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  • The CREtech Reimagining Real Estate Hackathon Challenge

    CREtech

    As of 9 AM this morning in New York, over 435 of you have registered from over 60 organizations and two dozen countries, and more are joining every hour. Over the next two weeks, we expect those numbers to more than double, as over 100 projects will be formed to tackle some of the most pressing problems in the world’s real estate industry. Welcome to the CREtech Reimagining Real Estate Challenge. Background The world is in the midst of a crisis unlike anything we have experienced in our li…

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  • Startups tied to Joshua Kushner received millions in COVID-19 relief funds

    NY Post

    A deep-pocketed venture-capital firm run by Jared Kushner’s brother watched some of its tech startups rake in millions of dollars in federal coronavirus relief loans — despite the fact that it urged them not to take the cash, The Post has learned.

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  • Strategic hires in brokerage usher in a new day at SquareFoot

    SquareFoot

    This year for many of us has brought ups and downs. Although we’ve spent the better part of it working from home, I am optimistic that the future is bright for the commercial real estate industry. People are coming back to the office at their own pace and with their own specific needs in mind.

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  • Yac gets backed by Slack to bring the intimacy of voice back when remote co-workers interact

    TechCrunch

    Yac, the digital voice messaging service that launched last year, has raised new money from the Slack Fund as it continues to gain ground among companies looking to give their employees new communication tools for remote working.

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  • Granite Properties Invests Over $10 Million to Maximize Safety and Wellness Portfolio-wide

    Granite

    Granite Properties, a commercial real estate investment, development and management company, has launched “Inspire Wellness,” a $10 million comprehensive program to enhance the health and safety of its office buildings and new development projects in response to the pandemic. As part of the “Inspire Wellness” initiative, Granite has retrofitted touchless fixtures, installed UV lighting and is integrating Needlepoint Bipolar Ionization (NPBI) technology to continuously purify the air across Grani…

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  • Now Available On Demand: Healthy Buildings in the “New Normal” presented by Boston Properties

    CREtech

    Commercial real estate executive focused on ESG strategy and implementation, climate change, renewable energy, healthy buildings and urban ecosystems.

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  • ‘The Big Short 2.0’: How Hedge Funds Profited Off the Pain of Malls

    The New York Times

    Catie McKee was nervous. It was last October, and the 31-year-old hedge fund analyst, who had been scrutinizing the mortgages on the nation’s malls, was convinced that some of those malls would default on their loans. She and her colleagues had even bet a substantial amount of money on that likelihood.

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  • Back-to-Office Plans Delayed

    Wall Street Journal

    This summer, executives at health-care-technology firm Epic Systems announced a plan: Most of the 9,500 employees at its 1,000-acre campus in Wisconsin would be expected back in the office in September. The company, like many others, says its employees do their best work when they can collaborate in the same space. But blowback to the mandate was swift. Employees expressed fears about safety and spreading the new coronavirus. Local health officials questioned the move. So Epic joined legions of …

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  • HomeLight Acquires Disclosures.io; Will Launch Listing Management Services

    Crunchbase

    Homebuying and selling platform HomeLight acquired listings manager Disclosures.io to launch a new offering called HomeLight Listing Management. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. San Francisco-based Disclosures.io raised about $120,000 since its inception in 2017, according to Crunchbase data. This is HomeLight’s second acquisition, with the company, also based in San Francisco, acquiring mortgage origination and underwriting company Eave, in July 2019….

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  • Telemedicine Startup Eden Health Raises $25 Million To Expand Commercial Real Estate Partnerships

    Forbes

    Eden Health, a telemedicine company founded in 2015, raised $25 million in Series B financing, in part to expand its partnerships with commercial real estate firms through virtual and in-person health consultations. The funding round—which was led by Flare Capital Partners, with participation from Greycroft, Aspect Ventures, and other investors—places Eden Health’s valuation close to $100 million, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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