Jargon buster | What is machine learning?
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Maurice Grassau, CEO of Architrave, cuts through the buzzwords and hype to explain what machine learning is and what its use is in real estate.
Latest Trends and Insights in Real Estate Technology
Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Electrify America Charges Up With Huge $450M Round; Twelve Raises Large Round To Transform Carbon
Crunchbase
As inflation continues to push energy prices higher, and both consumers and companies look for ways to cut carbon emissions, investors’ interest in energy and ways to cut down on the use of fossil fuels was high this week. Three startups in the ecosystems of energy and carbon emissions made it into the top five. While companies in that realm did well, it was another slow week in funding. The final four companies made the list with raises less than $100 million. …
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What Coyote’s data reveals about… Covid’s impact on office rents
PlaceTech.
In a new series exploring the depth of market insights among tech providers, Coyote shows what its data can tell us about office rents since the start of the pandemic. Coyote’s software helps real estate teams store, manage and analyse any data relevant to them (such as leases, occupancy and deal pipeline). By extension, it gives Coyote itself a deeper understanding of market trends.
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Microshare launches React-M app to aid BPM and behavioral change
Microshare
Harnessing Microshare’s Sensing Network data to address labor shortages and sustainability PARIS, July 6, 2022 – A powerful new app that links Smart Building data and Digital Twins with practical business operations debuts today at the LoRaWAN World Expo in Paris, launched by Philadelphia-based Microshare, a leading Smart Building technology and sustainable data firm. The new app, dubbed React-M, pushes recommendations, alerts and scoring data directly to relevant teams and professionals…
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The DMZ and GroundBreak Ventures launch PropTech incubator program, helping Canadian startups transform the global real estate landscape
DMZ
Toronto, Canada, July 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, the DMZ and GroundBreak Ventures launch applications for a specialized PropTech incubator, fuelling the potential for startups to redefine the real estate sector and build high-impact, world-class enterprises….
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Stake Raises $12 Million in Series A Round
GlobeSt
Protech startup Stake closed a $12 million series A funding round. The company offers cash back to renters, creating incentive programs that it claims provide more efficient and effective operations to owners and operators.
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Major construction firms team up to get the carbon out of concrete
Canary Media
A consortium of construction firms, property developers and building engineers plans to use their collective heft to drive down the carbon emissions of one of the world’s most ubiquitous building materials. As part of the new ConcreteZero initiative, 17 companies have pledged to bring the proportion of “low-emissions” concrete they use to 30 percent by 2025 and 50 percent by 2030. The companies — which include major European construction firms such as Laing O’Rourke, Mace, Skanska UK and Willmo…
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Amazon rolls out fleet of e-cargo bikes to make deliveries in the UK
GeekWire
Amazon is rolling out a fleet of e-cargo bikes and on-foot delivery staff in the United Kingdom as part of its efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
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Remote Work Is Turning Williamsburg Into an NYC Shopping Mecca
Wall Street Journal
A shopping boom in Brooklyn’s trendy Williamsburg neighborhood is the latest sign that remote work is helping revitalize retail real estate in New York City’s residential areas.
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A Star Is Born: UK Single-Family Rental Gets Real
Bisnow
Eight months after they announced a tie-up, £47B real assets business Aviva Investors and UK housing specialist Packaged Living have picked their first UK single-family rental project, buying 195 homes in the West Midlands new town of Telford….
