Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
GlobeSt
A new real estate tech company is providing off-market listings to renters. Southern California-based PocketList is an apartment rental platform that provides rental listings before they are widely marketed, giving the renters a leg up on snagging the best housing. But, it isn’t only renters that are benefitting. Landlords will see vacancies fill faster, creating more stable occupancy and cash flow.
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GlobeSt
A record $300 billion in funds designated to buy distressed commercial real estate assets remains on the sidelines despite plunging commercial real estate values tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to New York-based Enertiv.
The New York Times
Companies that have changed the ways they work have had more success — and in some cases, discovered new routines that they want to continue when they return to offices. These companies have a few things in common: They have fewer meetings that are long or large or back-to-back. They designate meeting-free time for focused work; offer flexible work hours; and find ways for colleagues to socialize when they’re not seeing one another in person. …
Property Week
Going forward, Sharon White, the relatively new CEO, expects John Lewis department stores to generate 60% of business from online compared to the pre-coronavirus level of 40%. Retail floor area will shrink but they want to ‘put excess space to good social use’. Warning that retail margins are too thin, the business is looking at expanding its financial services offering and venturing into new mixed-use affordable housing and horticulture. Shops will remain crucial to the brand but in support of …
The Guardian
The Paris mayor, Anne Hidalgo, has made phasing out vehicles and creating a “15-minute city” a key pillar of her offering at the launch of her re-election campaign. The Socialist politician wants to encourage more self-sufficient communities within each arrondissement of the French capital, with grocery shops, parks, cafes, sports facilities, health centres, schools and even workplaces just a walk or bike ride away.
Fundraising Radio
Daniel Fetner, principal at Corigin Ventures in this episode explains what does it mean to have a founder-market fit, who can claim that they are the perfect founder for a company and what to do if you realise that you don’t have a founder-market fit. We also talk about how founders can find the lead investor and what the term “lead investor” mean?
Enertiv
Enertiv 360 Launch: We Transform Building Data into Asset Value. Enertiv creates asset value for commercial real estate portfolios by improving productivity and directly decreasing operating and capital expenses related to maintenance & repairs, utilities, tenant submetering and the indoor environment. We have a unique approach – the Enertiv App is a software-only solution that can be deployed immediately portfolio-wide to digitize your building data and workflows. From there, we provide a w…
The New York Times
The Neo is a four-foot-tall, 1,000-pound robot floor scrubber. The high-tech machine can cruise large commercial buildings on its own, with no human supervision required. Since its introduction in 2016, Neo’s sales have roughly doubled each year, said Faizan Sheikh, the chief executive and a co-founder of Avidbots, the Canadian start-up that created the robot. This year, however, demand has shot up 100 percent just since the pandemic-induced shutdown in March. Suddenly, the need for thorough, re…
The New York Times
In recent years, companies have been prowling the web for public photos associated with people’s names that they can use to build enormous databases of faces and improve their facial recognition systems, adding to a growing sense that personal privacy is being lost, bit by digital bit….
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