In PlaceTech’s podcast debut, Natalie Holmes chats to Andrew Farah, CEO of Density, about his technology that anonymously counts the number of people in a given space, using infrared lasers and computer vision. Take a listen to find out why this innovation is revolutionising how we think about office space.

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Zoopla’s parent company sold for £2.2bn

May 14 2018, 8:59 am

ZPG, which owns the property search portal, is to be acquired by American private equity firm Silver Lake.

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Colliers accelerator appoints MD

May 2 2018, 6:50 am Nicola Byrne

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.

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Ordnance Survey + Land Registry name latest accelerator winners

April 25 2018, 10:40 am

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

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TH Real Estate invests €1bn in smart building developer EDGE Technologies

April 25 2018, 8:33 am

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

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Don’t just adopt, create – the property people making their own tech

April 24 2018, 2:23 pm Nina Cresswell

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 […]