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  • The World’s Leading Built World Sustainability Professionals Assemble in Copenhagen for CREtech Climate’s Inaugural Global Leadership Summit

    CREtech

    New York (May 10, 2022) — 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. Attendees of the CREtech Climate Global Leadership Summit had front row seats to high-level presentations f…

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  • Quick chart: Workplace visits

    Axios

    “We expect the momentum to continue,” says Envoy head of analytics Jonathan Weindel. “And we see it in the headlines — almost every day more companies are either coming back fully, or coming back in a more hybrid fashion.”

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  • Summer launches second home ownership platform

    FinLedger

    Summer, a proptech aimed at streamline second home ownership, today announced raising a $13.4 million seed funding round led by QED Investors and Lightspeed Ventures Partners, according to a press release. The company, launched this year by two previous Airbnb employees (CEO Paul Kromidas and COO Woods Buckley), says it is will use the funding to expand its homes and markets, and increase its remote-first team size (placing emphasis on engineering, sales, interior design and operation roles)….

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  • PropTech startup YouConvey aims to improve home-moving process

    Business Cloud

    Liverpool-based PropTech startup YouConvey has now raised £300,000 to make the home-moving process quicker and less stressful. It has raised the investment over two rounds from Nova Growth Capital since it was founded in 2021. YouConvey is described as a collaborative conveyancing service which allows customers to complete admin tasks often assigned to busy conveyancers. They are given access to all the necessary documentation they need to complete on day one of their transaction, allowing…

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  • PropTech required to slash risk of fraud, letting agents told

    Letting Agent Today

    Letting agents have been told they must have the right technology to reduce the risk of fraud. Olly Thornton-Berry, co-founder of risk management platform Thirdfort, says that agents should not solely rely on manual database checks and require help to reduce fraud risks, as a result of the frenzy over sales and lettings in recent

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  • Colliers Elevates Data Center Advisory Capabilities with Veteran Leader

    Colliers

    Leading diversified professional services and investment management company Colliers announced today that it has hired experienced data center professional Raul Saavedra as Executive Vice President and Head of Data Center Advisory for the Americas.

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  • Is there value in quirky ‘green’ design features?

    PlaceTech

    Should we line buildings with recycled jeans for insulation – or would that be written off as a slick marketing ploy to get people talking? That’s not a hypothetical question. Recently over lunch, an architect asked me if I’d heard of a building in Amsterdam that did, in fact, use old jeans as insulation. The building in question was Circl – a mixed-use development built on the premise of packing in as much recycled materials as humanly possible. Even the on-site restaurant is in on it, us…

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  • Former UDR Exec Joins Proptech Investment Firm To Boost Housing Fund

    Bisnow

    Proptech investment firm RET Ventures has named Jerry Davis, a veteran of Colorado-based multifamily owner and manager UDR as a senior adviser, following the launch of the company’s Housing Impact Fund. Davis was president and chief operating officer of UDR, where he spent more than 30 years. In 2021, he stepped aside as COO but remained as president of the company until December 2021, when he retired from UDR entirely. …

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  • Decarbonising The Built World.

    A/O proptech

    A/O invests in companies decarbonising the built world. This means a core part of our investment thesis focuses on technology which digitises, streamlines and scales energy retrofits for existing buildings. In our first investment report, we outline Our approach to segmenting the retrofit technology market and analyse venture capital deal trends in Europe and the US.

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  • We all must be climate radicals

    Property Week

    We didn’t just want a pleasant backdrop to the meeting of minds we hoped the summit would be; rather we wanted it to be an inspiration in itself in our mission to decarbonise the built world. We wanted people to look out and think: “This is great; how do we bring these innovations to our communities, and how do we go even further?”

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