Legal & General has committed two million sq ft of its commercial real estate portfolio and over 1,000 residential homes to WiredScore certification (Wired Certification), an international digital connectivity rating scheme evidencing the speed and reliability of a building’s digital connectivity. 

Cushman & Wakefield is teaming up with Matterport, a specialist in spatial data capture, to offer clients a turnkey solution to scan commercial properties in 3D across their footprint.

MRI Software, a global leader in real estate software solutions, announces that CLS Holdings (CLS), a FTSE 250 commercial property investment company, is to deploy MRI Software's property management technology platform across its operations in the UK, Germany and France.

CC Land has appointed Cureoscity, a specialist in the connectivity of places, to create a new digital customer experience platform for The Leadenhall Building which will support the reoccupation of the office block when the lockdown restrictions are eased.

OfficeSpace Software, a specialist in workplace management software, has launched Distancing Planner, a new tool to help organisations incorporate physical distancing into their back-to-office strategy. 

A new automated lettings platform has been launched aiming to help the institutional investors and large-scale corporate landlords backing Britain’s burgeoning build-to-rent sector through faster lease-up rates and better insight into the performance of their portfolios. 

In a recent white paper entitled Evolution in Asset Management, SEI pointed out that 70 per cent of US fund managers are currently looking to deploy advanced analytics in the front-office. The field of data science and machine learning-based data analysis is helping to transform how fund managers think about data to gain a competitive edge. 

Toolbox Group founder and CEO Michelle Buxton has announced Ed Cooke, former Revo CEO, as the firm's new Global Growth Director.

Drooms, a provider of virtual data rooms (VDRs), and realxdata, one of Germany's leading technology companies specialised in the analysis of real estate data, have announced a partnership aiming to improve the efficiency of clients’ real estate transactions.

Nearly two-in-three (65 per cent) real estate professionals have cited Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) as the feature they would most like to see incorporated into the tech they use, ahead of security (29 per cent) and blockchain (15 per cent).