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How to get lifts safe and post-corona ready With the Corona-thread apparent in our daily lives, a lot of buildings were impacted. Their capacity was directly limited particularly due to the lift being the bottleneck. Under the current and foreseeable circumstances...

1. What is Ubiqisense? UbiqiSense is a Danish tech company whose ambition is to disrupt the building sector with a new, vision-based occupancy sensor that detects, counts and tracks people and objects. By providing reliable and actionable insights on behavioral...

REbuild from Facilio is the result of a collaborative effort with the real estate industry to rethink property operations for the post pandemic world. REbuild equips owners and operators to smoothly transition property operations to the new guidelines, operate systems...

All around the globe lockdowns are starting to ease and societies are slowly transitioning back to a more ‘normal’ reality. Retailers, hairdressers and dentists are opening their doors again and there is a notable increase in cars on the highway, strollers in the city...

Toolbox Group founder and CEO Michelle Buxton has announced Ed Cooke, former Revo CEO, as their new Global Growth Director. Cooke, who takes up the newly created role with the company on 5 May 2020, has been brought in specifically to lead the continued strategic...

An invisible enemy has suddenly turned vibrant cities into ghost towns, toilet paper into the most valuable commodity and all of us into virologists. While we are still trying to figure out how this crisis is going to affect us, the important thing is to stick...

PropTech1, a Berlin-based venture capital fund focusing on technological solutions for real-estate innovation, just released its “European PropTech Trends 2020” report showing that - PropTech-wise - things are going well for the continent. Read on for the report's key...

Have you marked Tuesday 12 May in your agenda yet? Because on that day the sixth edition of Global PropTech Online, with as theme ‘Plan & Build + Manage & Operate’, will take place. During this online event, real estate professionals from all over the globe...

At a special innovation event hosted at our new ConTech & PropTech Clubhouse, 40 innovators from corporate firms and technology companies came together to share their knowledge on technology, open innovation and digitisation within the construction and real estate...

Are you ready for the next Global PropTech Leaders event? During the second day of MIPIM in Cannes, on Wednesdy 11 February between 10:30 and 12:00 at the Holland Metrople Pavilion, the seventh edition of this exclusive PropTech event will take place. We’ve asked Coen...

Peer Group Meeting #85 | "Data certainly does not always have value," begins the meeting. "It depends on what you do with it." But how exactly do you tackle this process of value creation? We have mapped out the most important learnings of the Peer Group Meeting for...

On Tuesday 11 February 2020, Global PropTech Online #5 will take place. We are happy to introduce you to our first eight speakers: Chungha Cha, Helen Lam, Wilco Leenslag, Olga Nachaeva, Chen Lou, Alice Guo, Anthony Liu, and Myriam Tena Costa. Underneath you can...

During the NY Real Estate Tech Week 2019, we interviewed Travis Barrington, Co-Founder and CEO of Propmodo during their 'Building the Future' event at the Times Centre. Propmodo is an American initiative that brings you news, research, magazine and analysis on...

During the NY Real Estate Tech Week 2019, we interviewed Charlie Stephens, Corporate Real Estate Advisor for Cushman & Wakefield and Host of LeadersLive on LinkedIn Live. Charlie gave the participants of the Holland ConTech & PropTech TechTrip to New York City...

During the NY Real Estate Tech Week 2019, we interviewed Ryan Baxter. Ryan is NYC Community Growth Lead for MetaProp NYC, PropTech Advisor to the New York State Energy, Research and Developement Agency (NYSERDA), and Co-Founder of the PropTech Challenge. MetaProp NYC...

Antony Slumbers is an experienced Digital Strategist & Product Leader in the #PropTech space, recognized as an industry ‘Influencer’. On Tuesday 10 December the NSI inspiration session took place, and Antony was there to talk about #SpaceAsAService and why it is...

Peer Group Meeting # 78 | This autumn a diverse group of investors and technology firms met at our offices to discuss what makes a good PropTech investment. Robbert Heekelaar (VP Architecture & Emerging Technologies at Prologis), Daniël Langerveld (Business...

