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Weekly Radar #292: Painting Small Offices Green, $57M Added to Settlement Sum, REW Strikes First

What's covered in this week's GEM Crystal Weekly Radar: * Logan dives into the increasing demand for sustainable office space and how inventory appears to be falling short. * Compass "agreed to settle in its commission lawsuits" for $57.5 million. * Drew covers the first buy

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Proptech Earnings Radar - Q4 2023 (Series IV, Part III)

Fourth quarter results are finally (mostly) in for proptech’s public companies. We’re back at it, with high-level summaries of the ten companies we deem as the most important players in the broader category, and a table view covering the top thirty one companies. Without further ado, let’s

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Weekly Radar #291: The $418 Million Settlement, It Pays To Sign, Sustainability Arms Race

What's covered in this week's GEM Crystal Weekly Radar: * Drew covers this week's $418MM NAR settlement and what it means for brokerage entities. * How are buyers incentivized to participate in Redfin's new Sign & Save program? We cover the program details. Geek

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Weekly Radar #290: An Unlikely Cooperation, Binging a Comeback, Gold N Green?

What's covered in this week's GEM Crystal Weekly Radar: * Realtor.com and Zillow have agreed to a partnership - an unlikely agreement between two arch rivals. * We cover Microsoft's return to online real estate with Bing Homes. * Which PropTech categories are investors most interested

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Weekly Radar #289: A Resi Roll-Up, Contech Powder

What's covered in this week's GEM Crystal Weekly Radar: * Will the future of real estate PropTech adoption be driven by agents? Logan analyzes Opendoor's latest partnership with real estate agency eXp Realty. * Zacua Ventures just raised $56M for a new fund, specifically targeting contech

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Weekly Radar #288: The SaaS Carbon Grass Is Greener, Lender or Portal

What's covered in this week's GEM Crystal Weekly Radar: * BlueLayer raised a $10M seed round to build a product supporting carbon developers. * Drew Meyers covers Tomo, a new entrant into the home search portal space. Will the way it uses AI differentiate it enough from other

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Weekly Radar #287 - The Next Wellness Frontline Is In The Air , DOJ Weighs In, Realizing The Family Discount

What's covered in this week's GEM Crystal Weekly Radar: * How does air quality affect homebuyer purchasing considerations? * Buyer agents may see significantly higher competition for clients. Drew takes a fresh look at the most recent DOJ's stance and what it means. * Drew covers the

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Weekly Radar #286 - Sticking The Local Law 97 Landing, The Future Of Home Showings Is Here, What Is Seen Is Not What Is

What's covered in this week's GEM Crystal Weekly Radar: * We take a fresh look at New York City’s Local Law 97 and what the compliance periods could result in. * We cover Zillow's Immerse, and look at how it can revolutionize the future of

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Weekly Radar #285- The Climate Joneses, Standing Together in Shared Living Arrangements, and AI Teamed with Buses

What's covered in this week's GEM Crystal Weekly Radar: * The Science Based Targets initiative aims to help real estate firms contribute to the Paris climate agreement’s 1.5°C temperature reduction target by instituting new methods of emissions target-setting, accounting, and reporting. * Padsplit was recently

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Weekly Radar #284- Removing the Easy Button, “Greenhushing”, John Deere Partnerships, AI Revolution...

Here's what we're covering in this week's edition of the GEM Crystal: * New FCC regulation went into effect this week, looking to curb rampant robotexting. Real estate practitioners should expect lead volume to go way down but lead quality to improve drastically. * Companies are

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Weekly Radar #283- Sharing the Way Forward, The Good Bad and Ugly of Recreational Reuse, Tools of The Office Conversion Trade, Equity Angels, and Coffee to the Future

Here's what we're covering in this week's edition of the GEM Crystal: * Mark Choey from Highnote spoke with us for our Executive Interview Series. * REColorado recently partnered with four major MLS groups, unlocking listings in relocation markets for REcolorado agents. * Indianapolis' Bush Baseball

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Weekly Radar # 282 - A Peculiar Inman Decision, Adding Gravy to Agent Selection, Influx of As-a-Service, Blocks of Physicality Built of Blocks...

Here's what we're exploring in this week's edition of the Crystal Radar: * Inman is doubling down with two more events...a move that will degrade production quality. * A homeownership accelerator, Gravy, is set to be acquired by Clever Real Estate. Another soft landing for

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Weekly Radar #281 - Clearing the Way, Hedging Against Hedges, & A Tech City For Me But Not Thee?

