PropTech
AI-driven construction management tool raises $16m
British/Israeli tech firm promises "to solve a challenge that for many seemed unconquerable", says investor.
Zoopla goes on another hiring spree to boost tech team
Property portal and PropTech firm is looking to recruit 50 new staff in London.
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.
Watch: OnTheMarket boss Beattie on how Covid-19 could change the property portal landscape
The Coronavirus crisis could precipitate a big shift in the property portal landscape, says Clive Beattie, acting CEO of OnTheMarket.
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.