Integrated mobility service launched in Rome as part of sustainability plan

Real-Estate Losers in 2020, Like Hotel and Mall Owners, Starred in the First Quarter

Shares of companies that own shopping centers, hotels and New York office buildings were decimated most of last year but mounted a first-quarter comeback, as investors bet that a vaccine rollout can revitalize these hard-hit businesses.

WATCH NOW: Hudson Yards and Beyond: Creating Infrastructure to Support Innovation, Part 1

Scott Evans, Chief Digital Officer at Related Companies discusses the innovation that went in to creating the first-of-it’s-class development, Hudson Yards, and how Related is scaling these capabilities across all of their platforms.

SPACs Bring More Opportunity — And Competition — To The Private Equity World

The explosion of SPACs in the last year has increased competition for private equity to find more traditional buyout targets, but also likely presents more opportunity and a quicker route to capital for those firms.

Former Knotel CEO Accuses Newmark Of Mishandling The Coworking Firm’s Revival

“Over the last few months, Newmark was a stalking horse on a process that used bankruptcy to take control of Knotel with around $100mm of new capital,” Amol reportedly said in an email. “This process undermined lots of important relationships and hurt lots of customers and partners.”

Redfin finalizes $608M RentPath acquisition

The acquisition gives Redfin control of RentPath’s subsidiaries, including Apartment Guide, Rentals.com and Rents.com, Inman reported. Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said that listings from those platforms will appear on the brokerage’s website by 2022, according to the report. The deal closed in 42 days rather than the anticipated 90.

Big Data And AI Target The Built Environment’s High Carbon Footprint

How buildings are built and operated can have far-reaching environmental implications. While there has been some movement toward more sustainable energy portfolios with net-zero energy and net-zero carbon targets for buildings, less focus has been paid to buildings’ embodied carbon.

‘Maybe The Largest Venture Capital Opportunity In History’: Money Pours Into Climate-Focused Proptech

Venture capital firms this year have begun raising hundreds of millions of dollars that they plan to deploy into proptech startups aimed at taking on climate change by making buildings more sustainable.

Smart buildings: what they are, why they matter and who’s already getting smart?

The future of real estate is smart. Not implementing technology for technology’s sake, but the result of a conversation amongst tenants, owners and technologists focused on what the users of buildings actually want. WiredScore created a white paper to clearly identify what smart buildings consist of and why they matter today, featuring unique insight from global industry leaders such as Hines, Skanska, PGIM and Kingsett to name a few.

How cloud architectures defend against the cyber attack surge

As we look to a post-pandemic world, we can expect to see companies invest in building resilience to destructive-type attacks. 2020 saw a record number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and ransomware attacks, and the numbers are expected to remain high through the rest of this decade.