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BISNOW
A co-living company with dozens of locations in Europe and three in the United States plans to open in “every major U.S. city” within the next two years, and has hired a retail veteran to help do it.
FORBES
Mark Zilbert is Executive Vice President at Brown Harris Stevens Miami, focused on luxury real estate sales and deploying technology. Over the past decade or so, we’ve witnessed massive shifts in how consumers purchase products and services. Whether it has been in travel, consumer goods or legal services, technology has enabled the consumer to work more in a self-service mode, as well as save on costs, fees and expenses. But, will we ever see the day when real estate brokers are no longer rel…
BISNOW
As commercial real estate services firms continue to build their digital product offerings to compete in the increasingly tech-dependent industry, JLL has launched a new, cloud-based property management platform for its Product and Development Services division, the company announced on Monday.
BUSINESS WIRE
The hottest company in mobile access control drives unprecedented mobile adoption with the release of its sleek Mullion Smart Reader, designed to enable secure mobile access for any office. …
THE REAL DEAL
Amazon putting its money behind pre-fabricated homes. The tech giant’s Alexa Fund was among the investors in Plant Prefab’s Series A funding round. The company, which manufactures custom single- and multifamily homes, raised $6.7 million, according to a statement.
CRAIN’S NEW YORK
At the beginning of September, WeWork, the $20 billion provider of flexible workspace, was close to signing a lease at the city’s tallest office tower. The deal—to take about 200,000 square feet at 1 World Trade Center—would have made the eight-year-old company the city’s largest office tenant, a milestone it wound up hitting recently through a separate deal. The company now rents 5.3 million square feet total.
CREtech
HqO Raises $6.6M in Funding to Scale its Tenant Experience Software for the Built Environment Top Commercial Real Estate Tech Investors Fund New Category Leader that Helps Landlords Provide Tech-enabled Experiences at their Properties Thursday, September 27, 2018 – HqO, a tenant experience (TeX) platform for commercial real estate, today announced it raised a $6.6M round of seed funding from Accomplice and a syndicate of strategic commercial real estate partners, including: JLL Sp…
WSJ
NEW DELHI— SoftBank Group Corp. 9984 -0.95% is doubling down on one of its biggest bets in India by leading a $1 billion investment in hotel-booking startup OYO Hotels. The company, based in Gurgaon, India, has received $800 million in a round led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund, which SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son is using to back cutting-edge technologies, OYO said Tuesday. U.S. venture-capital firms Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners also contributed to the round, and exist…
THE REAL DEAL
The co-founder and CEO of Breather has left the short-term space rental startup just months after it raised $45 million in a funding round, The Real Deal has learned. Julien Smith, who started the Montreal-based company in 2012 along with Caterina Rizzi, is no longer at the firm, the company confirmed Wednesday. He will stay on as chairman of the board.
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