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The lustre of life as a landlord may be wearing thin - and a generation of digital property investors is emerging. Let’s first look at the evidence for why the landlord lifestyle may no longer be the strongest bet.
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Jatin Ondhia
31.08.2021
The house buying and selling process can be long, complicated and arduous. With much of the legalities still relying on physical paperwork, Barclays-backed Offr aims to digitise the entire process.
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Kirstie Pickering
30.03.2021
Rishi Sunak rocked the boat last week when he suggested people would quit their jobs if they couldn’t go back to a physical workplace. How has the pandemic actually affected our views on work?
30.03.2021
While the promise of a vaccine gives us hope that 2021 will see a return to the office, some elements of the pandemic world are here to stay.
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Mark Richer
26.01.2021
What will the next wave of PropTech (Property Tech) look like? As one of the last industries to fully embrace digitisation, property services in the commercial and domestic space are about to be transformed by a range of innovative technologies.
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Dave Howell
16.12.2020
“Crisis creates opportunity”, says Carly Morris, who’s joined OS from the International Airlines Group. With a new cohort of startups onboarding now, Geovation - with Carly at the helm - looks set to continue spearheading innovation within startups using location and property data, despite stormy seas.
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Carly Morris
01.12.2020
As a consequence of the pandemic, UK house prices have dropped by 7.5%. Looking to boost the market and update the current archaic systems, proptech startups are developing user-friendly concepts and platforms to provide landlords and tenants with transparency and financial clarity. Maddyness selected some of these proptech disruptors.
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Audrey Langevin
26.08.2020
Offr, the prop-tech platform digitising the buying, selling and leasing process for real estate agents and buyers, today announced it has raised £2.7M (€3M) in seed funding led by Barclays. Existing investors Delta Partners on behalf of Bank of Ireland, AIB, Enterprise Ireland, The European Investment Fund and Frontline Ventures also participated in the round.
20.08.2020
Hammock, the first current account for landlords and property managers, is fixing this problem and has raised £1M in seed investment from Fuel Ventures and Ascension Ventures to further develop its technology platform in order to give financial clarity to landlords and save them time and money.
17.08.2020
Launched in 2017, District Technologies is a mobile-first workplace experience platform that digitises the user experience for commercial real estate by connecting people with what they love in and around them. Maddyness spoke to CEO and Founder Lee Vanessa Butz to share her journey, discover more about District Tech and what the future holds for office spaces.
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Steve Duma
10.07.2020
Lockdown has led to a resurgence in local community engagement, providing opportunities for Hello Lamp Post in their mission to connect citizens with city decision makers. Maddyness spoke with Tiernan Mines, Co-Founder and CEO to understand how the company is coping during the COVID-19 pandemic and what the future holds.
11.06.2020
Millennials are inspiring fresh ideas that will change the workplace as we know it while getting companies to be more forward-thinking about the future of work. Millennials get talked about a lot and are playing a prominent role reshaping expectations, experiences, and practices in the workspace! But who are they really? And what do they want?
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Charles Kergaravat
02.04.2020
Hostmaker the disruptive rental property management company based in London, has gone into administration with rival Houst taking over management for their bookings.
04.03.2020
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