Technology
Behind The Schemes: Designing super-prime ‘smart homes’ for the Mayfair rental market
Mayfair House, a boutique rental scheme on Shepherd Street, achieved a record five wins at the annual EMEA CEDIA Awards, picking up Best Multiple Dwelling Unit Design, Life Lived Best at Home, Technology…
Breathing Space: The importance of improving indoor air quality in period and new-build properties
In China, clean air is advertised as a luxury product.
OnTheMarket reports a ‘strong year of progress’ despite widening losses
The challenger portal has updated the City on how the conversion from free to paying contracts is going, and reveals what it spent on advertising last year (a lot)...
Listen: Clever thinking on smart home technology
Experts from the worlds of prime property development and home automation share their insights in this special episode of The Integrated Home podcast, produced in association with PrimeResi
Investors back ‘game-changing’ AI platform for property developers, designers & planners
Norwegian start-up Spacemaker raises $25m in Series A funding from Round Hill Ventures, Atomico, Northzone & Nordic developers NREP and OBOS
New ‘big data’ platform allows estate agents to mine detailed property intel
Homesearch aims to become 'the port of call for residential property information, transaction history, demographic data, insights and reporting'
Property reviews platform raises £1m; plots national expansion
Homeviews launched earlier this year, pitched as 'TripAdvisor for Property'; it's just raised over £1m to fund expansion into cities beyond London
LonRes rolls out new alert service for buying agents
Retained agents can now flag a client’s property requirements to the platform's 6,000-strong network across London and the country, ensuring that 'no stone is left unturned'
Chestertons makes the switch to electric
33-branch firm becomes the first major player to replace its entire fleet with zero-emission vehicles, while shifting all of its offices over to a renewable energy supplier
Watch: This ‘game-changing’ 3D visualisation platform is helping designers and planners see into the future
Aiming to render physical models and CGIs fully redundant, a "revolutionary" tool for London's architects, developers, advisors and planners has been rolled out to a wider audience.
New connectivity rating scheme launches for UK homes
Office infrastructure rating scheme WiredScore launches residential certification, focusing on the British build-to-rent sector
Re-imagining real estate: How ‘tokenisation’ is transforming global property investment
The blockchain ecosystem is growing, says Steven Lang of Savills, and this ‘tokenisation’ has the potential to revolutionise the global real estate sector by fragmenting real-world assets into digital…