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How Do Real-Estate Agents Show Homes During Coronavirus? ‘With Extreme Caution.’

Wall Street Journal
6/5/2020

One couple was from the Northeast, empty-nesters. They were visiting Miami and wanted to look at homes. They were very unfamiliar with Miami and really didn’t know the neighborhoods at all. Obviously, in the middle of a pandemic it’s an impossible situation. Miami-Dade County has all kinds of ordinances. So I said, “Why don’t you meet me at this area in North Grove. I can’t really get you into any homes, but you’ll be in your car and I’ll be in my car and I’ll drive you through Coconut Grove and…

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My New Normal: Gensler Co-CEO Andy Cohen

Bisnow
6/5/2020

Andy Cohen co-leads Gensler, a global giant in the architecture world with 6,000 employees across 18 countries and 24 practice areas, with Diane Hoskins. Though design work has been impacted, the coronavirus pandemic has been a busy time for him: Beyond checking in with 67,000 clients in 10 weeks, his team has been crafting open-source guides to get back to the office safely, and Cohen has been active on the webinar circuit.

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Popularity Of Newer Offices With Wellness Perks Leaps Post-Pandemic

Bisnow
6/5/2020

From January until mid-May, four- and five-star office space represented 49% of gross leasing activity, representing a 3% jump compared to previous years. Lower-quality buildings attracted an even smaller share of new deals than in previous years, according to new data from CoStar Group.

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Ryan Williams, a 32-year-old black CEO, says America has been ‘hallucinating’ about racism and inequality. Until now.

CNN
6/5/2020

The United States is experiencing a “reckoning” over race, justice and inequality that has been decades in the making, fintech CEO Ryan Williams told CNN Business. “We’ve been hallucinating as a country for a long time,” said Williams, the 32-year-old African American founder of Cadre, a startup disrupting the real estate industry with the support of elite investors including George Soros, Mark Cuban and Peter Thiel….

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CrowdStreet, Portland real estate funding startup, lays off a fifth of its staff

Oregon Live
6/5/2020

CrowdStreet, a Portland company that funds commercial real estate developments through its website, laid off 24 of its 110 employees Monday. The coronavirus outbreak has thrown the commercial real estate sector into tumult, with most office workers doing their jobs remotely and the broader economy heading sharply downward.

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The Office Is Far Away. Can Its Culture Survive?

Wall Street Journal
6/5/2020

An online plank-holding contest. Walk-and-talk meetings held outdoors via Zoom. A companywide game show based on Netflix’s “Love Is Blind,” capped with a virtual dance party. American companies are experimenting with new ways to replicate the camaraderie that once defined day-to-day life inside an office as a pandemic-induced period of remote work approaches three months—with no clearly-defined end in sight.

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Miguel McKelvey out at WeWork

The Real Deal
6/5/2020

Miguel McKelvey is leaving WeWork, the embattled office-sharing company he helped found in 2010. McKelvey was one of the few remaining executives at WeWork following its failed attempt to go public and bailout by… …

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Visualizing Your Revenue At Risk With Power BI

Openbox
6/5/2020

The rapidly changing nature of the situation calls for more than simply running a report from an existing system or passing around spreadsheets that may already be out of date before they are received. Thanks to our wealth of experience with business intelligence, data and integration, we’ve been able to answer the call in record time by combining the rapidly deployed Power BI suite with existing tools and systems to turn raw data into actionable information.

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Swivel pivots its flexible workspace software for commercial leases

AUSTININNO
6/4/2020

Swivel has released a new SaaS-based leasing application to help commercial real estate leasing teams keep food on the table and the lights on at the office — and maybe at home. The Austin company released AgileView recently, which Swivel says helps office space landlords and leasing teams “transform traditional leasing processes to digital to ensure leasing velocity during the pandemic.”

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Betterview Raises $7.5M in Funding

Finsmes
6/4/2020

Betterview, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a software platform for P&C insurance carriers, raised $7.5m in funding. The round, which brought total capital raised to date to $17m, was led by ManchesterStory with participation from Guidewire Software, Nationwide, EMC Insurance Companies, MaidenRe, Compound, Winklevoss Capital, and Chestnut Street Ventures.

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