Latest Trends and Insights in Real Estate Technology

Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.

Search

  • The Smart City of the Future Will Rise in Vegas

    CONNECT

    “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” goes the unofficial slogan of this gaming hub in the desert. To which the team behind Bleutech Park Properties might reply, “Not if we can help it.” The $7.5-billion Bleutech Park Las Vegas is slated to break ground in the Las Vegas Valley in December of this year, creating a mini-city that the project’s backers promise will “bring life to new technologies and alter the future of construction design. Smart buildings equipped with new, self-healing, ener…

    Read more

  • Shuttered co-living company inks deal to hand over lease agreements

    THE REAL DEAL

    Just a few days after abruptly closing its doors, co-living start-up Bedly has inked an agreement for another company to take over some of its sublease agreements. Brooklyn-based Outpost Club will take over some of Bedly’s lease agreements at its Manhattan and New Jersey properties, the companies announced on Thursday. Bedly founder Martin Greenberg indicated that similar second deal at its other properties will be announced soon. The value of the agreement was not made public.

    Read more

  • Lyft Operating Chief to Depart After Moving Last Year From Tesla

    BLOOMBERG

    Jon McNeill, who was hired last year to run Lyft Inc.’s operations, is leaving the company. The founders, who have struggled to retain an operating chief, said they won’t hire a replacement. Before joining Lyft, McNeill was a deputy to Elon Musk at Tesla Inc. He spent two and half years at the automaker, where he served as president of global sales and service….

    Read more

  • AI predicts Airbnb prices with 69% accuracy

    VENTUREBEAT

    One needn’t be an oracle to forecast Airbnb listings prices — AI models fed customer reviews and rental features will do the trick. That’s the conclusion drawn by a team of graduate students at Stanford, who investigate in a paper on Arxiv.org (“Airbnb Price Prediction Using Machine Learning and Sentiment Analysis“) systems leveraging machine learning and natural language processing to anticipate future Airbnb rates….

    Read more

  • 10 Amsterdam-based startups to look out for in 2019 and beyond

    EU STARTUPS

    Finding the right hotel has never been easier with Booking.com, and no one even remembers how we sent files before WeTransfer. What these two have in common is that they share Amsterdam as their headquarters. And for good reason – this bike-friendly city has also been friendly to the startup community, with a progressive environment, diverse workforce, innovative spirit, top-notch universities and an excellent startup business climate.

    Read more

  • WeWork’s Adam Neumann solicits offers for building he leases to his own $47B company

    THE REAL DEAL

    Adam Neumann (the WeWork landlord) is going to find out out how much a building mostly leased to Adam Neumann (the WeWork CEO) is worth. In an effort to avoid potential conflicts of interest ahead of parent firm the We Company’s debut on Wall Street, Neumann is putting a property that he owns as a personal investment in Greenwich Village up for sale on the open market, sources told The Real Deal.

    Read more

  • “Like TurboTax”: Nestio launches online leasing

    THE REAL DEAL

    The idea of renting an apartment with the click of a button just got a little more real. Residential listings startup Nestio — which provides real-time inventory management to big landlords — is rolling out an online leasing platform for renters, the company announced Wednesday. Dubbed “Funnel by Nestio,” the mobile-first tool automates the application for prospective renters by giving them a link that they can use to plug in their bank information — and instantly give landlords access to …

    Read more

  • Smart-Lock Startup Latch Opens Door to New Funding

    WSJ

    Before investing in smart-lock startup Latch, Andrew Sugrue spent an hour or so doing due diligence in the apartment building of Latch’s chief executive on the Lower East Side of New York. “We were lurking downstairs, we spoke with a bunch of other people [who lived there]. One person said, ‘I couldn’t live in a non-Latch building,’” said Mr. Sugrue, co-founder and partner at Avenir Growth Capital, which provided the bulk of Latch’s new $56 million round of funding. …

    Read more

  • WeWork to acquire workplace real estate platform SpaceIQ, expanding enterprise technology suite

    WEWORK

    A great workplace experience is more than just having a desk by the window or free lunch. It’s about being able to find a conference room for a last-minute meeting or having a mix of space to help you do your best work, like a table for collaboration and a quiet area for creative thinking.

    Read more

  • The Flexible Office Economy – Ep 6 w/ Jacob Bates, CEO CommonGrounds Workspace

    LINKEDIN

    This week: the distinction between “Workplace-as-a-Service” and Coworking, what it takes to serve the enterprise occupier, engineering flexibility into the built landscape, whether we’ve hit “Peak Office”, and more.

    Read more
<< < > >>

Join the Community

Subscribe to CREtech to get our monthly newsletter curated by our editors and special event discounts and announcements.


or if you're already a member

Login

Forgot password? Click here.

REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR EUROPE 2030: SHAPING THE FUTURE OF THE BUILT WORLD IN LONDON ON JULY 1, 2025

Register & Save
X