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Supply Chain Issues Highlight the Need for Commercial Real Estate Data
At the end of 2021, cargo ships began to pile up outside of the San Pedro Bay Port Complex off the coast of California waiting for a place to berth. It was a traffic jam like no other. In October, the queue swelled to more than 80 ships sitting in the harbor for as long…
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To Tackle the Warehouse Shortage, Industrial Developers Are Looking Up
Two decades ago, industrial was hardly considered a glamorous asset class. Industrial properties were simple and inexpensive box structures, and they filled a necessary real estate function—to house manufacturing facilities and machinery or store products.
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Another Proptech Boom Is Coming in 2022
Venture capital investment in 2021 can only be described with one word: epic.
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5 Trends That Will Shape Commercial Real Estate Technology in 2022
For the last decade, acceptance and adoption have been the prevailing trends around commercial real estate technology—and thanks to the pandemic, the industry has finally and completely embraced the digital world.
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Proptech Is Leading a New Era of Commercial Real Estate Transparency
For nearly two decades, the commercial real estate industry has heeded calls for increased transparency from a host of industry stakeholders—everyone from investors, developers and owners to occupiers and capital providers. These players are demanding access to timely and accurate data and standardized processes, which together contribute to better decision making, risk management, functional and…
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Commercial Real Estate AI is the Key to Hitting ESG Targets
We’ll probably never know if it was the global pandemic, the natural disasters that plagued the country or the widespread movement for racial justice—but commercial real estate stakeholders emerged from 2020 with a newfound commitment to environmental, social and governance factors, also known as ESG. In the last two years, CRE developers, owners and investors…
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How Real Estate Developers Are Making the Most of Big Data
Big data is the new buzzword in commercial real estate—and for a good reason. Think of it as a vast data mine with both traditional and non-traditional data sets that would be too big or cumbersome for an individual to process alone. Backed by AI, big data can manage and process these large and complex…
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Is Life Science a Secret Boon for Office Real Estate Development?
For most of the commercial real estate industry, the recovery has arrived faster than expected. As the pandemic has waned, hotel, retail and multifamily property owners have seen demand return as quickly as it vanished last year. Office owners, unfortunately, weren’t invited to the comeback party. Remote work has compressed leasing demand and has fundamentally…
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Why Build-to-Rent Homes Are CRE’s New Fifth Wheel
And then there were five. The commercial real estate industry is well known for its four core asset classes—multifamily, industrial, office and retail—but there is officially a new player in the game. New construction single-family rental communities, also known as build-to-rent, are quickly becoming a pillar in the industry in response to rising demand and…