REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT, REAL ESTATE ADVICE
Bonaventure | October 21, 2022
Bonaventure, an integrated alternative asset manager focused on the development, construction, and property management of innovative lifestyle multifamily communities in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions, announced its partnership with Project Destined. Bonaventure’s partnership will support Project Destined and its mission to provide training in financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and real estate to students from underserved communities. Since its founding in 2016, Project Destined has worked with more than 4,500 participants in 35 cities across the U.S., the United Kingdom and Europe. Bonaventure welcomes its Fall 2022 mentee group from Georgetown University, Howard University, George Mason University, Virginia State University and George Washington University.
“We’re thrilled to be part of the extraordinary work Project Destined is doing to invest in the future of our industry’s leaders and innovators, We look forward to equipping these young students with the insights and skills necessary to understand what goes into forming communities, and are excited to show them a deeper look into our industry in hopes of inspiring their own personal and professional goals.”
-Dwight Dunton, founder and CEO of Bonaventure
Project Destined leverages a work-based learning approach where students join executives to evaluate actual commercial real estate deals in their community and compete in a pitch competition to industry leaders to earn scholarships. Bonaventure mentors will prepare, engage, and guide students one-on-one to help them develop a range of fundamentals including financial, technical, presentation, and leadership skills designed to aid them in obtaining internships, certifications, and full-time employment, launching their careers in commercial real estate.
We are excited to partner with Bonaventure to grow our work in Washington, DC, The Bonaventure team has invested incredible resources to provide this group of students with mentoring, exposure and networking opportunities. We are proud to partner to prepare the students for potential careers in real estate,said Cedric Bobo, Co-Founder of Project Destined.
About Bonaventure
Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia Bonaventure is an integrated alternative asset management company specializing in multifamily design, development, construction, asset management and property management with over 6,000 apartment units across 29 communities primarily in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States. Since its founding in 1999 by Dwight Dunton, Bonaventure has become one of the top 15 most experienced HUD developers in the nation and has completed $500 million in HUD loans and over $2.25 billion in transactions. With its focus on building enduring value through ingenuity, Bonaventure boasts a full suite of investment capabilities.
About Project Destined
Project Destined is a leading social impact platform that provides training in financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and real estate. Project Destined partners with corporations, schools, and non-profits to deliver training using its proprietary e-learning platform and love courses. Project Destined leverages a work-based learning approach where students work with executives to evaluate live deals in their community and present them in a pitch competition to industry leaders. Scholars emerge with the skills, confidence, experiences, and networks that prepare them to secure a strong first job and become stakeholders in their community.
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REAL ESTATE TECHNOLOGY
WegoWise and Measurabl | September 02, 2022
Measurabl, the world’s most widely adopted ESG technology platform for real estate, today announced its acquisition of WegoWise, a software platform for utility data automation and residential real estate from AppFolio, Inc., a leading provider of cloud business management solutions for the real estate industry. As a result of the acquisition, Measurabl will consolidate a mature, scaled utility automation backbone and residential real estate software application into its overall ESG platform, eliminating barriers to accessing utility data while authentically serving the rapidly emerging ESG needs of single- and multi-family real estate. The acquisition is Measurabl’s second this year, following the April acquisition of Hatch Data.
Until now, most utility data acquisition required a mixture of third-party technologies and service providers. WegoWise radically alters this dynamic with its proprietary utility automation infrastructure, which unlocks unique business and product innovation opportunities for Measurabl’s customers and partners while also further extending Measurabl’s leading position in ESG services to all asset classes from commercial to residential.
“Our product vision is to deliver ESG solutions for every real estate stakeholder from owners to lenders, occupiers to residents from meter to market, This is another major step in delivering on our expansive vision of removing barriers to sustainability data and making it accessible across the entire real estate industry.”
