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Hiring people who "know how to fail" has been at the top of Dean Hopkins' list of priorities since he took over as chief operations officer of Canadian real estate investor, developer and asset manager Oxford Properties in 2019. "I have injected 100 people into the business throughout the coronavirus
"We expect the momentum to continue," says Envoy head of analytics Jonathan Weindel. "And we see it in the headlines — almost every day more companies are either coming back fully, or coming back in a more hybrid fashion."
Summer, a proptech aimed at streamline second home ownership, today announced raising a $13.4 million seed funding round led by QED Investors and Lightspeed Ventures Partners, according to a press release.
The company, launched this year by two previous Airbnb employees (CEO Paul...
Liverpool-based PropTech startup YouConvey has now raised £300,000 to make the home-moving process quicker and less stressful.
It has raised the investment over two rounds from Nova Growth Capital since it was founded in 2021.
YouConvey is described as a collaborative conveyancing service which allows customers to complete admin tasks often assigned to busy conveyancers. They are given acce...
Letting agents have been told they must have the right technology to reduce the risk of fraud.
Olly Thornton-Berry, co-founder of risk management platform Thirdfort, says that agents should not solely rely on manual database checks and require help to reduce fraud risks, as a result of the frenzy over sales and lettings in recent
Leading diversified professional services and investment management company Colliers announced today that it has hired experienced data center professional Raul Saavedra as Executive Vice President and Head of Data Center Advisory for the Americas.
Should we line buildings with recycled jeans for insulation – or would that be written off as a slick marketing ploy to get people talking?
That’s not a hypothetical question. Recently over lunch, an architect asked me if I’d heard of a building in Amsterdam that did, in fact, use old jeans as insulation.
The building in question was Circl – a mixed-use development built on the premi...
A/O invests in companies decarbonising the built world. This means a core part of our investment thesis focuses on technology which digitises, streamlines and scales energy retrofits for existing buildings. In our first investment report, we outline Our approach to segmenting the retrofit technology market and analyse venture capital deal trends in Europe and the US.
We didn’t just want a pleasant backdrop to the meeting of minds we hoped the summit would be; rather we wanted it to be an inspiration in itself in our mission to decarbonise the built world. We wanted people to look out and think: “This is great; how do we bring these innovations to our communities, and how do we go even further?”