Nuveen Pledges Net-Zero Emissions For Entire $133B Portfolio By 2040

One of the world’s biggest real estate owners has pledged to dramatically reduce the environmental impact of its portfolio. Nuveen, which has $133B worth of real estate assets under management across the Americas, Europe and Asia, has pledged to make all of its properties carbon neutral by 2040, Financial Times reports. The target represents a 10-year acceleration from the 2050 pledge it signed in response to the youth-led climate strike of 2019 and matches the target CBRE Global Investors recen…

Newly Remote Workers Face Reckoning As Back-To-Office Push Accelerates

In a year of so much discomfort, many workers have settled into the notion that remote work, perhaps an afterthought in years past, may actually work for them. Owners of office space are understandably nervous that the future for many people may include fewer commutes and, for companies, a corresponding need for less commercial office space.

The Honeycomb Effect: A Cloud Native Approach to Connecting and Enriching Addresses

In Proptech (both commercial and residential), accurate and robust address data is essential to effectively doing business.  However, across the board, companies are challenged with finding an effective strategy for organizing and consistently cleansing, connecting, and enriching address data.

CREtech+ Streaming Platform To Feature Michael Turner of Oxford Properties in “The Legends” Series Episode

Michael Turner Selected As CREtech+ Legend For His Extraordinary Leadership And Contributions To The Commercial Real Estate Industry New York, NY (March 22, 2021) — CREtech+, (www.plus.cretech.com), the video streaming platform devoted to innovation in the Built World, has announced that Michael Turner, President at Oxford Properties will be featured as a “Legend” in their exclusive new video series as part of the subscription service. The Legends Series will profile some of the most impactful r…

The suburbs aren’t what they used to be. These 6 strategies can make them even better

The suburbs are changing. The homogenous picket-fence bedroom communities of decades past are becoming more economically and demographically diverse, less architecturally homogenous, and, unfortunately, more impoverished. They’re also becoming, well, less suburban.   …

London makes major new investment in air quality monitoring

Why Did PropTech Company Latch Pick This Particular SPAC?

With about 300 special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, looking for companies to take public, property technology company Latch chose TS Innovation Acquisition (NASDAQ:TSIA). In this Fool Live video clip, recorded on March 8, Fool.com contributor Matt Frankel, CFP, asks Latch CEO Luke Schoenfelder why the Tishman Speyer-sponsored SPAC could be an excellent fit for this fast-growing business.  …

Google to Invest $7B Office and Data Centers This Year

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, has announced that the company plans to invest more than $7 billion in offices and data centers across the US this year.  In the process, it will create at least 10,000 new full-time Google jobs in the US in communities that are new to Google, while also expanding in others across 19 states.

The 5G Tower Party Is Just Getting Started

One of the ironies of the smartphone revolution has been how little the companies that built the 4G networks underpinning it benefited. While having to invest heavily in stronger signals, mobile operators have struggled to charge customers for downloading more data. Despite a recent bounce, stocks such as Verizon Communications in the U.S. and Vodafone VOD -1.39% in Europe have massively underperformed their host stock markets over five years. …

WATCH NOW: An Introduction to CREtech Climate

Join us for our first webinar, An Introduction to CREtech Climate: Exploring the Case for Decarbonizing the Built World and Promoting ESG Initiatives. We will explore our collective mission to decarbonize the Built World by promoting the adoption and investment of climate technologies as well as the importance of sustainability/ESG initiatives. CREtech and CREtech Climate CEO, Michael Beckerman, will welcome real estate industry leaders from Fifth Wall, EY, Savills, Building Transparency, an…