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BOOM raises $7m in Series A funding round
Reading Time: 4 minutesLondon: Phototech startup BOOM has announced that it has closed a $7 million Series A round led by United Ventures to support the firm’s next stage of growth, as it chases a five per cent market share of the £80 billion global digital photography market and build a presence in every country in the world. Founded […]
Frank Salt Real Estate to launch holiday home division
Reading Time: 2 minutesMalta: Maltese real estate firm Frank Salt Real Estate has announced its launch of a holiday home division. The company will be offering properties across popular holiday destinations on the islands of Malta and Gozo. Malta, an island nation with a significant amount of tourism, is being heavily afflicted by the global Covid-19 pandemic. Though […]
Snapshot: urban living – the hospitality and real estate winners and losers
Reading Time: 8 minutesWorldwide: International Hospitality Media CEO Piers Brown provides a snapshot of who will be the hospitality and real estate winners and losers within the urban living space post Covid-19. The Covid-19 humanitarian challenge will have lasting effects on how people stay, live and work in the future. These three themes will be explored by hospitality and real […]
How coronavirus will democratise technology in hospitality and real estate
Reading Time: 3 minutesWorldwide: The coronavirus will not arrest the march of technology within accommodation – it will accelerate it with new use cases and even newer applications. As the battle against Covid-19 intensifies, technology is proving an indispensable weapon in the fight against future pandemics with many successful applications saving lives like Trace Together: the recently launched […]
Expansion plans revealed for Nigerian platform Muster
Reading Time: 2 minutesNigeria: Nigerian shared accommodation platform Muster has revealed its expansion plans to onboard property owners in Ghana. Founded by Ibraheem Babalola and Ugochukwu Okoro in 2017, Muster is similar to Airbnb and the Spanish rental service Badi. It currently focuses on locations in Lagos and Abuja. Properties are listed from third-party owners and undergo a quality control […]
Stessa brings out features to help rental property investors
Reading Time: 2 minutesSan Francisco: Software company Stessa, a portfolio tracking platform for rental property investors, has brought out a suite of features to help owners manage their portfolio in one place. The platform has undergone significant growth in the last year, and individual investors now rely on Stessa to gain visibility into more than $25 billion in […]
HDRsoft releases Photomatix Real Estate Camera app
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: HDRsoft has launched its Photomatix Real Estate Camera iPhone app which aims to provide solutions to technical challenges in real estate photography. As a result, both do-it-yourself real estate agents and vacation rental property owners with iPhones will be able to use the app to produce the best possible photographs to promote their properties. […]