HqO snaps up workplace insights leader Leesman
PlaceTech
The deal gives HqO and its customers access to the world’s largest database of employee experience data.
Latest Trends and Insights in Real Estate Technology
Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
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First ever commercial real estate title in Utah minted as an NFT
Utah Business
Future House Studios, a Utah Virtual Reality, and Metaverse company has shown its commitment to the future of blockchain technology by minting its office deed as an NFT, the first time an office building has been put on blockchain and the first time using a new legal model that promises to allow real property to remain and transact indefinitely on blockchains with substantially reduced transaction costs.
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Real estate risks being blindsided by data laws
PlaceTech
The industry has a false sense of security around compliance – and most companies lack the data expertise they need, a report from law firm Osborne Clarke has suggested.
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CompStak Breaks Into Multifamily Market With RealPage Partnership
Bisnow
As momentum in commercial real estate investment continues to shift away from the office market, proptech firms that cater to investors are following suit.
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Softbank-backed proptech startup Propzy dissolves part of Vietnam business
Deal Street Asia
Softbank-backed proptech startup Propzy has dissolved Vietnam’s legal entity related to direct sales staff two years after bagging a $25-million Series A round led by real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital and Soft Bank Ventures Asia.
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PropTech Today – why walled-off tech systems are no longer fit for purpose
Estate Agent Today
Today’s consumers judge a business not just on the quality of its products, but also on their experience in using them. That’s as true in the PropTech sector as it is anywhere else: agents, landlords and tenants know what a good user experience looks like, and they expect the PropTech they use to be fast, accessible and convenient.
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The World’s Leading Built World Sustainability Professionals Assemble in Copenhagen for CREtech Climate’s Inaugural Global Leadership Summit
CREtech
CREtech, the largest international community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, hosted its first ever in-person CREtech Climate Global Leadership Summit in Copenhagen on May 17-19. The Summit assembled the world’s leading sustainability professionals to take real steps towards decarbonizing the real estate industry.
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Proptech Putting Package Deliveries in Their Place
Commercial Observer
The continued growth of e-commerce, combined with the COVID-induced work-from-home trend, has made handling the crush of package deliveries more difficult than ever, especially in multifamily buildings.
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Sonder, once valued at $2B, lays off fifth of employees
SFGATE
A San Francisco short-term rentals company that was valued at $1.9 billion less than a year ago has now laid off a fifth of its corporate employees.
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There may not be any place quite like home, but offices can come a lot closer than they usually do
WSJ
What research tells us about how to make employees less stressed, more productive—and willing to leave home
