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  • Apis Cor raises $35M to disrupt the home construction industry

    FinLedger

    Apis Cor, a construction tech startup that uses 3D printing and robotics machinery to produce buildings, today announced raising a $35 million fundraise led by Rialto Markets, according to a press release shared with FinLedger. The company says it will use the funding to expand its workforce, fleet of printers and bulk trucks, and to establish multiple 3D printing material batching plants. It also said it plans to utilize the capital for ongoing product improvement and dev…

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  • Oxford Properties’ COO on why he hires people who can fail

    EGi

    Hiring people who “know how to fail” has been at the top of Dean Hopkins’ list of priorities since he took over as chief operations officer of Canadian real estate investor, developer and asset manager Oxford Properties in 2019. “I have injected 100 people into the business throughout the coronavirus

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  • Sonny Kalsi, Co-CEO, BentallGreenOak, To Deliver Keynote Presentation at CREtech New York Conference, This October 12-13

    CREtech

    New York (May 13, 2022) CREtech, the world’s leading community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, has announced Sonny Kalsi, Co-CEO, BentallGreenOak, will deliver a Keynote Presentation at CREtech’s flagship conference, CREtech New York, this October 12-13, 2022. Sonny’s Keynote Presentation will take place on the Main Stage on the first day of the conference. BentallGreenOak (BGO) is a leading, global real estate investment management advisor and a …

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  • The World’s Leading Built World Sustainability Professionals Assemble in Copenhagen for CREtech Climate’s Inaugural Global Leadership Summit

    CREtech

    New York (May 10, 2022) — CREtech, the largest international community of professionals devoted to technological innovation in the real estate sector, hosted its first ever in-person CREtech Climate Global Leadership Summit in Copenhagen on May 17-19. The Summit assembled the world’s leading sustainability professionals to take real steps towards decarbonizing the real estate industry. Attendees of the CREtech Climate Global Leadership Summit had front row seats to high-level presentations f…

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  • Quick chart: Workplace visits

    Axios

    “We expect the momentum to continue,” says Envoy head of analytics Jonathan Weindel. “And we see it in the headlines — almost every day more companies are either coming back fully, or coming back in a more hybrid fashion.”

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  • Summer launches second home ownership platform

    FinLedger

    Summer, a proptech aimed at streamline second home ownership, today announced raising a $13.4 million seed funding round led by QED Investors and Lightspeed Ventures Partners, according to a press release. The company, launched this year by two previous Airbnb employees (CEO Paul Kromidas and COO Woods Buckley), says it is will use the funding to expand its homes and markets, and increase its remote-first team size (placing emphasis on engineering, sales, interior design and operation roles)….

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  • PropTech startup YouConvey aims to improve home-moving process

    Business Cloud

    Liverpool-based PropTech startup YouConvey has now raised £300,000 to make the home-moving process quicker and less stressful. It has raised the investment over two rounds from Nova Growth Capital since it was founded in 2021. YouConvey is described as a collaborative conveyancing service which allows customers to complete admin tasks often assigned to busy conveyancers. They are given access to all the necessary documentation they need to complete on day one of their transaction, allowing…

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  • PropTech required to slash risk of fraud, letting agents told

    Letting Agent Today

    Letting agents have been told they must have the right technology to reduce the risk of fraud. Olly Thornton-Berry, co-founder of risk management platform Thirdfort, says that agents should not solely rely on manual database checks and require help to reduce fraud risks, as a result of the frenzy over sales and lettings in recent

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  • Colliers Elevates Data Center Advisory Capabilities with Veteran Leader

    Colliers

    Leading diversified professional services and investment management company Colliers announced today that it has hired experienced data center professional Raul Saavedra as Executive Vice President and Head of Data Center Advisory for the Americas.

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  • Is there value in quirky ‘green’ design features?

    PlaceTech

    Should we line buildings with recycled jeans for insulation – or would that be written off as a slick marketing ploy to get people talking? That’s not a hypothetical question. Recently over lunch, an architect asked me if I’d heard of a building in Amsterdam that did, in fact, use old jeans as insulation. The building in question was Circl – a mixed-use development built on the premise of packing in as much recycled materials as humanly possible. Even the on-site restaurant is in on it, us…

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