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  • If It’s Good Enough For Our Clients’: Brokerages Start Returning To The Office

    Bisnow

    These firms are doing so under the knowledge that their clients, who are relying on their advice on how to allow their own employees back into offices across the globe, will be watching how it works out for them. “There are a lot of things we need to do well to make it work,” NKF Executive Vice President Roy Abernathy said. “Clients are looking to us to do it well. And clients are looking to us to provide those best practices and demonstrate them.”

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  • Coronavirus Has Some Buyers Purchasing Homes Without Setting Foot Inside Them

    Wall Street Journal

    In March, Lester and Janet Knispel paid $1.55 million for a white-columned house on the second fairway at Isleworth Golf & Country Club in Windermere, Fla. Now their televisions are mounted on the walls and their Porsche is parked in the garage.

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  • Don’t Stand So Close to Me: AI Cameras Police Social Distancing at Work

    Wall Street Journal

    Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 Inc. RPD 2.78% last year installed tiny cameras around its Austin, Texas, office to track how its staff used the space. Now it’s using those same cameras to keep workers apart.

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  • SoftBank’s Big Bets Are Hit Hard by Coronavirus

    Wall Street Journal

    The world’s biggest tech fund was risky from the start, quickly pouring about $80 billion into cash-burning startups at high prices. A less-noticed part of SoftBank 9984 0.97% Group Corp.’s strategy has deepened the fund’s losses and will likely weigh on any recovery….

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  • How Real-Estate Agents Close Deals During Coronavirus

    Wall Street Journal

    I had a couple of deals in the works before this whole thing hit, and what I’m doing now is following through and making sure everything goes through to closing. It hasn’t been easy.

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  • The Biggest Threat (And Opportunity) Facing The Commercial Real Estate Industry…

    Michael Beckerman

    Big tech! One of the most extraordinary outcomes we are witnessing (or shall I say being bombarded with) on a daily basis is how “work” as we know it is now being challenged during the pandemic. Not a day goes by where I am not inundated with content from companies doing surveys, studies, making suggestions and plans on how we will all get back to work and what the future holds for the real estate industry. And I have no doubt that you are facing the same content onslaught. As I have writt…

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  • New coronavirus app aims to keep office workers safe

    FOX Business

    RXR Realty Chairman and CEO Scott Rechler discusses changing the workspace amid the coronavirus and how his company is combining technology with new processes to increase safety.

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  • Coronavirus Finishes the Retail Reckoning That Amazon Started

    Wall Street Journal

    Even as malls and stores begin to reopen, the Covid-19 pandemic has taken a toll on an industry already battered by the shift to online shopping. More than two million retail jobs disappeared in April as many stores closed. The damage will be clear Friday when the U.S. government reports what is expected to be one of the worst months for retailers since World War II….

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  • UpKeep raises $36 million Series B to help facilities and maintenance teams go mobile

    TechCrunch

    UpKeep, a mobile-first platform for maintenance and operations collaboration, has today announced the close of a $36 million Series B financing round. The round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Emergence Capital, Battery Ventures, Y Combinator, Mucker Capital and Fundersclub.

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  • The Impact Of COVID-19 On NYC Office Buildings

    Prescriptive Data

    The battle against COVID-19 has put property owners and managers to the test. Tasked with continuing operations for essential employees while implementing government-mandated social distancing policies, many in the world of commercial real estate are left wondering how these unprecedented times will impact their customers and future business operations.

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