Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
The Real Deal
Homie, the real estate industry disrupter selling properties in Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho and Nevada, laid off 119 employees this week — 28 percent of its staff — claiming it was struggling in a market bereft of supply.
VentureBeat
As the pandemic-induced demand for real estate accelerates, large property managers are boosting their investments in digital technologies to help manage their various buildings. Even pre-pandemic, 95% of real estate companies had someone responsible for running point on digital transformation and innovation efforts, according to a 2019 KPMG survey. Most cited the need for improved efficiencies, cost reduction, enhanced decision-making, and better asset management….
CREtech
Raja Seetharaman, Co-founder of propstack, speaks to how technology is transforming the historically opaque nature of the real estate market in Asia Pacific to become much more transparent, and how this will benefit owners, operators, and tech companies.
CREtech
Dan Doctoroff, Founder & CEO of Sidewalk Labs, discusses the big vision that formed Sidewalk Labs and the connection with Google that made them the ideal partner. Dan also shares their mission at Sidewalk Labs and his thoughts on the role the public sector will play in legislating net zero commitments in the built world.
Wall Street Journal
Property startups emerged as one of the hottest tickets for venture investors during a record-breaking 2021. The recent stock-market selloff is testing the limits of that boom.
CREtech
New York, NY (February 17, 2022) — CREtech, the largest international community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, has announced Andre Brumfield, Principal & Global Leader for Cities + Urban Design, Gensler, as a Keynote Speaker at CREtech’s debut West Coast conference in 2022, CREtech San Diego, taking place in person on March 22-23 at the San Diego Convention Center. Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 50 locatio…
Honeywell
Honeywell (Nasdaq: HON) today announced that Verdantix has named it to the independent research firm’s Green Quadrant – IoT Platforms for Smart Buildings 2022 report. The Verdantix report highlights a market that consists of innovation driven by the need to meet expanding customer demand. The report states, “building IoT platform vendors are well-placed to tackle key use cases and generate value across real estate portfolios for the full range of building stakeholders, from C-suite executives…
Strategy + Business
Real estate is traditionally defined as the “where” of our work and personal lives. But Christian Ulbrich, CEO of global real estate services company Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), believes the industry’s future lies at the intersection of the “where” and the “how”—reflecting people’s experiences in physical spaces and the effect those spaces have on the surrounding community and the world at large. Since taking the helm a little more than five years ago, Ulbrich has been outspoken in his view that b…
CREtech
Nikolas Samios, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of PropTech1, takes a deep dive into why Europe is leading the way in addressing climate change and an overview of what they look for when investing in early-stage companies.
The Negotiator
Knight Frank is one of 17 property firms to invest £116 million into a new proptech fund which is now looking to back start-ups in Europe. Other big names in the Fifth Wall fund BNP Parisbas, which owns Strutt & Parker and UAE property giant DAMAC Properties, which is also active in the UK.
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