Yardi snaps up Forge

Build to rent and student accommodation operator Amro Partners has launched a venture capital arm to back startups in property and finance.

A Silicon Valley drone startup and a Portuguese smart city tech provider have come up with a way of building drone infrastructure networks by retrofitting existing streetlights.

Lincoln Property Company, one of the largest real estate firms in the US, has acquired a stake in workplace experience firm Equiem.

Adeptmind, an AI retail startup, has raised $6.2m in Series A funding to develop merged online and offline shopping experiences.

The residential platform has launched Spaciable Legal to accelerate the conveyancing process and cut completion times by more than a quarter.

Fixflo, the property repairs and maintenance platform, has been sold to German property software company Aareon AG in what founder Rajeev Nayyar called “the next exciting phase” for the business.

Startup Cervest, which calls itself the world’s first AI-powered climate intelligence platform, has completed an oversubscribed Series A fundraising round.

Explorium, a platform that automatically collects external data to improve users’ machine learning models, has raised $75m in Series C funding.

Having issued £120m of loans to SME housebuilders in the UK, Crowdproperty is expanding its international footprint to offer its P2P lending platform to new markets.