During MIPIM PropTech New York on 12 and 13 November 2019, we interviewed Nick Romito, Founder & CEO of VTS. Founded by real estate professionals who have experienced the challenges facing today's landlords and brokers first-hand, VTS delivers an easy-to-use,...

During MIPIM PropTech New York on 12 and 13 November 2019, we interviewed Brad Greiwe, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Fifth Wall. Fifth Wall is the largest venture capital firm focused on technologies for the global real estate industry (property technology or...

Peer Group Meeting # 86 | As a company, are you going from the pilot to the rollout phase? Then you would do well not to let the innovation process be led by a senior from your own organization. Surprised by this? It was one of the 7 take-aways from a recent Peer...

Global PropTech is delighted to announce our new member SPACEWELL, the workplace management technology and consulting firm from real estate technology giant the Nemetscheck Group. SPACEWELL is a technology and consulting firm, supporting its clients across the globe...

The New York Real Estate Tech Week: the week everybody is looking out for to meet fellow real estate professionals from around the world as well as the best PropTech companies. This week is really all about sharing knowledge about how PropTech is being implemented in...

We are happy to introduce you to our eleven keynote speakers for upcoming Global PropTech Online #4 (Tuesday 17 December between 09:00 and 18:00 Central European Time) about trends to look out for in 2020: Patrick Katabua (Account Director at Cushman & Wakefield),...

For one of Holland ConTech & PropTech's members in the Netherlands - a circular real estate developer & investor - we are looking for innovative tech solutions for care and residential environments.What are we looking for? * Organisations that adhere to the...

There he is: the third issue of Fire Starters by PropertyEU! In this third issue, you can find an interesting article by our founding partner KPMG about whether the real estate sector is riding the innovation wave on page 52-54, an interview with our Founder and CEO...

The real estate sector is responsible for 40% of the total CO2 emissions worldwide...This pinpoints why we drastically need to create a better built environment, in every way possible. For this reason, Global PropTech organizes as many as possible events online. In...

After being the first in the Netherlands to receive the Platinum WELL Core & Shell Certification for its celebrated EDGE Olympic building, EDGE is now also the first in the world to be awarded Platinum WELL Certification through the WELL v2 pilot for its...

With over $1 billion assets under management and more than 50 corporate strategic investors spanning 11 countries, Fifth Wall has assembled the largest consortium of real estate owners to invest in cutting edge startups and transform the global real estate industry....

In this third interview that we shot at MIPIM PropTech in Paris last week: Travis Barrington, Co-founder and CEO of Propmodo, an American media platform that helps its readers understand the changing real estate landscape. Before, Propmodo solely focused on online...

Team Global PropTech is busy preparing the second edition of Global PropTech Online, with as theme Blockchain & AI. This second edition will take place on Tuesday 17 September 2019. We are happy to introduce you to our eight speakers: Carmen Benitez (CEO Fetch...

Besides organizing the successful second edition of Global PropTech Leaders during MIPIM PropTech in Paris last week, we also shot several interviews with speakers and exhibitors.In this second interview that we shot at MIPIM PropTech Paris last week: Roelof Opperman,...

Besides organizing the successful second edition of Global PropTech Leaders during MIPIM PropTech in Paris last week, we also shot several interviews with speakers and exhibitors. In this first video, Business Philosopher Anders Indset about the Q Economy, Leaders of...

We herewith share the fourth edition of KPMG’s Real Estate Innovations Overview. This overview was made in collaboration with Global PropTech and Holland ConTech & PropTech and shows numerous fascinating innovations that originate from all around the world. Find...

Amsterdam, 6 June 2019 - KPMG to sign strategic partnership with Global PropTech. KPMG has become a strategic partner of Global PropTech, the international innovation platform for the real estate and construction industry Global PropTech's mission is to connect...

Amsterdam, 29 May 2019 - WeWork, Spaceti, and VTS become member of the Global PropTech platform. Global PropTech, the first global innovation platform for the construction and real estate sector that was launched on the 13th of March at the MIPIM in Cannes, has...

CANNES, 13 March 2019 – Today - at the international real estate conference MIPIM in Cannes - Wouter Truffino officially launched Global PropTech: the first global innovation platform for the construction and real estate industry. The launch includes Global PropTech...