The Image Is Everything: On the risks & rewards of CGI for luxury property developments
Computer generated images and animation have become de rigueur in property marketing – and the stakes are high and rising, explains Mark Gleghorn of DBOX
Tag: PropTech
Purplebricks backs out of America as operating losses double
Hybrid estate agency reports strong growth in the UK, but is winding down US operations as operating losses double
Zoopla ramps up exec team with six new hires
Former Microsoft and Photobox man David Wascha joins PropTech conglomerate Zoopla as Chief Product & Technology Officer; five other new hires come from Experian, Simply Business, Callcredit, Dyson, eBay and Amazon
Zoopla upgrades mobile app to ‘pave the way for future innovation’
60% of househunters start their property search on a mobile device, says the property portal
Spencer’s Move iQ backs home reservation platform Gazeal
Phil Spencer’s property advice website has thrown its support behind anti-gazumping proptech enterprise Gazeal
In Pictures: Google owner reveals ground-breaking Toronto waterfront masterplan
Alphabet-owned Sidewalk Labs has developed a smart city regeneration plan for 12 acres of Toronto’s industrial waterfront, calling it ‘the most innovative district in the entire world’
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
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 securities