Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
The Guardian
After Jules Stewart ordered an electric vehicle, her next move was to ask the property manager of her northern Sydney apartment building about installing a powerpoint in the garage.
The New York Times
The news has gone from bad to worse for SoftBank.
The Japanese conglomerate said on Thursday that it had lost about $27 billion in its two Vision Funds for the year that ended in March, as many of the major tech companies it invests in have struggled under rising inflation, concerns about Covid lockdowns in China and broad weakness in global equity markets.
Silicon Canals
Copenhagen-based NORNORM, a subscription-based furnishing service offering workspace solutions through circular renting models, announced on Wednesday that it is expanding its business to the German market.
PRWeb
AnthemIQ, the leading transaction management software for tenant rep brokers, announced a partnership with CompStak, the nationwide commercial real estate data and analytics platform. With this partnership, tenant reps using AnthemIQ will be able to easily access CompStak data related to listings on the AnthemIQ platform.
PR Newswire
Livly, the nation’s leading enterprise-grade resident experience platform for apartment communities and early Web3 adopter, announced today that it plans to enable apartment renters to pay their monthly rent using cryptocurrency. The development of this strategic new capability would make the Livly Resident Mobile App the first in the multifamily industry to accept cryptocurrency as a rent payment option.
ESG Today
Investment giant BlackRock announced today it has raised over $800 million for the BlackRock Impact Opportunities Fund, which invests in businesses and projects owned, led by, or serving people of color, with a focus on Black, Latinx and Native American communities in the U.S. BlackRock stated that it targeting $1 billion for the fund.
PlaceTech
Sebastian Schuon, founder of Alasco, joins Paul Unger, editor of PlaceTech, to talk about how Alasco is digitising processes to maximise ROI and integrate ESG.
Businesswire
Habi (“Habi” or “the Company”), the data-driven residential real estate platform, today announced that it has raised $200 million in equity in its Series C funding round, becoming the first Property Technology (“PropTech”) unicorn in Spanish-speaking Latin America. The Company’s Series C also represents the largest funding round and only unicorn valuation with a female founder & CEO in Latin America1,2. The latest funding round was led by Homebrew and SoftBank Latin America Funds, with parti…
Medium
Within the PropTech sector, something has largely gone unspoken of until recently: the experiences (and lessons learned) from real estate groups deploying technology products. Recently, our CEO Faisal Butt chaired a panel at CRETech London alongside PropTech innovators and adopters on this topic. This was off the back of research conducted at Pi Labs over recent months, including dozens of detailed interviews with real estate professionals, technologists, academics and others. This culminated in…
Antony Slumbers
I’ve been reading much commentary recently on how to measure, to value, the modern office. Especially post Covid, as we clearly head into a world of distributed working, where the HQ is no longer the be all and end all of our working lives. Mostly I’ve not been very impressed. The thinking seems to be too constrained by how things have been, and iterating the past seems to be hard to get beyond. So here’s my take (as given within the #FutureProofOffice course I co-run, with Dror Poleg, at the …
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