Proptech News
Residential development review site launches
Being titled as the ‘Tripadvisor’ for property, allowing tenants and home owners the chance to rate and review new builds, a new concept is hitting the market. Homeviews are said to be bringing transparency to the residential property market for the first time allowing users to read up on property before committing to living in…
PropTech in Estate Agency – Waste of Time or its Saviour
In very late 2018, Damon Bullimore, Co-Founder and Chief Information Officer of Brief Your Market and the EA industry legend that is ex Chief of YourMove, David Newnes (and now Director of Brief Your Market) dropped by the studios in Grantham to chat about the EA industry, PropTech, online vs hybrid vs High St Estate…
“How Tech will Improve the Property Industry” – LoveFilm Founder William Reeve
William Reeve, Founder of LoveFilm and initial Angel investor and Non-Exec Director of Zoopla, who also helped, found and grew Graze and Secret Escapes, former Head of Operations and indeed Undercover Boss at Paddy Power talks to me about what his thoughts and opinions on everything Proptech, Lettings and running a big company like Goodlord…
Wealth Migrate raise £1.6 million via Seedrs
Over funded at 217% on Seedrs, Wealth Migrate have raised over £1.5 million via the crowdfunding platform Seedrs – See there pitch here. “Making global property investing available to anyone, anywhere, from any amount, safe & simple.” The current valuation due to the recent successful raise puts the company now at £17 million. Global real estate…
Airbnb purchases Gaest from Denmark
With a vision for the meeting-space rentals marketing, Airbnb have snapped up Danish #proptech company, who offer a sleek solution for booking office-space venues for short term rentals, Gaest. The company which was founded only back in 2015 in Denmark already operates a global service that facilitates the likes of booking offices / commercial space…
Daily Mail highlights #PropTech
#PropTech certainly gets its fair share of PR exposure across industry news channels, investment and technology channels especially as new innovation and ideas seem to be hitting the market what would appear every single day. The national press also are happy to highlight the topic with The Daily Mail giving exposure to the increasing number…
Proptech Giant Goodlord Founder Tom discusses Proptech
Proptech Giant Goodlord Founder Tom discusses Proptech In late Autumn 2018, myself and the video crew popped down to the HQ of Goodlord in the City of London to chat with Tom, Donovan and William of Goodlord to talk all things Proptech, Letting Agency and Goodlord..and from that … We recorded 10 video interviews on…
GeoPhy is going to reveal the Real Value of your property
A Dutch AI Startup, GeoPhy, is looking to create waves in the real estate sector by identifying the real value of property. Founded in 2004 and part led by Dutch entrepreneur and co-founder Sander Mulders – The company has raised USD $33 million from investors to boost its global expansion. Investment has come from the likes…
Proptech startup Giraffe360 secures €1.1 million investment
Giraffe360 who are a proptech start up founded in Latvia are moving their offices to the UK (despite the global fears on Brexit) after they secured over 1 million euros via second round funding led by Change Ventures. Their technology is the use of digital photography (270 megapixel resolution) in order to showcase real estate…