Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
PropertyQuants
PropertyQuants is offering a Masters’ level course in applying data science and machine learning to real estate. Instructors are PhD Data Scientists with decades of experience in quantitative investing. A version of this course was taught at a leading business school in Q1 2020.This live online course features in-depth hands-on classes. The course runs for up to 11 weeks, depending on the modules taken.
Wall Street Journal
California’s housing crisis has turned housing development into an obsession for tech giants such as Google and Facebook. Now, more venture-backed startups are getting into the game. The latest is Juno Residential Inc., a San Francisco-based company co-founded by Apple and Tesla veterans and backed by Khosla Ventures. The firm, which was founded quietly last year and is to be launched officially on Tuesday, hopes to make the building of apartments more efficient by using mass-production techniqu…
Wall Street Journal
Technology startups have been laying off tens of thousands of workers to cope with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, potentially blunting a key innovation pipeline for the enterprise information-technology market, according to industry analysts. “Startups are a great source of innovation in the IT industry, but are now especially cash constrained,” said Max Azaham, a senior research director at research and consulting firm Gartner Inc….
EU-Startups
Today Unlatch, a French pioneer in digital real estate sales, has announced raising €5.2 million in a round led by AXA Venture Partners. The funds will be used to add new services and features and accelerate the internationalization of the business, particularly in Spain and the United Kingdom. Unlatch (2018) is a B2B software solution for residential real estate professionals (developers, marketers, landlords, etc.) which streamlines and simplifies the entire sales process while enriching the r…
Bisnow
As part of the agreement, the Colony-led investor group said it will invest $1.2B in Vantage’s data center portfolio, which includes 12 centers totaling more than 1.4M SF in Santa Clara, California; Quincy, Washington; and Montreal and Quebec City, Canada. Vantage will continue to manage and operate these assets, a statement said.
CREtech
CREtech (cretech.com) and FUTURE PropTech, the largest intelligence platforms devoted to Reimagining Real Estate, announced today that Daniel Ramirez, Director of Innovation at Skanska USA Commercial Development, will take the stage for the Reimagining Real Estate Virtual Global Summit, the largest global real estate tech virtual conference ever assembled….
Bloomberg
The multiple crises impacting the U.S. economy — the botched response to the coronavirus and the resulting economic fallout, and lack of spending power — have delivered a new gut punch to brick-and-mortar retail, a sector that was already reeling. More than half of all U.S. department stores in malls will be gone by 2021, one real estate research firm predicts, and surviving retailers may not be far behind; once-mighty brands such as Cheesecake Factory and the Gap are skipping rent payments, Sta…
Tampa Bay Times
Passed on June 30 and effective on July 1, 2021, the Florida Legislature enacted a new law that prohibits state-financed construction of certain structures in coastal areas after a specified date, without first taking certain steps regarding a sea-level impact projection study.
Medium
New York City is facing an economic crisis of historic proportions, triggered in part by the virus, but made worse by decades of zoning that often serves to separate residential from commercial and manufacturing districts, rather than blend them seamlessly. These zoning choices made sense at the time (who wants to live next to an oil refinery, or reside in a building whose lobby is overrun at rush hour?), but they locked New Yorkers into a mass-movement commuting model that relies too heavily on…
GlobeSt
SAN FRANCISCO—After COVID finally weaves its way through the country, the workplace will take on monumental changes. But as many offices go remote, where people work will likely change as well.
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