Plus occupiers up their tech spend and powerful comment in this week’s round-up of EG’s tech news.
In the week we bring the best of EG’s tech and innovation arm Halo into the magazine in the second of our quarterly technology sections, EG has announced the launch of a new building podcast series with guest speakers lined up from Dutch developer EDGE, Google Maps and the Real Estate Data Foundation.
Kicking off this week, the first session will take place at 10am this Thursday 18 June as EDGE’s head of product excellence Sandra Gritti joins me to discuss how the company has built a reputation as being one of real estate’s most data-led developers. She will reveal how it has trialled and tested the right technology, successfully used data to evolve a portfolio to become one of the greenest and smartest in the world, and how the building data can now be used to help create safer, healthier buildings. Read more >>
Listen to the live-stream podcast on Halo or LinkedIn at 10am on Thursday 18 June.
It has also been a week of powerful comment pieces. For anyone who missed this raw account of what it is like to be a black person in real estate from Wiredscore’s Hamish Dupree, read it now >>
A piece from Dror Poleg on urban exclusion addresses some uncomfortable themes but, once again, is a crucial read for anyone in technology or real estate who wants cities, and their suburbs, to be better and more inclusive. Read more >>
For a shot of pure real estate tech content, look no further than Tripty Arya’s analysis of proptech funding in 2020. Is it still a good bet? Read more >>
Also this week, occupiers are upping their tech spend, government has unveiled a new strategy that will see it harness the power of location data in a bid to drive the UK’s future economic growth and recovery, and Savills launches a new remote format for online auctions.
For more of EG’s tech and innovation content visit www.egi.co.uk/halo
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