Estate Agency Leads to Be Contacted by AI Voice System
Estate‑Agents.ai has launched an AI‑driven prospecting platform that uses synthetic voice calls to reach homeowners in an agency’s existing database. The system engages former enquiries and dormant contacts in natural‑language conversations to gauge intent to sell within six months. Responses are filtered and only qualified valuation leads are forwarded to branch teams, automating what agents typically handle manually. The launch reflects the broader adoption of AI tools in real‑estate lead generation and customer outreach.
New WhatsApp AI Assistant for Estate Agents Launches
Veyco has introduced Veyco Chat, an AI‑driven WhatsApp tool that handles routine client queries throughout property transactions. The service is already live with a pilot group of estate agents and law firms, covering the period from offer acceptance to completion....
NeoCon 2026 Programming Registration Opens, Theme Is ‘Where Design Connects’
NeoCon has opened registration for its 57th edition, scheduled for June 7‑10, 2026 in Chicago, with a preview day on June 7. The show’s theme, “Where Design Connects,” will showcase a dense lineup of educational experiences that examine how AI, cultural shifts, and...
Enterprise AI Cultivates Development Application for Blacktown City Council
Blacktown City Council has deployed Enterprise AI’s Development Application Information System (DAISY), an AI‑driven platform built on Microsoft Azure, to streamline its planning workflow. The solution combines DAISY Assist, which offers site‑specific guidance to applicants, and DAISY Assess, which automates...
CRE Title Firms Turn To AI To Fill Talent Gaps, Speed Transactions
The title insurance sector, responsible for clearing legal and financial clouds in real‑estate deals, is confronting a shrinking, aging workforce that fell 11% from its 2021 peak. To bridge the talent gap and accelerate transactions, firms are deploying artificial intelligence...
The MLS/CLAW Partners with Compass, Revises Its IDX Policy
The MLS/CLAW announced a new MLS Exclusive (MX) listing status that lets agents share properties only within the MLS, keeping price history and days‑on‑market hidden until sale. It also revised its IDX policy to prohibit exclusion of listings based on...
Former Newrez CIO Takes Same Position at Union Home Mortgage
Union Home Mortgage announced the appointment of Dino Lack as its new chief information officer. Lack brings 21 years of mortgage‑technology experience, previously serving as CIO at Newrez and senior product roles at Caliber Home Loans and LoanDepot. He will...
How 3 Builders Are Using AI for Safety
Construction firms are moving AI from back‑office tasks to frontline safety. Skanska launched a Safety Sidekick that queries its EHS manuals and OSHA standards, while Turner Construction’s SafeT Coach has already handled over 25,000 safety‑related queries. Balfour Beatty pairs Caterpillar’s...
The Newest Member of Your Facilities Team? Your Building.
Artificial intelligence is turning buildings into proactive members of facilities teams by interpreting sensor data in real time. Seventy‑five percent of facilities managers say AI will boost efficiency, and early pilots are already delivering measurable savings, such as Standard Chartered’s...
ServiceNow Knowledge 2026 - Vantage Towers Adopts ServiceNow to Manage 55,000 Landlords and Redefines How It Measures Success
Vantage Towers, which operates 88,000 telecom sites across Europe, has migrated its 55,000 landlord relationships onto ServiceNow’s Lyra platform. The new system consolidates multiple communication channels and pulls SAP and asset data into a single interface, cutting resolution times from...
Communities Call for Transparency in AI Data Center Deals
Developers are racing to build AI‑focused data centers, but community opposition has blocked or delayed $64 billion in projects between March 2024 and March 2025. Activist groups now exist in 24 states, and high‑profile sites such as a proposed $4 billion AWS campus in...
Presence Platform Unifies Agent Tools; Coaching Integration Launches
Luxury Presence unveiled the Presence Platform, an AI‑powered suite that consolidates CRM, social media, listing ads and a homeowner dashboard for real‑estate agents, following a $37 million funding round to expand its AI capabilities. Inside Real Estate partnered with Buffini to...
Local Ticketless Parking App Gains Traction
Admyt, a Cape Town‑based digital parking platform, now supports over 600,000 registered vehicles across roughly 90 South African malls and commercial properties. Its licence‑plate‑recognition system, powered by more than 1,200 cameras, processes over 12 million plate reads each month, eliminating tickets...
