Zoopla’s parent company sold for £2.2bn

Colliers International and Techstars, a worldwide network for entrepreneurs, have announced that technology industry veteran, Ben Liao, has joined as managing director of the Colliers Proptech Accelerator, the fund launched in January by the global property advisor and managed by Techstars.

From maximising the value of rooftop space to providing transparency to estate agents and sellers – meet the new Geovation cohort.

The Edge Technologies portfolio will begin with offices in Amsterdam and Berlin worth €200m combined.

Increasingly, as an alternative to tech firms working across industries, we see this technology coming from those working, or those who have worked, in the property sector. Oli Farago created web-based acquisition and asset management platform Coyote Software in 2009, allowing for — the company says — faster analysis of investment opportunities; greater market intelligence […]

The rival to office space provider WeWork is currently working on using blockchain to enhance the commercial property sector.

Investors including Life Ventures and EPIC Private Equity LLP will work with the property compliance platform to solve licensing problems facing landlords.

JLL Spark has bought portfolio management software Stessa.

The peer-to-peer mortgage lender has already exceeded its target of £1.25m

Up to 40 buildings across Manchester city centre could be connected to 10 Gigabit internet services from the Northern Quarter to Spinningfields and First Street to Ancoats under a 10-year deal between fibre network The Loop and thriving local ISP Telcom.