AI-driven construction management tool raises $16m
British/Israeli tech firm promises “to solve a challenge that for many seemed unconquerable”, says investor.
Tag: PropTech
Zoopla goes on another hiring spree to boost tech team
Property portal and PropTech firm is looking to recruit 50 new staff in London.
Purplebricks founder promises to ‘transform the property market’ with new proptech venture: Boomin
Michael Bruce and new CEO Gary Barker are continuing to tease the launch of a new proptech brand, promising that Boomin (hitherto known as Launch B) will “transform the property market for everyone”.
Reapit’s Barker steps down to join Micheal Bruce’s ‘Launch B’ start-up
Gary Barker has left Reapit after 13 years to join Purplebricks-founder Michael Bruce’s “data led, disruptive & Greenfield start-up” in Birmingham.
NAEA signs proptech development partnership
The newly-established UK arm of American PropTech VC programme REACH has teamed up with Propertymark.
New platform aims ‘to build a complete picture of the property market’
Anthony Codling has launched a new website, Twindig, with an ambition to host an online profile for all of the UK’s 28 million homes.
PropTech VC recruits research heavyweight
Pi Labs has brought in Andrew Saull from the University of Oxford Saïd Business School’s Future of Real Estate initiative.
OnTheMarket introduces virtual tour filter
OTM is the first big portal to allow househunters to exclude physical-tour-only listings from searches.
Challenger property portal postpones launch to July
Giles Ellwood’s Homesearch trumpets itself as “not just another portal, but the future of the property industry.
Google owner ditches plans for pioneering ‘smart city’
Sidewalk Labs has abandoned its grand plan to create a 12-acre “smart city” on Toronto’s waterfront.
‘Epic change’ for lawyers as the Land Registry relaxes its rules
“It’s rare that the Land Registry does anything which anyone outside the world of property law might want to read about,” says top property lawyer Nicky Richmond, “but today, May 4th, is that day.” Identity verification rules have been relaxed in light of the Covid-19 lockdown…