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Make it easy | Decarbonising the built environment is clearly not easy, and can overwhelm those that confront the challenge for the first time. We need to make it seem easy to encourage change. Look for ready-to-go technology. One thing we don’t have is time on our side. Complacency, apathy, greed are arguably the biggest blockers, not the necessary tech, all of which has been ...

The trick to getting an industry like real estate to address climate change is to make it easy. So said NREP and sustainable urbanism VC 2150 founder Mikkel Bülow-Lehnsby at CREtech Climate in Copenhagen this week. Speaking to a room of key players from across the world on how the

The facility — which architect Daniel Statham Studio calls "car parking for the future" — will accommodate 500 cars on six levels, four of them underground.

Despite being one of the single largest industries globally, the property and real estate sector, both locally and abroad, have remained well behind the technology curve. According to Grant Phillips, CEO of fintech specialist, e4, massive change is on the horizon.

Well, real estate technology, or “proptech” is the application of information technology and platform economics to real estate markets, according to Wikipedia, and JLL estimates there are over 8,000 businesses in proptech, so people may need help evaluating the many players from which to choose.

Last week, the company announced its latest acquisition: Asset Plus, an energy service provider that helps the UK public sector decarbonise through energy efficiency measures and retrofits. These include things like heat pumps, LED lighting and solar power.

Y Combinator, a Silicon Valley kingmaker, is advising its portfolio founders to “plan for the worst” as startups across the globe scramble to navigate a sharp reversal after a 13-year bull run.

Defying investors’ waning interest in risky proptech stocks, the sponsor pair behind Porch’s 2020 rocky SPAC merger are taking another firm public — this time are targeting the hot single-family rental sector.  

After two years of unprecedented change, disruption and a forced reliance on tech like we have never seen before, all eyes are on the real estate tech companies and individuals continuing to make waves as the future of work, office and life in general starts to settle into a new pattern.