Belong secures $80M to take the pain out of rental property management

Historically, the relationship between landlords and tenants can be a contentious one.

At the same time, the experiences of managing a property, and renting one, are not always smooth.

Ex-Unibail Chief Raising £850M And Bringing Wooden Building Fund To UK

An investment management firm set up by former Unibail-Rodamco chief executive Guillaume Poitrinal is raising a new €1B (£848M) fund to develop sustainable commercial buildings using wood and will look to build in the UK for the first time.

Gensler’s Morgan warns of ‘collective near-death experience’ in climate crisis

Architecture firm Gensler’s ESG consultancy director, Juliette Morgan, has warned that the real estate sector and global population is facing a “collective near-death experience” in the face of the climate crisis. Speaking at the CREtech Climate event in Copenhagen this week, Morgan said that as the threat of climate change

Beckerman turns to climate, sustainability as next frontier for CREtech platform

For Michael Beckerman, the conversation began as a means of brainstorming for virtual conferences in the midst of the pandemic. Soon it would become a full-fledged epiphany. That’s how Beckerman — the commercial real estate technology guru, trade show host and former public relations maven — describes his discussions in 2020 with entrepreneurs Lindsay Baker and Brendan Wallace. As he recalls, the startup founders pointed to how real estate was affecting climate change, noting that the industr…

a16z’s IPO Megahits Fall Hard

Early last summer, iconic Silicon Valley venture firm Andressen Horowitz (a16z) was at the top of its game, having delivered the best exit year in its history. From Airbnb to Coinbase to Robinhood, high-profile portfolio companies were launching or planning public offerings with initial valuations in the tens of billions.

Is California multifamily housing ready for the new economics of solar?

California utility regulators have a decision to make about the financing of solar projects, and so do multifamily housing property owners. Regulators are considering greatly reduced rates for utility customers who feed solar energy to the grid. A December 2021 proposed decision by the California Public Utilities Commission would erode long-term solar cost savings and the timeline for return on investment. The timeline for approving new rates, known as net energy metering (NEM) rates, is uncl…

Israeli construction tech unicorn hopes to transform home building

What if you could buy a new home designed to your specification, ready to live in within a quarter of the time it normally takes to build a new house, while leaving just half the carbon footprint of other construction?

Want to rent a castle? Airbnb has an upgrade for that

In what CEO Brian Chesky calls “the biggest change to Airbnb in a decade,” the home rental company introduced a sitewide makeover Wednesday that makes it easier to find offbeat and niche properties.

Wayleadr chosen to take part in accelerator programme

Irish-founded start-up Wayleadr has been chosen as one of five companies to take part in the Sodexo UK and Ireland Accelerator programme.

VC Funding for Proptech Skyrockets as ESG Monitoring Advances

Venture capital has been pouring into proptech startups this year as technology to track carbon emissions and decarbonize buildings scales up in advance of new SEC rules for ESG disclosures.