Amazon picks nine innovations for green cities accelerator

As a proud media partner of MIPIM, PlaceTech will play a key role in bringing the annual real estate convention in Cannes to life on the digital stage.

As funding for proptech startups slows to a trickle, ideas that will help the built environment transition to green energy still entice otherwise wary investors.

The chief digital strategy officer at Hines tells PlaceTech why the company is a bit like Jaws when it comes to innovation and why the floodgates could open to adoption in the coming year.

Nearly half of real estate companies that have adopted three or more proptech tools are hesitant to invest further in the sector due to a lack of return on investment.

The company’s 340-year-old UK real estate business has put innovation at the heart of its strategy, launching an alternative investment team to pursue ideas to help transform its largely historical portfolio.

Warrington, a town in the northwest of England, teamed up with climate tech experts at IES to model the cost of retrofitting the city’s buildings and help it achieve its net zero targets.

Caught between the pressure to cut emissions and contend with macroeconomic concerns, real estate leaders and startups gathered in New York for two days of discussions about the sector’s most pressing issues.

Major European office players including LGIM, Axa, Landmark, TOG, Hines and Grosvenor, came together to debate the state of the flex market, Big Tech’s march into real estate and the impact of macro-economic headwinds at this special debate hosted by PlaceTech and essensys.

Pursue simple ideas that have a tangible and immediate impact on users rather than think about “big grand ideas”, speakers argued on the first day of Propel by MIPIM NYC.

Hear from Lauriane Halle, incoming MIPIM Propel director, at this special gathering arranged by PlaceTech in London later this month.

Perennially acquisitive proptech business MRI Software has agreed to buy PropTech Group, an Australia-listed residential tech company.