PropTech
Venture capital firm raises $1bn for PropTech investment
Fifth Wall has just raised over £700mn for the world's biggest ever proptech investment fund, taking the heavyweight-backed VC's total capital under management to around US$3.2bn.
LonRes launches mobile app
Subscribers can now easily access LonRes data on the move.
Grosvenor takes stake in ‘digital twin’ proptech firm
London landowner and international property investor Grosvenor has taken a stake in Pupil, a spatial data company that digitally maps the built world.
OnTheMarket rolls out new tech brand
"The launch of OnTheMarket Software will strengthen our position as a software solutions provider for our agents," says OTM chief Jason Tebb.
Construction tech firm secures massive investment
Modulous aims "to help developers, architects and contractors build net-zero modular homes without a factory."
AML platform Thirdfort secures more heavyweight backing
Credit intelligence company Pepper Advantage has followed the likes of Mischon de Reya, Savills and Knight Frank in backing risk management service Thirdfort.
Land Reg sets out a ‘new vision for a world-leading digital property market’
A new three-year strategy aims to "create a homebuying process of the future that is quicker, more efficient and more user friendly."
‘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".