CREtech Briefs May 31, 2022 - Rob Speyer on the long arc of megadevelopment, Climate Inaction at $178 Trillion over 50 Years +More
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NEWS | TheRealDeal
In most real estate rooms, Tishman Speyer is the 800-pound-gorilla. But Rob Speyer wants it to be the most nimble gorilla, one that can constantly reposition its 90 million-square-foot portfolio in response to the trends driving the world today.?
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NEWS | Bisnow
WeWork is the lead investor behind a new $30M funding round for a flexible workspace tech startup it began partnering with earlier this year. Upflex also received funding from Newmark, Cushman & Wakefield and others as part of the Series A round, it announced Wednesday.
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NEWS | TechCrunch
Roofstock co-founder and chairman Gregor Watson and real estate investor Rob Bloemker started the venture firm in 2021, and had their first close last year. The pair say the fund was “oversubscribed.” For the unacquainted, Roofstock is an online marketplace for investing in leased single-family
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NEWS | PlaceTech
How do you start figuring out what tech your offices, shops or warehouses need when there are thousands of startups in the industry? PlaceTech speaks to JLL Spark’s Raj Singh for his advice on getting it right. Although there are significant benefits to adopting tech
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NEWS | EGi
The trick to getting an industry like real estate to address climate change is to make it easy. So said NREP and sustainable urbanism VC 2150 founder Mikkel Bülow-Lehnsby at CREtech Climate in Copenhagen this week. Speaking to a room of key players from across
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NEWS | ESG Today
A new research report released today by Deloitte highlights the stark economic differences between taking a coordinated global approach to climate action and failure to act, with inaction on climate change poised to lead to as much as $178 trillion in GDP destruction over the
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NEWS | Cision
Airtower Networks (“Airtower”), a leading developer, owner, and operator of wireless digital infrastructure and DIF Capital Partners (“DIF”) are pleased to announce that they have reached agreement for DIF to be Airtower’s growth capital partner and support the management team in achieving its strategic vision
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NEWS | PlaceTech
Make it easy?| Decarbonising the built environment is clearly not easy, and can overwhelm those that confront the challenge for the first time. We need to make it seem easy to encourage change. Look for ready-to-go technology. One thing we don’t have is time on
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NEWS | Axios
It’s no secret that Americans’ newfound?remote work?lifestyles drove demand for larger homes with more comfortable workspaces. What's new:?That demand may be responsible for more than half of the surge in real estate prices during the pandemic, according to a?working paper?published by the National Bureau of
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NEWS | Crunchbase
Sequoia Capital?gathered its founders on?Zoom?to?address this “crucible moment.”?In its presentation, the firm said “the cost of capital has fundamentally increased.” It also noted that crossover funds active in funding private companies are significantly impacted and “are tending to wounds in their public portfolios, which have
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