-Matt Ellis, CEO and Founder of Measurabl
Over the last several years, WegoWise has been vital in not only determining the multiplication of energy and water savings we have been able to achieve over our portfolio of communities, but in easily communicating that savings to our clients and residents, Now that WegoWise is part of Measurabl, we’re excited to have access to a more expansive, market-leading ESG toolkit that can help us bolster our ESG program even further,said Elizabeth Merzigian, Sustainability Manager at Peabody Properties, Inc.
WegoWise enjoys particular success in multifamily real estate and affordable housing, for which it developed nuanced product capabilities to automate utility data collection, benchmark assets and residential units, and support U.S. regulatory reporting. WegoWise’s customer base of over 650 customers is entirely additive to Measurabl’s already globally leading solution adopted across over 13 billion square feet of commercial real estate in 90 countries.
About WegoWise
WegoWise is utility data management and analytics software for real estate. The company was founded in 2010 in Boston. It quickly found success in the multifamily segment, for which it developed nuanced product capabilities to automate utility data collection, perform benchmarking and support local U.S. regulatory compliance reporting including the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae green loan programs.
About Measurabl
Measurabl is the world’s most widely adopted ESG (environmental, social, governance) technology solution for real estate. Customers use Measurabl to measure, manage, report and act on ESG data on more than 13 billion square feet of commercial real estate across 90 countries valued in excess of $2 trillion. Measurabl empowers customers to optimize ESG performance, assess exposure to physical climate risk, drive decarbonization and secure sustainable finance opportunities.
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MARKET OUTLOOK, REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT
Enlighted | October 27, 2022
Enlighted, a leading proptech company, announced the opening of its new office in Kitchener, Ontario. The new office will be a hub for technical product development teams and further the company’s global scope as it continues to develop cutting-edge IoT and sustainability solutions at the intersection of people, space and work.
“After two and a half years of the pandemic, in-office collaboration is a more critical part of hybrid working than ever before, As a proptech leader, we intimately understand the value in bringing together new and future talent to collaborate and ideate in person, ultimately creating a shared sense of purpose. We look forward to further tapping into the rich talent base in the Waterloo and Kitchener area to bolster our product innovation.”
-Stefan Schwab, CEO, Enlighted
Enlighted’s new office is in the Catalyst Building, a hub for Waterloo’s tech community. The Enlighted team will focus on the development of innovative smart building IoT sensors, data and software applications that enable customer productivity and real progress towards customers’ net carbon zero sustainability goals. The new office is designed to spark collaboration and innovation with a higher percentage of collaboration spaces and meeting rooms relative to other types of space.
The Waterloo region is attracting some of the most innovative thinkers in Canada, thanks to its strong combination of established high-tech companies, active start-ups and educational institutions, As a result, Kitchener has become a magnet for large companies who want to build engineering teams. Investing has helped us recruit some of the best minds, and access to the University of Waterloo allows us to invest in the next generation while giving our teams a real boost of talent and creativity,said David Wigg, Head of Software Engineering, Enlighted.
Enlighted has operated in Canada since 2019 and has grown to over 30 employees. The majority of employees will be based out of the Catalyst Building. The company has also developed strong ties with the University of Waterloo, one of Canada’s best universities for computer science and engineering. Since starting operations in Canada, Enlighted has worked with over 70 students from the university’s co-op internship program, hiring many as full-time employees. The office design and technology address the new requirements for hybrid work and uses Enlighted’s products to inform employees when is the best time to come to the office for collaboration and innovation.
About Enlighted
Enlighted is a leading proptech provider of IoT solutions at the intersection of people, space, and work. We offer a unique combination of cognitive environmental IoT sensors and lighting controls that connect to intelligent workplace experience apps, offering a singular, scalable, interoperable solution to address a spectrum of building, space, and productivity needs. Our customers leverage these solutions to enable occupant well-being, greater business efficiencies and momentum toward their sustainability goals. Enlighted is part of Building Robotics, Inc., a Siemens company.
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