VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE: Putting the Pieces Together, A Fully-Connected Multifamily Community

IOTAS, premier provider of cutting edge integrated Smart Apartment Technology solutions, teams up with leaders in connectivity, access control, management, and other property technologies to explore options available for today’s multifamily and mixed-use assets, and how to pull the pieces together to create optimal experiences for residents and management teams alike.

Fly on the Wall: Ari Mir, Clutter + Brendan Wallace, Fifth Wall

In episode 27 of Fly on the Wall, Brendan sits down with Ari Mir, CEO & Co-Founder of portfolio company Clutter. The two discuss Clutter’s door-to-door self-storage platform, how technology-enabled warehouses have impacted the industry, and the software Clutter developed to organize its facilities. They also discuss trends the company is seeing as a result of COVID-19, including migrations out of Manhattan and San Francisco. Finally, Ari shares his vision for the future of storage, which inv…

ICD Brookfield Place Selects Facilio to Deliver on a Connected & Sustainable Built Environment

The Reimagining Real Estate Sustainability Summit – Last chance to register FREE

With just one week to go to the CREtech Sustainability Summit, we wanted to share the full agenda with you so you can start planning your schedule. The conference is entirely virtual so you can pop in and out during the sessions that are important to you and multitask with the conversations playing in the background….

CREtech Consulting Report: Reimagining Cities and the Entire Built World

CREtech is proud to introduce our new monthly content series focused on our Global Innovation Consulting Practice. Each month we will take a deep dive on an important trend in the world of real estate technology and innovation. These themes, which are carefully selected by our world-class team of Consultants and Advisors, will then be released to our community through a series of insightful webinars, blogs and market research. CREtech Consulting Talks: Reimagining Cities and the Entire Built Wo…

Brookfield Properties Lays Off 20 percent of Retail Employees

Brookfield Properties, one of the largest mall owners in the country, plans to lay off 20 percent of its retail staff, according to a report by CNBC.

Proptech Firm Truss To Be Absorbed Into Avison Young

A proptech startup that provides an online leasing marketplace for office tenants has joined one of the major brokerage firms. Avison Young announced Tuesday it acquired the intellectual property and other select assets of Truss, a Chicago-based proptech company founded in 2016.

Free Resource: 5 Actionable Tools to Boost Your Data-Driven Lease-Risk Assessment Process

In 2020, relying on traditional data to assess risk simply does not stand the test of reality. Okapi’s CEO Iris Cedon shares actionable lessons from building the first AI lease-risk prediction tool. In this article you’ll find best practices for supercharging your lease-risk assessment process, and a free worksheet that will help you monitor the health of your existing process.

Saks CEO: Retail has failed customers. Here’s how to fix it

Let’s get this one out of the way—despite all of the headlines, retail isn’t dying. After all, Amazon, the world’s largest company, with a significant web services business, 47 Emmy nominations, and exponential growth, is at its core, a retailer. When people frown upon the industry, more often than not they are thinking of department stores, which have become a “dirty word” in retail.

New York City offices are on the comeback trail

Jonathan Mechanic, chairman of the Fried Frank law firm’s powerful real-estate practice, is thrilled that his division completed major deals over the work-from-home summer that included the $1.8 billion financing of Brookfield’s One Manhattan West and the $350 sale-leaseback of 522 Fifth Ave.