CREtech Briefs March 14, 2022 - Coworking Giant IWG Investing $354M, Four big landlords get paid to model green retrofits + More
Today's Headlines
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NEWS | Bisnow
Coworking?specialist IWG is merging its digital assets with flexible workspace platform?The Instant Group,?which has a presence in 18 countries. IWG's digital assets include EasyOffices.com, Meetingo.com, Rovva and Worka, and the merged entity will offer such services as membership plans, virtual offices, office booking and consulting,?according
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NEWS | Wall Street Journal
Where to find new jobs in tech? Increasingly, the answer is far outside Silicon Valley. Smaller cities like Virginia Beach, Va., Madison, Wis., and Durham, N.C., have marked strong growth in new tech jobs while cities traditionally considered tech strongholds have?seen their growth rates slip,
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NEWS | First American
Venture and tech executive takes on new position focused on enhancing First American’s leadership in driving real estate innovation
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NEWS | CREtech
Carlos Rousseau, Co-founder and CEO of Orange Investments, discusses the challenges the real estate industry faces in Latin America, and worldwide, and how technology can achieve solutions across various verticals when implemented strategically.
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NEWS | PR Newswire
Roofstock, the leading end-to-end online platform for single-family rental (SFR) investing, today announced it closed a?$240 million?Series E equity financing round, bringing the company's valuation to?$1.94 billion. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the financing with participation from existing and new investors including Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed
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NEWS | The Real Deal
Decarbonization is no longer just a?buzzword. In the past few years, New York has tightened the screws on real estate, a sector that belches nearly 70 percent of New York City’s climate-warming emissions and one-third of the state’s. A city law demands that most
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NEWS | CREtech
March 22 and 23rd In-Person Conference Will Be CREtech’s Sole West Coast Conference In 2022 New York, NY (December 13, 2021) — CREtech, the largest international community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, has announced that President and CEO of
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NEWS | The Real Deal
It’s heady times in the single-family rental market. Roofstock, an online marketplace for investors in the asset class, raised $240 million from SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 and others in a Series E round — more than doubling its equity funding — at a valuation just
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NEWS | GlobeSt
Fundrise, a crowdfunding real estate investment platform that sells shares for as low as $10, announced this week it will spend $130 million to acquire properties for a national expansion of Saltbox, the co-warehousing startup. Saltbox, which provides logistics space primarily to e-commerce entrepreneurs in
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NEWS | GlobeSt
Investors love a hot sector, and that’s one good way to describe proptech based on the amount of cash being poured on by venture capital firms.
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