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  • No Matter the Property Type, It Pays to Invest in Energy Efficiency

    COMMERCIAL PROPERTY EXECUTIVE

    When the Institute for Market Transformation released a series of case studies examining the financial outlay and impact of energy efficient retrofits on a range of building types across the United States, it caught my attention. As the chief operating officer of a real estate company that owns an extremely diverse portfolio, I’m always interested in understanding which property types benefit the most from energy efficiency upgrades….

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  • Paradox Partners Launches Co-Work Operations

    CONNECT TEXAS

    Paradox Partners LLC is launching a co-work concept to provide entrepreneurs with affordable and flexible workspace. The company is basing its operations in San Antonio, and will open the first Paradox co-working space at 8522 Broadway, a two-story, 39,333-square-foot building. Colorado investor Alex Gerber acquired the mixed-use building out of foreclosure in 2017. Gerber, who is also launching the Paradox workspace, said he wanted to provide co-working space in other than urban areas, and g…

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  • ATYPICAL and Sea Monster Team Up to Bring Augmented Reality & 2D Animation to The Real Estate Industry

    ATYPICAL

    NEW YORK, July 25, 2019 – ATYPICAL, a leader in digital real estate marketing services has announced that they have partnered with animation and gaming specialists and developers, Sea Monster.  The union will combine ATYPICAL’s understanding and experience in the real estate industry with Sea Monster’s specialized skills in animation, gaming and immersive technologies, to create campaigns and assets that tell your brand’s story in a unique and powerful way….

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  • Mary Meeker’s Bond Capital Leads $100M Round In Insurance Startup Hippo, Crowning It A Unicorn

    CRUNCHBASE NEWS

    This morning, another startup sprouted a horn by joining the unicorn club. Hippo, a company that works in the home insurance space, raised a $100 million round this morning, valuing it at $1 billion according to Fortune. That another private tech company is now a unicorn is hardly news in 2019; so many companies have met that valuation mark that it’s nearly mundane. That another insurance startup is now a unicorn is slightly notable, but there are a number of highly-valued companies in the sp…

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  • Exclusive: Comcast-Championed Home Insurer Hippo Hits $1 Billion ‘Unicorn’ Valuation

    FORTUNE

    Hippo, a tech startup focused on the insurance market, has raised $100 million in new venture capital at a $1 billion valuation, the threshold for so-called unicorn status, Fortune has learned. Hippo’s latest cash injection was spearheaded by Bond Capital, an investment firm that well-known investor Mary Meeker recently spun out of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a Silicon Valley venture capital stalwart. (Read Fortune’s recent feature about Kleiner’s downfall.) This is Bond’s second-ev…

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  • Dexus partners with Taronga Ventures to launch prop-tech program

    FINANCIAL REVIEW

    Real estate group Dexus is partnering with Taronga Ventures to launch a prop-tech incubator program that will help tech businesses scale up across Australia and Asia. Dexus will be the founding real estate corporate partner for Taronga Ventures’ RealTechX Growth Program and joins other investors including Microsoft, Google and IBM, UNSW and CSIRO.

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  • Summer Sale: Get Your Discounted Conference Pass to CREtech New York

    CREtech

    Join us for CREtech’s biggest east coast two-day conference on October 16-17, 2019. Get an all-access conference pass with our summer savings sale happening now. CREtech will assemble the most sought-after speakers, the leading startups, investors from around the world, motivated developers/owners and brokers to discuss all things real estate tech innovation. Our sold-out events are a must-attend for real estate professionals to network, discover and transform your business.

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  • CREtech Releases Event Prospectus for 2019 New York Conference

    CREtech

    Largest event platform in the commercial real estate tech sector releases 2019 sponsorship offerings New York, NY (July 25, 2018) — CREtech (cretech.com), the leading event, content and connectivity platform for the commercial real estate technology industry, officially releases its 2019 CREtech New York Event Prospectus. Attracting hundreds of sponsors and exhibitors each year from emerging startups to Fortune 500 companies, CREtech events are the number one destination for technology products…

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  • Amazon Plans Ohio Expansion with Two Robotics Fulfillment Centers

    GLOBEST

    AKRON, OH—E-commerce giant Amazon reports it plans to open two new robotics fulfillment centers in Ohio that will create more than 2,500 full-time jobs once operational and will total a combined 1.4 million square feet. The two new fulfillment centers will be developed in Akron and Rossford and will each total approximately 700,000 square feet. The projects are being developed in partnership with Seefried Industrial Properties, Duke Realty, the Development Finance Authority of Summit County, …

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  • What to Think About WeWork’s Valuation?

    NATIONAL REAL ESTATE INVESTOR

    Co-working provider WeWork keeps making the news lately, first with the announcement of its planned IPO, then with the breakdown of how it plans to raise investor confidence in said IPO (through raising between $3 billion and $4 billion in debt), and now with the revelation that co-founder Adam Neumann has sold off approximately $700 million in equity in the company….

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