Tag: Transforming

• Tech startups beg real-estate firms to adopt their products for homes, offices, or construction.
• Real estate tech — an industry colloquially known as proptech — is booming with record investment. 
• A new tracker ranks innovations from virtual reality to new building materials. Here are the top 10.
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Proptech companies — which create products that transform or streamline the traditionally slow-moving real estate and construction industries — are booming.

Funding proptech firms raised soared to a record high of $9.7 billion in the first half of 2021, according to JLL research. The pandemic