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Schroders' Battersea building achieves Fitwel first in Europe

An asset belonging to the Schroder UK Real Estate Fund (SREF) in Battersea, South West London, has achieved a European first for the Fitwel standard, which is operated by the Center for Active Design.

Skanska's Visionary bags first WELL certificate in Central Europe

A commercial scheme built by Skanska in Prague is the first office property in central and eastern Europe to be awarded WELL Core & Shell certification.

Dublin façade proptech secures seed funding

FenestraPro, the Dublin-based tech company which provides software applications for the design of more energy efficient building façades, has announced a €1.2 mln seed funding round. Investors include proptech VC Pi Labs, Enterprise Ireland, and US AEC software distribution firm Applied Software.

Coyote appoints real estate veteran Bould as first chairman

Proptech company Coyote has appointed real estate veteran Rob Bould as the first chairman of the firm that was founded in 2017.

Chiswick Park is Europe's first wired certified campus

Chiswick Park, the business campus located in West London owned by private equity giant Blackstone, has become Europe’s first campus to be wired certified.

Data exchange platform Cloudscraper appoints CEO

Global real estate exchange, data and communication platform Cloudscraper has appointed HSBC's former global head of real estate finance as CEO.

Real Estate Innovation Network sets new European standards for digitalisation

The Real Estate Innovation Network (REIN), the organisers of the annual Innovation Contest at Expo Real in Munich, are rapidly expanding their activities. One of their goals is to establish European-wide standards that will advance the digitalisation of the real estate sector. The first product is a rental contract generator which produces modular, standardised contracts that can be used throughout the European market.

Proptech will die. “It will be simply the way of doing things”

Proptech has rapidly become an integral part of the real estate business. So rapidly in fact that in a few years from now the term won’t exist anymore. It will simply be the way of doing things. That is one of the main conclusions that Adrian Levy and Matt Taylor, partners at international law firm Clifford Chance, draw from research they have been doing into the proptech market.