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  • Self-Guided Tours: The New Norm Post COVID-19

    Arcade

    As coronavirus spread through the US cities affecting millions of households and forcing almost a country-wide shutdown, it coincided with the start of an apartment leasing season. This is the time of the year almost half of all renters in the US start switching apartments. If you were like me looking to move, you did your research months ahead and picked out the buildings to tour, only to find yourself in a situation where those plans had to be put on hold for the foreseeable future.

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  • Social Distancing and the Real Estate Industry Presented by Cherre

    CREtech

    Currently, there is much uncertainty, speculation, and conversation about the impact of the pandemic on the real estate industry. In this time of uncertainty, there’s one thing you can count on – data. Join L.D. Salmanson and Thomas Walle, both CEOs and Co-Founders of data-driven companies, for a conversation based on data about our current situation. Thomas and L.D. will discuss Unacast’s Social Distancing Scorecard, Cherre’s analytical models, and their projections for COVID-19’s impact on the…

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  • No-Touch Payments Skyrocket Because No One Wants to Handle Cash

    Bloomberg

    As more people worry about catching coronavirus from touching cash and credit-card terminals, a onetime niche technology is roaring into the mainstream.

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  • Multifamily Buildings Adopt Contactless Customer Service Amid the Coronavirus

    GlobeSt

    The coronavirus has changed all aspects of everyday life and condo and co-op owners have not been immune. Staff aren’t showing up for their shifts, package deliveries aren’t being made—one landlord commented that his building cannot even receive mail, a big issue for tenants.

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  • VIDEO: Fly on the Wall Ep. 1 – Brett White, Executive Chairman and CEO, Cushman and Wakefield

    Fifth Wall

    In the first episode of Fly on the Wall, listen-in on a Zoom conference call between Brendan Wallace, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Fifth Wall and Brett White, Executive Chairman & CEO, Cushman & Wakefield, for a candid discussion about COVID-19 and its effects on the imperative of technology adoption in the global real estate industry.

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  • India’s NoBroker raises an additional $30M from General Atlantic

    TechCrunch

    NoBroker,  a Bangalore-based startup that helps those looking to rent or buy an apartment connect directly with property owners, has extended its previous financing round to add $30 million to it.

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  • Cherre and Spatial.ai Announce Partnership to Integrate Geosocial Data Into Real Estate Data Platform

    Benzinga

    Cherre, the NYC-based real estate data and analytics platform, today announced a new partnership with Spatial.ai, creators of the world’s first human-driven location dataset built by categorizing billions of conversations from social networks into actionable consumer segments. In this new partnership, Cherre will add Spatial’s Geosocial data into their platform, providing mutual customers with turnkey access to 72 “social segments” to incorporate into real estate decision making….

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  • Seeking New Businesses and Better Lives, Investors on the Coasts Move Inland

    The New York Times

    Seeking New Businesses and Better Lives, Investors on the Coasts Move Inland. A wave of venture capitalists is heading to quieter, less-expensive locales, where they are helping fund start-ups.

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  • Opendoor Is Reportedly Laying Off 35% Of Its Staff

    Inman

    Approximately 600 employees being laid off will reportedly get 16 weeks of benefits coverage and eight weeks of severance pay, 3 sources said.

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  • View, the dynamic glass company that raised $1.1 billion from SoftBank in 2018, is laying people off

    TechCrunch

    View, a 13-year-old, Milpitas, Calif.-based company that makes dynamic glass designed to reduce heat and glare as well as lessen eyestrain, has cut an unknown number of employees, including at a plant in Olive Branch, Mississippi.

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