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Industry sources say click-and-buy strategies are an indication of the future of real estate investing, especially when it comes to single-family rentals (SFRs). That’s because transactions completed through online platforms can reduce the cost, time and risk involved in the process.
“There is no doubt that more and more of residential housing transactions are moving onlineand that trend wi...
Built Technologies, the leading provider of construction finance software, today announced the completion of its agreement to acquire lienwaivers.io, a leading provider of lien waiver management and payment solutions for commercial and residential construction. With the acquisition of lienwaivers.io, Built becomes the first full-stack construction finance platform to provide solutions for all key ...
Smart utility metering for power, gas and water, and video surveillance will remain by far the largest smart city segment, representing 87 per cent of the total number of smart city connections by 2026. This is according to new analysis by ABI Research. The company predicts that smart city tech investments will reach over $61bn globally in 2026. While metering is mainly focused on usage monitori...
FUTURE PropTech, part of the World’s number one real estate technology event series, has just launched the 2020 agenda. The event will gather 2,500 institutional investors, real estate private equity, fund managers, property developers, construction firms, facilities & property managers, surveyors, brokers and VC’s at Magazine London on 13 and 14 May.
The agenda will be delivered by ove...
SoftBank Group Corp. said it believes WeWork’s core business is still good despite governance and execution challenges. “We are still in it, we are involved, we are helping the company because we believe the idea at its core is very, very good,” said Deep Nishar, senior managing partner at SoftBank’s Vision...
JLL has announced the appointment of Kathleen Stubbs as Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Australia and New Zealand.
Most recently Kathleen was the Global Head of Infrastructure and Service Delivery (Deputy Global CIO) for Knight Frank’s global head office in London.
CEO of JLL Australia & New Ze...
Amazon, Apple and Google have teamed up with the Zigbee Alliance to create a single, royalty-free wireless protocol that will make smart-home devices easier to connect and use.
If you’ve ever remodeled any part of your home, you know the headache that comes along with the process. It’s not nearly as glamorous when you don’t have the deep pockets (or expertise) that HGTV’s Chip and Joanna Gaines have to deal with unexpected problems. Kyle Zink, the first marketing hire at Square, found this out firsthand after purchasing a home in Southern California a few years ...
Google’s chief executive officer has left no doubt about how important he thinks artificial intelligence will be to humanity. “AI is one of the most profound things we’re working on as humanity. It’s more profound than fire or electricity,” Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai said in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday.
This week witnessed several relatively large deals across a variety of countries, where deals in Morocco, Germany, the UK and North America dominated headlines. The majority of this week’s capital went to companies that aim to transform the hospitality, retail and residential categories through AI, SaaS, cloud and other technology platforms.