Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
Utah Business
Future House Studios, a Utah Virtual Reality, and Metaverse company has shown its commitment to the future of blockchain technology by minting its office deed as an NFT, the first time an office building has been put on blockchain and the first time using a new legal model that promises to allow real property to remain and transact indefinitely on blockchains with substantially reduced transaction costs.
PlaceTech
The industry has a false sense of security around compliance – and most companies lack the data expertise they need, a report from law firm Osborne Clarke has suggested.
Bisnow
As momentum in commercial real estate investment continues to shift away from the office market, proptech firms that cater to investors are following suit.
Deal Street Asia
Softbank-backed proptech startup Propzy has dissolved Vietnam’s legal entity related to direct sales staff two years after bagging a $25-million Series A round led by real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital and Soft Bank Ventures Asia.
Estate Agent Today
Today’s consumers judge a business not just on the quality of its products, but also on their experience in using them. That’s as true in the PropTech sector as it is anywhere else: agents, landlords and tenants know what a good user experience looks like, and they expect the PropTech they use to be fast, accessible and convenient.
CREtech
CREtech, the largest international community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, hosted its first ever in-person CREtech Climate Global Leadership Summit in Copenhagen on May 17-19. The Summit assembled the world’s leading sustainability professionals to take real steps towards decarbonizing the real estate industry.
Commercial Observer
The continued growth of e-commerce, combined with the COVID-induced work-from-home trend, has made handling the crush of package deliveries more difficult than ever, especially in multifamily buildings.
SFGATE
A San Francisco short-term rentals company that was valued at $1.9 billion less than a year ago has now laid off a fifth of its corporate employees.
WSJ
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CREtech
New York, NY (June 20, 2022) — CREtech, the largest international community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, announced today that speakers from Blackstone, Hines, Ivanhoe Cambridge and Tishman Speyer will join the speaker lineup for CREtech’s flagship event and largest real estate technology conference, CREtech New York, taking place this October 12-13. The two-day conference will feature exclusive keynote presentations, panel discussions, and de…
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