Analysis

INTERVIEW: Pi Labs bets on transition to flexible offices

Pi Labs founder and CEO Faisal Butt explains how the proptech VC firm is riding the latest megatrends to make smart investments – and exits.

Charting proptech’s successes, against the odds

The New York edition of Propel by MIPIM, the new name for the conference previously known as MIPIM Proptech, moved fully online in December 2020 in response to the challenges posed by the global health crisis.

Firestarters – The Establishment: Vanessa Butz CEO and Founder of District Technologies

Vanessa Butz, CEO and Founder of District Technologies, and her diverse team in London, Lisbon and New York are working at the intersection of cities and technology, delivering digital solutions for real estate and corporate clients to connect work communities that people love and enjoy every day.

Editor's Letter: Innovation without barriers

The Editor of our September 2019 issue, Anthony O'Connor, explains how diversity, acceptance and change should go hand-in-hand as the proptech industry evolves.

Inspiring women

As women make up less than one in 10 founders in proptech, the entire industry needs to make a concerted effort to encourage, inspire and motivate more diversity of thought to better serve its diverse, global customer base.

Chasing unicorns?

Unicorn status is either a great ambition or an over-hyped goal depending on your view. But growing tomorrow’s European proptech success stories to a $1 billion-equivalent valuation will take a more mature European ecosystem of financial capital, skilled people and bags of collaboration.

Proptech’s age-related opportunities are blooming

Here’s what three great agetech/proptech companies are doing to create better living outcomes for our senior citizens.

Editor's Letter: The Age of Integration

The editor of our June 2019 Firestarters publication describes the holistic nature of real estate with technology and how everything is ultimately being connected.

Book review - 'PropTech 101: Turning Chaos Into Cash Through Real Estate Innovation'

MetaProp founders Aaron Block and Zach Aarons have written an insightful book on the future of real estate. Review by Karel Beckman

“The data is now the most crucial part of the real estate business”

But it isn't enough to just possess data, as explains Richard Gerritsen, European director of California-based software company Yardi Systems