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Real Estate Service Firms Continue to Invest in Smart Building Tech in 2022
June 27th, 2022Global Digital Workplace Market Consolidation Trend Intensifies
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By Standardizing Climate Change Disclosures We Can Drive Greener Investment
Today, April 22nd, marks Earth Day, now widely recognized as the largest secular observance in the world. Since 1970, Earth Day has brought together a global community that has grown to over a billion people who use the date as a day of action to change human behavior and drive global, national, and local policy […]
The State of SPACs in the Smart Building & PropTech Space
In this Research Note, we examine companies in the proptech and smart buildings space which have opted for a SPAC route to become publicly listed in 2021 and 2022 to date, based on their annual reports, investor presentations, our M&A transactions database and analysis of previous deals. SPAC acquisitions accounted for 11 completed transactions in the smart […]
Commercial Real Estate & the Sharing Economy
The largest hotel company in the world doesn’t own a single bed. The largest taxi company in the world does not own a fleet of vehicles. And, the largest content provider in the world does not make content. AirBnB, Uber, and YouTube have all become the leaders in their industry by creating platforms for a […]
Corporate VC Accounted for 38% of Q1 Investments in the Smart Buildings Space
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Corporate venture capital continues to play an important role in funding innovations in the smart building space. The major incumbents providing building technologies and real estate services in commercial and industrial facilities are facing competitive pressure from a wave of smart building startups, […]
Hub & Spoke Workplaces: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly
It is over six months since we published our March 19th article — COVID-19, the World’s Biggest Remote Working Experiment is Underway — and the workplace is still in flux. Around the world, companies have one eye on bringing employees back to the office and the other on the potential of distributed workforces in the […]
Market Fragmentation & the “Uber-ization” of Facilities Management – Charles Reed Anderson
The world of proptech, smart buildings, and the Internet of Things (IoT) is a dynamic place as these overlapping technologies find their feet in this 4th industrial revolution. It pays to know someone “in the know,” so this week Memoori spoke to IoT & proptech industry thought leader Charles Reed Anderson. Charles’ Singapore-based company, CRA […]
On-Demand Service Platforms Disrupt the Facilities Management Sector
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. Traditional outsourced facilities management business is being disrupted through the emerging on-demand services model, reflecting the fact that the way people search for and buy services and communicate with suppliers is changing. The new model is typified by online service platforms for digital […]
Real Estate Developers Should Eye Vertical Diversification into Facilities Management
Real estate developers buy land and create facilities to match the needs of their prospective clients. Once construction is completed, the property is sold, leased, or rented, and the developer’s focus moves to the next project. This is the real estate development business and it has made many people very rich. “Ninety percent of all […]