commercial real estate

People are going back to the office — except in the Bay Area

Over the past decade, startups migrated north from Silicon Valley to make San Francisco the country’s hottest tech hub. The streets of the city were bustling as throngs of — mostly tech &#8212

Keyway secures funding to buy property from small business owners and lease it back to them

Keyway, a startup that buys property from small and medium-sized business owners and then leases it back to them, has secured $70 million in debt financing on the heels of a $15 million equity raise.

The return of neighborhood retail and other surprising real estate trends

As shocking as it sounds, we could be entering a much better era for small, local businesses.

Legaltech startup Orbital Witness scores £3.3M to create a ‘universal risk rating’ for real estate

Orbital Witness, a U.K.-based legaltech startup developing “AI-powered” software to transform the £4 billion U.K. property due diligence market, has raised £3.3 million in seed funding.

View, the dynamic glass company that raised $1.1 billion from SoftBank in 2018, is laying people off

View, a 13-year-old, Milpitas, Calif.-based company that makes dynamic glass designed to reduce heat and glare as well as lessen eyestrain, has cut an unknown number of employees, including at a plant

Should your company move into a co-working space, sublease space or traditional office?

It’s a cautionary tale we hear far too often: Company A, hiring staff and growing rapidly, finalized a 10-year lease for office space. One week after move-in they had filled their space to the brim.

Truss raises $7.7M for its commercial real estate tech platform

Truss, a Chicago-based commercial real estate (CRE) tech platform, today announced that it has raised a $7.7 million Series A round led by Navitas Capital, with participation from Hyde Park Venture Pa

Manhattan CRE prices spark a mass exodus of startups to Brooklyn

Manhattan, once the mecca for technology and innovation on the east coast, is now losing ground to the Outer Boroughs. Massive growth has led to high rents and lack of space for burgeoning businesses.

VTS raises $55M for its commercial real estate management platform

VTS, a commercial leasing and asset management platform for landlords and brokerages, today announced that it has raised a $55 million Series C funding round led by Insight Venture Partners. Previous

The Realities Of The Real Estate Technology Sprawl

The Federal Reserve values U.S. real estate at an estimated $40 trillion, making it the largest asset class in the country. So it shouldn’t surprise us that, as TechCrunch recently reported, in the

Real Estate Is Accessible And Easy To Navigate Thanks To These Startups

Real estate isn’t just for brokers anymore. Technology is creating an industry that’s consumer-facing, accessible and easy to navigate. From buying a space, to moving in, to even maintaining that

Hightower Raises $6.5M Series A For Its Commercial Real Estate Platform

Hightower, a “command center for commercial real estate,” today announced that it has raised a $6.5 million Series A round led by its existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Thriv

PivotDesk’s New Office-Sharing Marketplace Helps Startups Find Affordable Office Space

Ask any entrepreneur about what it's like finding the right office space for their company, and they'll probably respond with a grimace and some grumbling. Few light up at the thought of it. Founders

42Floors Takes Commercial Real Estate Online (Because Searching For Office Space Sucks)

Jason Freedman, co-founder of the new YC-backed startup <a href="http://42floors.com/">42Floors</a> launching today, says he got the idea for the startup because "searching for office space just reall