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A few weeks ago, I was arranging a meeting with of his time between London, Dubai and Riyadh, this international man of built environment mystery isn’t well suited to a...
There has been an understandably high level of attention directed toward the environmental footprint of the built environment over recent years. As we have heard ad nauseam, the...
Over recent months, colleagues and I have been working on our latest piece of research analysing artificial intelligence use cases for the real estate sector’s environmental transition. What becomes clear at the outset is that there are, and have been, a large number of them. This goes back much further than the hype cycle we have seen play out since the public launch of ChatGPT on 30 November 2023.
On 30 November 2022, the world was introduced to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) AI, initially intended as a “research preview” to seek feedback from the public....
If you ask ten proptech venture capitalists (VCs) where the portmanteau “proptech” came from, you’ll get ten claimants. The trusty ol’ Wayback Machine from Internet Archive shows “PropTech” on the homepage of VCs as far back as October 2014, a time when terms like “CRETech” and “RETech” were also in circulation.
If you Google “proptech funding 2023”, you’ll find a series of search results gesturing to the drying up of venture funding over the year, particularly for those who are yet to turn a profit.