Technology
‘Crypto winter’ drives metaverse real estate crash
Virtual land prices have tumbled by an average of 66% since January, while the volume of metaverse real estate being traded has tanked by 97% from its November peak.
Knight Frank, Savills & Chestertons back AML platform Thirdfort
A trio of major estate agencies have invested in anti-money-laundering platform Thirdfort.
Zoopla launches ‘industry first’ transaction tracker
Property portal Zoopla is rolling out a Progression Portal to make it easier for estate agents to track deals - and potentially to make some extra money on the side.
Fifth Wall builds $500mn Climate Fund to decarbonise the property industry
"The real estate industry is the single-most contributed industry to climate change," says venture capital boss. "It's the culprit that was hiding in plain sight."
Top London architecture studio enters the metaverse, launching 5,000 virtual building NFTs
PLP Architecture is creating 5,000 Non-Fungible Tokens based around a virtual concept building, in an effort to "investigate where they can add value and cross over the digital boundary".
Bird’s-eye view unearths data on ‘hundreds of millions’ of homes around the world
US aerial imagery giant Vexcel has announced plans to roll out its ‘building attribute’ information in over 25 countries, including the UK.
Homesearch teams up with Propertymark
Big data proptech firm partners with top estate agency trade body.
SW London agency launches another luxury property with NFT
Fine & Country teams up with developer Burbeck Capital to sell real & virtual versions of a new project in Barnes.
Connells recruits tech chief
Julie Chapman moves from Ladbrokes-owner Entain, having previously spent 14 years managing technology matters at Tesco.
LonRes adds planning data to property listings
LonRes users can now quickly check planning applications that could affect a deal, directly from a property's sales details.
GetAgent adds two to its leadership team
Mal McCallion and John De Pree have joined estate agency comparison website GetAgent.
nurtur names new tech chief
BriefYourMarket co-founder Damon Bullimore steps up to run nurtur.group's expanding proptech portfolio as CTO.