Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
The Fort Podcast
Sce Pike is the Founder and CEO of IOTAS, a complete smart apartment ecosystem with simple installation giving residents the best user experience for their Smart Apartments. On this episode, she and Chris talk about the early days of the startup, the importance of getting right in front of your customers, how IOTAS is helping us… …
TechCrunch
For several years, blockchain technology has been touted as a way to verify the sale of property. Any kind of property. And so entrepreneurs busily began the process of trying to create a startup that could complete a property deal on the blockchain.
Wall Street Journal
As coronavirus lockdowns drag on, IT leaders are feeling hard-pressed to keep collaboration fresh among their remote workforces through video chat and other digital tools. So some are turning to virtual reality. Fidelity Investments Inc., the financial services firm, has been exploring how virtual reality could be used to build workplace relationships among new employees working remotely. In May, it shipped brand-new virtual reality headsets made by Pico Interactive Inc. to more than 140 employe…
IPE Real Assets
BlackRock Real Assets has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Taiwanese solar energy firm New Green Power (NGP), in a deal which supports BlackRock’s commitment to investing across Asia Pacific. This is BlackRock’s third investment in NGP, but, as with its previous deals with NGP, the value of the latest transaction was not disclosed.
The New York Times
After tourists stopped arriving this spring, the 607-room property transformed into housing for doctors and nurses treating coronavirus patients. When they checked out, the high-rise began offering blocks of rooms as office space. And with its reopening this month, the InterContinental will again play office landlord, this time on a suite-by-suite basis.
Wall Street Journal
Bill Gross bet early on the internet and got rich with a stable of startups. He’s hoping to be right a second time in staking his money and reputation on green energy. The pandemic, by decimating oil demand, crashing prices and challenging the economics of some fossil-fuel projects, has accelerated some industry moves toward low-carbon energy. In Mr. Gross’s view, it has also leveled the playing field for green energy’s drive to displace fossil fuels.
The Washington Post
From his home base on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Anton Andryeyev is running Twitter’s efforts to chase Russian bots and other rogue actors off the platform. A year ago, he traded his office in the company’s San Francisco headquarters for this tropical home office 2,000 miles away, surrounded by stand-up paddle boards and a monitor large enough to see his entire 25-person engineering team all at once.
Estates Gazette
The built environment plays a significant role in carbon emissions, which means we have both a responsibility and an opportunity to make a difference. As a business we have committed to becoming net zero by 2030, and we’ve done a lot of work to identify how we’re going to achieve that, from working with occupiers to reduce their emissions to changing how we design and build to decrease embodied carbon emissions in the development process.
WorkSpace
WorkSpace is an Asset and Portfolio Operating Platform that provides centralized visibility into the financial and operational life of your investments. With an elegant, simple interface, it removes the friction between assets, data, and people. We’ve built a better way to manage real estate, with as few clicks as possible and give you the ability to make better decisions, faster.
PlaceTech.
The Madrid-based European private equity real estate manager has become an investor in Fifth Wall’s first European Real Estate Technology Fund. Los Angeles-based Fifth Wall is the largest venture capital firm specialising in proptech and has one of the leading strategic advisory platforms focused on real estate technology.
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