Global Venture Funding Through The Pandemic, Late-Stage Stays Strong

To understand the impact of the pandemic on global venture funding, we took a look at comparative trends for the first four months of each year from 2016 through to 2020. The impact to technology companies was immediate, with transportation (Uber, Lyft), logistics (KeepTruckin), travel (Airbnb, OYO), real estate (Compass, Opendoor), marketing (Branch), retail (Rent the Runway, The RealReal), finance (Monzo, Metromile), media (Politico, Quartz, TheSkimm), and recruiting (Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter) …

Big Tech vs. Big Office

There has been a flurry of news over the past few weeks about major tech companies embracing work from home (WFH) policies indefinitely. There’s no doubt that this will have a dramatic effect on the office market and investors who hold assets in this sector….

Office Towers Are Still Going Up, but Who Will Fill Them?

Equiem launches Smart office dashboard suite

The global tenant engagement solutions provider for commercial real estate is helping companies and employees get back to work safely through a series of dashboards that report on real-time lobby traffic, building occupancy, air quality and other key measures delivered by sensors throughout a building.

Unwinding The WeWork Portfolio In UK Regions: The Landlords Are Talking

WeWork’s Manchester and Birmingham landlords are considering whether to operate flexible workspace themselves or under management agreements, or to find new occupiers for WeWork hubs, as the global coworking giant reconsiders its property portfolio. The discussions, reported to be managed on behalf of WeWork by Knight Frank and JLL, are expected to conclude early next month. They will decide the future of 232K SF in Birmingham and 307K SF in Manchester.

In Case You Missed It, Read Highlights from CREtech Talks: Fully Automated Multifamily

The multifamily sector has been on a rapid path of growth and expansion over the past several years. However, with the current pandemic disrupting occupancy, it’s no longer business as usual.  A true black swan event in modern economic history, today’s leaders in multifamily real estate are rethinking and transforming their approach and strategies in today’s economic environment. In a recent CREtech Talks, Fully Automated Multifamily, five of the most innovative leaders in multifamily real es…

Co-Working Firms Respond to Industry Threat With Joint Safety Effort

More than 20 of the world’s largest co-working firms, suffering a threat to their business from the pandemic, have agreed to coordinate in a way that would have been unheard of before the crisis. The firms, which include Industrious and Convene in the U.S., JustCo of Singapore, and IWG PLC of the U.K., have formed a new umbrella organization known as the Workplace Operator Readiness Council.

Rural and hyper-connected: here is the ecovillage of the future

If we look back in time it’s certainly nothing new: from Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City at the end of the nineteenth century, Frank Lloyd Wright Wright’s Living City in the 1960s, to Stefano Boeri’s present forest cities in China or his Smart Forest City in Mexico. The return to nature and low-density urban forms are comforting projections into the future, sometimes leading to utopia….

New CDC Guidelines Would Remake Office Space

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued recommendations for the reopening of office space that cover a wide of array of steps it says will slow the spread of the coronavirus. If implemented, the recommendations would markedly change the look and feel of office space.

Barclays to Return About 700 Staff Globally to Offices

Barclays Plc will begin returning about 700 staff to offices in the U.K., U.S. and India starting in July, as it joins global rivals in easing the home-working policies introduced during the coronavirus pandemic.