Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
GlobeSt
As the frog once sang, it’s not easy being green. In commercial real estate, there are two ways of taking that: reducing carbon footprint to improve ESG standing and also reducing costs at a time of inflation to retain more folding green in the profit column. That, presumably, is why affordable senior housing company 2Life Communities is extending its use of building management and control software from Embue.
Cision
Houze, a proptech startup based in Vietnam that offers a fully integrated real estate ecosystem for agents and customers through its offline-to-online platform, has raised a $2 million of funding led by DKRA Group, giving the company resources to continue expanding its services and growing its team to meet the demand in Vietnam and beyond.
Calcalist Tech
Israeli startup Guesty has announced the appointment of David Aber as Chief Financial Officer. Aber arrives at Guesty from his previous role as CFO of Seeking Alpha, the world’s largest investing community, and formerly served as CFO for top Israeli tech companies, including Taboola, Powermat, Finjan, and DSP Communications. “David is considered one of the leading CFOs in the Israeli tech scene and we are delighted to have him join the team,” said Guesty’s Co-Founder and CEO, Amiad Soto…
Antony Slumbers
Primarily driven by technological change (currently fast and most likely getting faster), the work we do, and how and where we do it, is upending every facet of the products and services delivered by the real estate industry. Simply put, the form factor and operation of real estate, across all asset classes, is in need of reinvention. What customers of real estate want is not what the industry has historically provided. Whilst famously not a fast industry to change, the extraordinary forcing fac…
Fast Company
When it opens up to tenants later this month, the Ascent, a 25-story, $125 million luxury high-rise in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will offer an array of swanky amenities, including an indoor dog track and spa, electric car chargers, and a golf simulator.
Travel Daily News
limehome, Europe’s technology provider for the hospitality industry and operator of fully digitalised design flats, will open a third location this summer in Eindhoven, in the Dutch region of Brabant, following Amsterdam and The Hague. Eindhoven is considered the design capital of the Netherlands. On the former gasworks site in the centre of the city, a new urban quarter will be built this summer, combining living, working and culture. limehome will build ten design flats with their own outdo…
PlaceTech
More than three-quarters of projects tracked by the American Institute of Architects have used building simulations to cut predicted energy use. As part of the AIA’s 2030 Commitment, which calls for all new developments and major renovations to reach carbon neutrality by 2030, architects around the world submit their portfolios with emissions-related metrics.
Letting Agent Today
Home set-up service Just Move In has announced a huge fund-raise of £4m. The service boasts Hamptons, Openrent, and Pickfords amongst and says it makes moving in and out of a home easier — whether you’re renting or buying — via a platform to manage activities, from setting up the broadband and informing the council of the new address, to recommending removals and storage companies.
GlobeSt
In the face of worries about a potential recession, layoff news, which had fallen from daily attention since the worst of the pandemic, is back. That’s particularly true in the once-thought-invulnerable tech sector. Layoffs are back in force and among corporate royalty: Netflix, Meta (formerly known as Facebook), Tesla, Coinbase, PayPal, Uber, Peloton, and Carvana. Companies with big backing, big sales, and now, big worries.
CREtech
CREtech, the world’s leading community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, has announced Sonny Kalsi, Co-CEO, BentallGreenOak, will deliver a Keynote Presentation at CREtech’s flagship conference, CREtech New York, this October 12-13, 2022. Sonny’s Keynote Presentation will take place on the Main Stage on the first day of the conference. BentallGreenOak (BGO) is a leading, global real estate investment management advisor and a globally recognized pr…
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