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  • Welcome Back to the Office. Your Every Move Is Being Watched.

    Wall Street Journal

    Many Americans heading back to the factory and the office as the coronavirus pandemic eases will soon begin to notice that their every move is being watched or recorded. In Midtown Manhattan, thermal cameras will measure body temperatures as employees file into a 32-story office tower at Rockefeller Center. The building’s owner, RXR Realty, said it is also developing a mobile app for tenants to monitor—and score—how closely their workers are complying with social distancing….

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  • Over 50% of mall department stores to close by 2021: Green Street

    CNBC

    First, the department store closes. Then, the apparel shops try to scoot out of deals. This is a one-two punch that could trigger a wave of malls shutting for good over the next 12 months.

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  • Home-Flipping Giant Opendoor Says It’s Time to Resume Buying

    Bloomberg

    Opendoor, which halted purchases in March and laid off more than a third of its staff as the coronavirus kept U.S. homebuyers indoors, will resume operations in Phoenix this week, with plans to reopen in more than 20 additional markets in the months ahead.

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  • Businesses Seek Sweeping Shield From Pandemic Liability Before They Reopen

    The New York Times

    Business lobbyists and executives are pushing the Trump administration and Congress to shield American companies from a wide range of potential lawsuits related to reopening the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic, opening a new legal and political fight over how the nation deals with the fallout from Covid-19.

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  • The Future Of DFW Office Is Touchless Entry And Germ-Free. What The Near Future Is Not: Spec Building

    Bisnow

    When the coronavirus crisis ends, building owners with newer assets armed with germ-fighting technologies are most equipped to succeed in the new normal, DFW developers Bill Cawley and Bill Brokaw say.

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  • Coliving Firm Common Launches Property Management Brand

    The Real Deal

    Common unveils property manager for workforce housing. Common, a company known for high-end communal living, is getting into the affordable housing business. The co-living firm revealed Monday that it has launched a brand geared towards workforce housing.

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  • Property Tech Startup Cadre Plans Fund to Buy in Economic Slump

    Bloomberg

    Real estate technology startup Cadre is planning to launch a new fund to seize on property-market opportunities that arise from the economic downturn in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

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  • Cherre and CompStak Announce Partnership to Integrate Verified Lease Comps and Transaction Analytics into Cherre’s Platform

    Business Insider

    Cherre, the NYC-based real estate data and analytics platform, today announced a new data partnership with CompStak, the nationwide provider of commercial real estate lease comps, sales comps, and property information. In this partnership, Cherre will integrate CompStak’s lease and sales comp data within the Cherre platform for mutual customers, providing visibility into granular property transaction information when evaluating properties for underwriting and investment decisions.

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  • WeWork To Cut More Staff Through May

    The Real Deal

    The beleaguered office-space provider on Thursday laid off employees in the sales, physical product and operations departments, Business Insider reported. The total number of layoffs was not immediately clear, but the latest round of pink slips follows hundreds of cuts in recent months.

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  • In Case You Missed It, Read The Highlights from CREtech Talks: European Proptech Venture Capital

    CREtech

    The international real estate tech economy is going through, what feels like, seismic tsunami.   In a recent CREtech Talks: European Proptech Venture Capital webinar, three of the most active and influential investors in real estate tech, including Gregory Dewerpe of A/O Proptech, Faisal Butt of Pi Labs, and Josh Mintz of Waveline Ventures, shared their views on the impact of the recent pandemic on the real estate tech industry, venture capital investment strategies, and offered suggestions to r…

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