My proptech life | Jeremy Luck, project director at Crown Workplace

Wi-Fi trees, driverless transport, smart buildings and co-working will be commonplace in 2040 according to a new report.

‘What does good look like?’ That was the question a senior director of a multi-disciplinary property group put to me over breakfast as she grappled to understand where her firm stood in the proptech pecking order.

The organiser of the MIPIM stable of property industry events is expecting 1,500 delegates at the inaugural MIPIM PropTech Europe, to be held in Paris on 20 and 21 June this year.

PlaceTech looks at three of Europe’s most impressive Smart Buildings, to find out how new technologies are impacting energy efficiency and enhancing employee experience.

Entrepreneurs with the vision to transform the retail and leisure market are being invited to apply for an incubation programme, set to bring their ideas to life.

With around £11m of orders already secured, Manchester-based Wondrwall expects to start shipping its smart home technology — the culmination of four years’ development — at the start of next month.

Retail developer Hammerson, industrial specialist Segro and insurer Lockton are the latest investment partners to put money into the pot at Concrete Venture Capital, the specialist proptech fund.

TEM Property, part of the Tatton Estate, has successfully trialed its own superfast broadband using radio antennae to bounce signals around the estate, after balking at the prices quoted by conventional suppliers.

We’ve all heard of green energy, but what about smart energy? This short film by Innovate UK, the government’s industrial research agency, shows how innovation should mean the future looks brighter than ever.

Sensors allow us to monitor, control and understand our surroundings in ways we’d hardly thought possible just a few years ago.

Richard Abbots, founder of Inventory Hive, explains why the inventory report app has evolved into something far more powerful.