E-scooter firm welcomes UK trials

“Candle is a challenge to the industry to do better,” says Tijmen Schep, the Dutch inventor behind a privacy friendly smart home concept. “It’s a challenge, like a slap in the face of Google and all those companies like, ‘Hey why don’t do you do it differently?’”

On Friday consultation closes on controversial government plans to introduce new environmental standards for building regulations which many in property say is a backwards step just when leaps forward are needed. Adam Branson investigates.

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.

Investors who took control last year of prominent proptech firm, Asset Mapping, are being investigated by the Serious Fraud Office in relation to the £236m collapse of lending house London Capital & Finance.

Can you own property that only exists in a virtual space? US company Verses believes you can, and has developed a blockchain platform designed for exactly that.