Here's what we're covering in this week's Radar: * Identification verification company CLEAR partnered with Landing, a membership-based flex rental company. * Legislators are looking to restrict hedge funds and corporates from owning single family residential homes, but will the bills pass? * Let's hope

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Weekly Radar #280 - Crowdsourcing Local Intel, Buzzing From IoT, Sadness in Mobility, & A Flowing Puzzle

Here's what we're covering this week's edition of the GEM Crystal Radar: * Domicile announced their "Game of Homes," allowing users to challenge friends and put their real estate knowledge to the test in a new game. * Beewise is fusing tech like cameras,

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Flipping the CRE Script: Paying Your Tenants (Transmission #276)

Written by: Duke Long  [Adapted from Duke’s newsletter on December 14th, 2023] 💡CRYSTAL TRANSMISSION: Thought-provoking long-form articles covering a wide spectrum from innovative shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war to the implications of floating cities seen from beaches far

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Weekly Radar #279 - All-In On Commissions, Back With a Fractional Marketplace, & To Infinity And Beyond…For ConTech

Here's what we're covering in this week's edition of the Crystal Radar * The All-In Podcast discussed the commission lawsuits on their most recent episode, but none of the "Besties" argued for the value of an agent--a massive miss for NAR and the

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Weekly Radar #278- Let’s Build Better Tools Not Farmers, Incentives in Fours, and GEM's First Sleepover

Here's what we're covering in this week's (packed) edition of the GEM Crystal Radar * We're hosting our first ever GEM Diamond Retreat in a lava cave (yes, it's real and it's as sweet as it sounds). * An update

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Weekly Radar #277- The Bot, The Builder, And The Boulder, Sharing the REIT, & Much More...

Here's What We're Covering This Week: * We announced GEM's latest Biz Intel series to summarize the top of the funnel for any data needs. * NYC approved a pilot program to support the development of ADU's. * Arrived announced its Single Family Residential Fund.

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Weekly Radar #276- Modular Smoke, Feebleness In Proptech, Rewarding The Board, and Canvassing The Prefab Market

Here's what's covered in this edition of the GEM Crystal Radar: * Modular construction startup Veev, which has raised $600 million, is shutting down. * Hiten Samtani had a tweet thread about proptech's growing graveyard. * Carta shared data regarding board compensation. * Jupe is building modular buildings

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Weekly Radar #275- 370 Million Square Feet of Calling, If These Walls Could Walk, Filling the AI Shed

This Week's Radar Storylines: * The General Services Administration is looking at ways to modernize their mega portfolio, a perfect opportunity for any CRE startup. * "Interspecies Design" has become a talking point for buildings built with sustainability in mind. * tldraw released a new feature that utilizes AI

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Weekly Radar #274 - Completing The Loop Of Innovation, Sustainability Darlings and Dogs, OpenAI Ecosystem Updates

This Week's Radar Storylines: * ShowingTime+ is pitching a familiar tune: featured listings. In a sense, featured listings is exactly what online real estate was meant to disrupt 20 years ago. * JP Morgan research shows misalignment between core greenhouse gas producers and areas of tech investment.  * OpenAI's

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Proptech Earnings Radar- Q3 2023

Third quarter results are in for proptech’s public companies. We’re back at it, with high-level summaries of the ten companies we deem as the most important players in the broader category, and a table view covering the top twenty companies. On the residential side, Q3 saw the bombshell

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Weekly Radar #273- Steel'n Green, Alternative Concrete Goes Mainstream, and Emptying the We Bank

This week's Radar Snapshot: * As efficiency regulations tighten, green steel is one decarbonization tool that doesn't rely on offsets. The US Inflation Reduction Act will hopefully spur domestic innovation. * Alternative concrete companies are getting an increasing amount of national attention. We explore a few of the

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Weekly Radar #272 - Dropping The Ax, Following Up On The Mission, and Forging Ahead With 3D Printing

RADAR SNAPSHOT * The verdict in the Sitzer/Burnett trial was decided with less than three hours of deliberation, and additional class-action lawsuits were immediately filed against major brokerages. * Zillow acquired CRM Follow Up Boss for $400 million in initial cash consideration and up to $100 million in a potential cash

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Weekly Radar #271 - Redfin Breaks Stride, iBuying Everywhere, and Real Estate's Bluetooth Moment

Weekly Radar Snapshot: * Redfin's new Redfin Max looks to supplement their salaried approach with more traditional commission splits. * Offerpad partners with Anywhere to connect out-of-market iBuyer leads with agents. * MRI Software announced their adoption of the OSCRE commercial real estate data standard, as an increasing number of companies