Furniture retailer joins resi design tool for buyers to customise home

Security systems that understand human behaviour remove both hours of manual work and false alarms, startup Ambient.ai has said after raising $52m.

The real estate giant has selected a white label flexible office provider to operate its 60,000 sq ft flex space at London’s Aldgate Tower.

Completing one of the largest funding rounds in Austrian history, digital construction management startup PlanRadar has set its sights on the US, Asia and Australia.

The consultancy giant is to roll out a network of neuro-diverse centres of excellence in 13 locations after a successful trial.

Julie Hirigoyen, chief executive of increasingly influential real estate support group, UK Green Building Council, will address delegates on how to embed ESG throughout the industry at the forthcoming property technology show, due to take place in April.

Planning regulations are one of the biggest hurdles in installing necessary communications infrastructure across the UK, according to a survey by Cluttons.

Divvy Homes, a company that seeks to make homeownership more accessible with its rent-to-own product, has appointed a Blackstone managing director as COO months after securing a $2bn valuation.

Strict limits on transferring personal data under GDPR could cause "damaging and costly" disruption to businesses, DLA Piper has warned as data protection fines rose sevenfold in 2021.

Riding a wave of demand for location data in the wake of the pandemic, the analytics startup raised $100m in Series C funding, hitting a valuation of $1bn.

Real estate is “absolutely insufficiently prepared” for climate change risks, PropTech1 Ventures told PlaceTech as it closed its €50m inaugural fund with backing from an insurance investor.

The anticipated premium for greener ESG-focused office buildings is already being seen according to a study of US rents and sales pricing over 10 years by Cushman & Wakefield.