Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
PlaceTech
Is real estate a force for good for the environment? Striking an optimistic note in her keynote address earlier this week, Julie Hirigoyen, CEO of the UK Green Building Council, showcased several exceptional buildings that suggest it can be.
CREtech
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EGI
Real estate tech entrepreneurs in the US are “not smarter” than those elsewhere in the world – they just have access to more opportunities, according to Raj Singh, managing partner of JLL’s global ventures fund JLL Spark.
Bisnow
Real estate investment firm Jamestown has announced that it has partnered with BitPay to accept cryptocurrency on commercial rent payments. Jamestown will not receive or hold any cryptocurrency; rather, BitPay will act as an exchange between Jamestown and its tenants, Real Estate Weekly reports.
IoT news
72% of information security leaders state that cloud computing represents a top priority in digital transformation. Cloud-based IoT software is changing the nature of both digital and physical security, allowing both security elements to be merged and used to leverage data better.
Crunchbase
The past few months have been challenging for U.S. renters faced with a combination of rising costs and low availability. Over roughly the last year, the median monthly asking rent reportedly increased a whopping 17 percent, with at least 10 metro areas posting hikes of 30 percent and up.
PlaceTech
The firm behind New York’s iconic Hudson Yards development has picked HqO as its tenant and workplace experience platform.
daryn
Brimstone Energy is taking on a challenge of biblical proportions: producing mass-market, zero-carbon Portland cement, a key building material. If it succeeds, the implications for the real estate and construction industries are so enormous that investors have poured $55 million into the startup before it has made a single dollar.
EGI
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.
TechCrunch
If you own a home, Sealed has a heat pump to sell you. The Manhattan-based startup, which helps homeowners replace their oil- and gas-gulping heating systems via an unusual financing model, has secured an additional $29.5 million in a new deal led by property-tech investor Fifth Wall. Other investors, including Robert Downey Jr.’s FootPrint Coalition and CityRock, also chipped in….
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