APAC Realty pumps $1m into AI researcher UrbanZoom

After an intensive 15-weeks supporting six startups to develop their products, specialist proptech fund Pi Labs held a demo day to mark the end of the company's incubator programme.

The New York-based venture capital fund is looking to raise $100m for its latest investment programme, MetaProp Ventures III, according to a filing submitted to the US Securities & Exchange Commission.

One of the UK's largest housing associations has agreed to buy 750 modular units from Ilke Homes. Five hundred units will be used for sites Places for People already owns, and 250 for new schemes.

Tech is moving faster than a lot of industries can keep up - but why has real estate been so slow to disrupt and change? What route does property need to take in order to act on the unprecedented opportunities to engage in innovation?

Gray Stern, founder and CEO, shares how Dot Residential allows investors to become residential landlords at the click of a button, with tenants ready to move in.

The ways in which people are choosing to live are constantly changing. Alongside the housing supply shortage and increasing pressure from conscious consumers, residential developers are having to turn to new methods of construction and technologies to prevent being left behind.

Tech is changing how estate agents are selling and letting properties. Whether that's automating processes to provide agents with more time to add a human touch to transactions, or embracing the age of social media to sell homes to the younger generations that are adverse to talking on the phone.

What was hot on the conference stages and exhibition floor at the biggest ever pure proptech gathering in the UK attended by nearly 2,000 people in London on Tuesday?