Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
Bisnow
Common, the New York-based co-living operator, will debut in the UK in spring 2022, promising 3,000 apartments by 2023. Common will open its account with four schemes in London, totalling 664 units over five sites in Wandsworth and Westminster. This follows deals with owners London Green and SAV Group.
Business Insider
Cherre, the industry’s leading real estate data and analytics platform, today announced that it was named an Eighth Annual Real Estate Tech Awards (RETAS) Grand Prize Winner in the Mid Market Growth category. This is the fourth consecutive year that Cherre has been named a category winner, previously receiving RETAS in the Data, AI, Geospatial and Mapping, and Information and Intelligence categories….
VentureBeat
Data breaches and ransomware attacks are worsening, but most people aren’t taking simple steps to protect themselves, according to a report released today that polled 2,000 individuals across the U.S. and U.K. on cybersecurity attitudes and behaviors. The report was conducted by National Cybersecurity Alliance, a nonprofit security advocacy group, and CybSafe, a behavioral security and data analytics company….
Wall Street Journal
Big hotel companies are adding more all-inclusive resorts, betting that the pandemic will boost a business model that encourages guests to stay in one place. These resorts, where customers pay a flat fee that covers their room, food, drinks and other services, have recovered from the shock of the pandemic faster than other types of hotels, analysts say. They typically cater to tourists, who have been more eager to take trips again than business travelers. And they appeal to safety-conscious t…
PR Newswire
Rentigo, a rent processing platform for real estate operators, and HelloRented, the rental finance platform with cutting-edge AI-based underwriting capabilities and a unique, cash-based, alternative security deposit solution, announced today that the two companies have merged to form Qira. The new end-to-end financial services platform supports residential owners, property managers and renters through every financial interaction of the rent lifecycle. The company recently received $8 million in …
Axios
Nobody really knows what the future of urban transportation looks like, but chances are it will involve an electric skateboard. Why it matters: Automakers like Citroën are imagining a future based on the same basic foundation: A “skateboard” chassis consisting of a flat battery pack and four wheels. What goes on top of the skateboard is open to interpretation — everything from robotaxis to delivery vans and more. Driving the news: Citroën and two other large French companies are showing of…
Multifamily Executive
Living The Noom, designed by Mexican architects Sanzpont Arquitectura and Pedrajo Mas Pedrajo Arquitectos, is a concept of living designed around wellness and, in particular, the benefits of coexisting with nature—exemplified in the community’s exceptional green cover.
Bisnow
Newmark Group has acquired a majority stake of Space Management, which does business in France as the coworking brand Deskeo, for an unspecified price.
CREtech
Geoffrey Kasselman of CRG examines the duality of AI and the need for specific and accurate data to leverage it’s full capabilities. He also discusses the technology that is going up against climate change.
Techround
U.S. tech giants Apple, Facebook and Google currently employ tens of thousands of workers across London and, despite the challenges of the last 18 months, all have plans to expand U.K. operations in the months ahead. It’s not just Silicon Valley, however, that sees the U.K. as an attractive expansion market; the fast-growing U.S. proptech community feels much the same way.
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