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What if you could buy a new home designed to your specification, ready to live in within a quarter of the time it normally takes to build a new house, while leaving just half the carbon footprint of other construction?

In what CEO Brian Chesky calls "the biggest change to Airbnb in a decade," the home rental company introduced a sitewide makeover Wednesday that makes it easier to find offbeat and niche properties.

Irish-founded start-up Wayleadr has been chosen as one of five companies to take part in the Sodexo UK and Ireland Accelerator programme.

Venture capital has been pouring into proptech startups this year as technology to track carbon emissions and decarbonize buildings scales up in advance of new SEC rules for ESG disclosures.

Sydney-based investment manager EG is backing the future of Australian property technology, today announcing a $100 million incubator called EGX.

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.

UrbanFootprint, an analytics startup that uses data to better map risk, raised $25 million in Series B funding, the company tells Axios. Why it matters: The round closed April 15, CEO Joe DiStefano tells Axios, meaning current funding rounds are still a lagging indicator of current private market activity.

Buildings are responsible for approximately 21% of all global carbon emissions, according to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and other facets of the built environment generate even more.

A confluence of factors has supercharged interest in the technology of monitoring, tracking and reducing building emissions, especially the expansion of ESG investment.

New research shows climate change will cause a steep increase in the exposure of U.S. properties to wildfire risks during the next 30 years, doubling the risk level in many areas, Andrew writes.