Colliers Appoints Experienced Leader as Head of Technology & Innovation for the U.S.

Tony Clark Joins Colliers as Senior Vice President  ATLANTA, January 5, 2021 – Colliers announced today that veteran technology executive Tony Clark has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Technology & Innovation (T&I), leading the U.S. T&I platform. This strategic hire represents an evolution in the way the business considers and utilizes technology and will positively impact its professionals and clients. In his new role, Clark will focus on elevating the company’s g…

New Speakers Announced For CREtech’s Upcoming Business Intelligence Virtual Summit

CREtech (cretech.com), the largest intelligence platform devoted to Reimagining Real Estate, announced today that several new speakers will join the outstanding speaker lineup for the company’s Reimagining Real Estate Business Intelligence (BI) Summit on January 26-29. The BI Summit will bring together thousands of the world’s biggest landlords, owners, developers and brokers to network and discuss strategies, case studies and thought leadership regarding the growing importance of data….

UPCOMING WEBINAR: How Landlords Can Generate ROI By Adopting Tech Within Their Portfolios and Properties

Join our next CREtech Consulting Talk to hear from several of our world-class Consultants, Advisors and guest speakers as they share insights on how landlords and developers can best generate an ROI on their tech adoption strategies. Learn more about how to select technology solutions that will drive an immediate return to a company’s bottom line while also creating great efficiencies and measurable results.

SPAC avalanche has good outcome for public markets, economy

An avalanche of special purpose acquisition companies — better known as SPACs — raised capital this year to help startups bypass the lengthy and difficult IPO process. Why it matters: Having more public companies is widely viewed as healthy for the markets and for the American economy, even if the SPAC path elicited skepticism and accusations of froth.

City Apartment REITs Await the Return to the Office

Shares of real-estate investment trusts that are big owners of rental apartments in New York, San Francisco and other large urban areas got clobbered last year as investors worried about the pandemic’s impact on cities.

Why red states like Texas threaten Silicon Valley’s supremacy

If you’re a New York politician and you have nothing else to talk about, you can always bemoan the disparity between what New Yorkers send to Albany and Washington in taxes and what they get back in programs and services. The same is true for most major cities. Los Angeles and San Francisco subsidize the rest of California, and California’s taxes helps subsidize the federal government.

Brookfield Offers to Take Brookfield Property Partners (BPY) Private

Brookfield Asset Management Inc. and a group of investors have offered to acquire the stake in Brookfield Property Partners that they don’t already own, in a $5.9 billion bid to take the real estate company private.

10 energy and climate issues to watch in 2021

From presidential aspirations to oil to corporate positioning, here’s what I’m watching this year. The big picture: After the year that wasn’t, well, everything we thought it would be, 2021 will be a messy mix of the pandemic (still) and reviving all that it sidelined on all things, including energy and climate change.

Tiny Apartment Sales Soar in Hong Kong, World’s Priciest Housing Market

In the world’s least affordable housing market, one in eight homes sold is a nano apartment, a term widely used to describe tiny homes in Hong Kong. A record 13% of apartments sold in 2019 were less than 260 square feet (24 square meters), or smaller than two car-parking spaces, according to a report by Liber Research Community released Monday. These tiny units accounted for just 0.2% of total sales in 2010….

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