Building operational performance is coming under increasing scrutiny from multiple directions. Occupiers are increasingly taking note of a building’s environmental performance when accounting for their scope two and three greenhouse gas emissions; regulators have long threatened increasingly high energy performance standards; and asset owners themselves are under pressure to improve net operating income…

Disruption from robotics will extend far beyond controlled construction environments in the near term, say Dr Qizhou (Leo) Xiong and Luke Graham, partners at Urban Neuron…

AI mania has reached fever pitch. In the early months of 2025, we have witnessed skyrocketing search volumes and user activity for now-familiar tools such as ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity, etc. So, too, are we witnessing skyrocketing “AI anxiety”, as many influential figures herald mass unemployment, post-work civilisation, multi-centenary lifespans and telepathic communication… 

A closer look at UK regional housing data reveals the extent of the supply shortage, highlighting the scope for private sector investment to address the crisis, according to Dr Qizhou (Leo) Xiong and Luke Graham, partners at Urban Neuron…

If we are to maximise every penny spent to reduce the environmental footprint of non-domestic assets between now and 2030 (and beyond), we will need to think beyond the attention-grabbing hero projects…

Something that has attracted a growing proportion of my attention over recent years has been the role of innovation in reversing the fortunes of property types that had fallen victim to technological disruption over recent cycles. My favourite example is retail. 

Knowing where relevant entrepreneurs are converging is a handy tool for real estate developers and investors that value the medium-to-long-term outlook of the cities within which they operate…

Adding further complexity to the trend for the conventional office lease market is a longer-term downward trend in employee headcount, while the total count of businesses grows. The UK ONS reports the count of SMEs and sole traders has markedly outperformed…

This population growth is largely expected to come from natural increase in Africa and South Asia, offsetting natural decrease in historically higher-income areas in Europe and North America. The global population of 2050 and beyond is also expected to be remarkably older on average…

A common challenge real estate faces in adopting proptech is cost perceptions, particularly in these economically uncertain times. Real estate industry sensitivity to cost serves as a strong differentiator for many environmentally oriented proptechs, as they usually reduce resource consumption, whether it be energy, plant machinery, construction materials, water, labor or others.

Although ChatGPT popularised generative AI, it once again wasn’t the first in this space. Chatbots, for instance, offer a comparable use case to the one initially offered by ChatGPT. In the case of a chatbot, the corpus of data could be a utility company’s internal data, which allows for AI-enabled customer support and decision making…

With the advent of ESG 2.0 and accompanying regulations, it seems like an increasing number of sustainability variables, once measurable and comparable, will be accounted for in valuations…

CRE in the UK finds itself in a quagmire. On the one hand, sub-EPC B assets will be unable to be leased from 2030 (and finance is already becoming harder to come by). On the other hand, it appears that capital expenditures to improve an asset’s EPC rating might not actually improve its energy performance or environmental footprint…

Estimates of how long it takes to buy a home in the UK vary widely. A general consensus seems to exist around three-to-six months which relegates a needlessly excessive percentage of the country’s housing stock to a state of occupier purgatory…

Earlier this month, RentCafe reported their analysis of IPUMS data indicating Millennials’ landmark transition from majority renters to majority homeowners in the United States in 2022…

Other platforms haven’t been as fortunate, with an expanding graveyard of fractionalisation initiatives which didn’t quite make it before their well of funding ran dry. This prompted some months of research, culminating in a white paper…

Mostly confined to cyberpunk and tech circles prior to 2021, the metaverse has since experienced breakout attention and entered the common vernacular. Not all of this has been welcomed…

As our portfolio comprises early-stage PropTech start-ups recently graduated from our accelerator and growth programmes, as well as maturing scale-ups attaining Series C investment rounds and/or M&A, we have been able to observe the varying rates of adoption throughout a product’s lifecycle.

With 2021 seeing record level property prices and borrowing, the usual suspects will no doubt shift the conversation to a housing bubble sooner or later. Today, we will unpack some of the most common claims surrounding the question of whether Australia is in the midst of a housing bubble.

Now that the virus appears to be on the back foot, global communities are preparing for a post-pandemic economic rebuild. A number of property commentators have recently emerged from the woodwork to gloat about how incorrect the doomsayers were.