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  • How We Foster a Culture of Innovation at LightBox with Regional Locations and Work from Home Environments

    LightBox RE

    To some, the idea of a company without a headquarters might seem unconventional. Generally speaking, a headquarters location is designated for those companies operating at scale so that all or most of executive management and key staff are clustered for collaboration in one, central location. A headquarters location may have the appearance of being more prestigious and can certainly help attract more top talent compared to working from the more remote, regional office locations. Often, this scen…

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  • Trepp Report Shows CMBS Performs Best in Tech Cities

    The Real Deal

    That’s according to a recent report from the commercial mortgage-backed securities data provider Trepp, which tallied the top secondary metro areas using several key industry metrics.

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  • KPMG 2020 CEO Outlook: COVID-19 Special Edition

    KPMG

    The KPMG 2020 CEO Outlook COVID-19 Special Edition finds the world’s chief executives using this unparalleled moment in history to lead with increased purpose and impact, both societal and economic. They are protecting their people, building trusted relationships with customers and communities, and defining a new future of growth and success for their organizations.

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  • HqO launches building population features

    PlaceTech.

    HqO, the end-to-end operating system for commercial office buildings, announced that it has extended the capabilities of its tenant experience technology to help commercial real estate owners facilitate a safe return to work amidst the global pandemic through two new features within its app.

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  • Cities Tap AI to Regulate Short-Term Rentals as Travel Picks Up

    Wall Street Journal

    Cities and towns are tapping artificial intelligence and other technologies to keep tabs on short-term home-rental activity. As the effects of the coronavirus pandemic tear through budgets, some localities hope the tools can identify tax-revenue opportunities.

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  • Bright Spaces Making Big Splash with Romanian Project

    Commercial Real Estate Biz

    PropTech Romanian startup Bright Spaces has recently signed an agreement with Skanska Romania and will implement its interactive 3D showcasing platform for Equilibrium, a project owned by the developer in Bucharest, Romania. The platform will go live in October 2020. Bright Spaces caught the eye of Skanska Romania since its participation in the PropTech Hackathon organized by Skanska with the support of Proptech Romania, in November 2019. During that competition, Bright Spaces managed to win the…

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  • Coronavirus-Resistant Offices May Have An Advantage In The Market

    Bisnow

    Jonathon Yormak, founder and managing principal of East End Capital, was in the middle of renovating a more than 100-year-old, 120K SF office building in New York when the coronavirus hit. He’d already decided to completely overhaul the air and ventilation system in the building.

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  • Amazon Alexa’s next home could be your apartment complex

    CNET

    On Thursday, the online retailer revealed its new Alexa for Residential program, which will make it easier for landlords and property managers to add dozens of Amazon’s voice assistant and Alexa-powered smart home devices into their rental units….

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  • Storelift launches autonomous convenience stores using AI and computer vision

    Venture Beat

    As physical retail struggles amid the global pandemic, storeowners are rapidly trying to adapt to new realities that also include growing competition from Amazon. But a French startup called Storelift believes it can create a new convenience store concept that leans on many of the same AI and computer vision tools used in Amazon Go stores to reinvent the shopping and checkout experience.

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  • Simon Property Group Partners with ShopShops

    The Real Deal

    Simon Property Group is going virtual. The nation’s largest mall operator is partnering with ShopShops, a livestream shopping app, according to the app’s founder and CEO, Liyia Wu.

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