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Fibre optic solutions provider Node Technologies has secured a £100,000 loan from NPIF to help ramp up expansion following successful installations around the UK.

A look at some of the products and services on display at this year’s Housing conference currently underway in Manchester.

After an intensive 15-weeks supporting six startups to develop their products, specialist proptech fund Pi Labs held a demo day to mark the end of the company's incubator programme.

The Series D investment round was led by the tech investment arm of Brookfield Asset Management and is believed to be the largest venture financing made for commercial real estate software.

The specialist property peer-to-peer lender has raised £1.1m to push ahead with its expansion plans and fund “hundreds of millions of pounds of property projects a year”.

Some of the world’s largest banks and law firms have come together to take part in a global blockchain trial to dramatically speed up property transactions.

Aaron Block and Zach Aarons, partners of early-stage venture capital firm MetaProp, are set to become authors with their book, PropTech 101. Here's an extract from chapter three titled: Industry strategies for engaging with proptech.

Meet the startups from the 2018-19 class of the MetaProp Accelerator @ Columbia University, who pitched to a crowd of proptech investors, entrepreneurs and real estate executives from the likes of CBRE, Blackstone, Cushman & Wakefield, and more.

Yoti is one of wave of e-signature providers that is accelerating contract completions for estate agents and others through remote signing and even using biometrics such as facial recognition through your mobile.