerging technologies to their business, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors®. NAR’s 2021 Technology Survey examined NAR members’ current tech usage and attitudes about the future of real estate technology. In addition to drones (37%) and cyber security (34%), Realtors®believe that 5G (31%) and virtual reality (30%) will also have a significant impact on their business in the next 24 months….

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  • BREAKING: NavigatorCRE raises $17.2M Series A to accelerate state-of-the-art data analytics and visualization adoption in Commercial Real Estate

    NavigatorCRE

    Seattle, WA Aug 3rd, 2021 – NavigatorCRE, a leading edge commercial real estate (CRE) data analytics SaaS platform completed its Series A funding round, led by Fulcrum Equity Partners and was joined by existing investors. The Seattle based start-up, whose founders were all prominent commercial real estate veterans, saw a huge gap in the technology that serves this industry and found that most operators from Asset Managers to Brokers have extremely limited capabilities to unlock the power of da…

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  • Data, Connectivity Keys to Proptech’s Role in Smart Cities: CO Experts

    Commercial Observer

    Style and substance go hand in hand, as both innovation and data collection have laid the foundation for technology’s future in real estate. Spanning three days, the latest Commercial Observer forum — the inaugural IGNITEevent — identified the opportunities that the property technology (proptech) sphere has created for growth within the industry.

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  • Self-Leasing to Smart Buildings: What’s Next in CRE Tech, Part 2

    CREtech+

    John Helm, Partner at RET Ventures, speaks to the value of self-leasing technology, and what options become available to tenants and owners with ubiquitous wifi.

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