Which Construction Technology Investments Actually Move the Needle on Profitability?
Construction firms must separate profit‑driving technologies from hype to avoid wasted spend. Proven tools—Building Information Modeling, reality‑capture combined with machine learning, and centralized project‑management software—deliver measurable ROI by cutting rework, downtime, and administrative errors. Overhyped solutions such as the metaverse,...
Hammerson Teams up with Waymap to Transform Central Birmingham Accessibility
Hammerson has teamed with Waymap to launch an indoor navigation app across the Bullring and Grand Central complex in Birmingham, covering more than 1.5 million square feet of retail space. The GPS‑free solution provides audio and on‑screen directions, allowing users to...
Zillow, Realtor.com Joining Forces on ‘Preview’ Listings
Zillow and Realtor.com announced a partnership to display Zillow’s “Preview” pre‑market listings on Realtor.com. The collaboration follows Zillow’s March launch of Preview, which now includes more than 60 brokerages. Together the two portals reach roughly 75% of U.S. home shoppers,...
Schneider, AMS Partnership Aims for Faster, More Impactful Microgrid Deployment
Schneider Electric is expanding its partnership with American Microgrid Solutions (AMS) to accelerate end‑to‑end microgrid deployments using the EcoStruxure Microgrid Flex platform. The collaboration targets sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing, multifamily housing, utilities and public facilities, offering integrated design, commissioning...
Renewables Firm Rivington Energy Plans Lincolnshire Solar-Powered Data Centre
Rivington Energy, a UK renewables specialist, announced plans to develop a solar‑powered data centre in Lincolnshire. The facility will generate electricity on‑site from photovoltaic panels and use it to run high‑density computing hardware, aiming to slash the carbon intensity typical...
Chanani Launches New Venture to Develop EV Charging Hubs Across Southern California
Chanani Group has launched CM EV Services to develop electric‑vehicle charging hubs across Southern California. The venture partners with Motive Energy’s Sustainable Solutions division, which will act as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) provider for the initial sites. The first three...
IDeaS Expands Integration with Stayntouch PMS
IDeaS has embedded its Last Room Value (LRV) revenue‑management engine into Stayntouch’s cloud property management system, giving independent and mid‑size hotels automated availability and length‑of‑stay controls. LRV calculates a value‑based rate hurdle for each remaining room and evaluates incoming bookings,...
Webinar: The Pending Data Handover Challenge
A webinar hosted by NCE and eviFile will address the growing challenge of data handover at project completion. New British Standards for data handover are being drafted and will soon be required in government tenders. The session features experts from...
Why Agentic AI Is the Biggest Threat to Legacy Hotel Software Vendors
Vivek Bhogaraju, a private‑equity‑backed hospitality tech advisor, warns that agentic AI is rapidly eroding the relevance of legacy hotel software. Unlike generative AI that merely suggests actions, agentic AI can autonomously execute tasks such as rate shopping, inventory optimization, and...
Driving Sustainable Hotel Operations Through Connected Infrastructure
Hotels are turning to connected infrastructure—mirroring the real‑time data streams of modern cars—to unify property management, energy, and maintenance systems. By integrating PMS, EMS, AI and sensor networks, operators gain a single dashboard that reveals performance, occupancy and equipment health...
Happening This Week at SBC – Partner McKinstry and Seattle Colleges Transform Campuses
Smart Buildings Center highlighted a new case study showing how McKinstry partnered with Seattle Colleges to overhaul campus facilities for greater energy efficiency. The collaboration focuses on meeting Washington’s Clean Buildings Performance Standard while reducing operating costs. Over a decade...
Agentic AI’s Impact on Commercial Real Estate Goes Beyond Time Saved
Agentic AI is dramatically accelerating commercial‑real‑estate underwriting, shrinking a week‑long analysis to roughly 90 minutes plus a brief review. Leni’s system can also extract key terms from three complex retail leases in under seven minutes, turning a half‑day task into...
How Does AI Room Pricing Work for Small Hotels? A Guide to Stop Guessing Your Room Rates - By Femke...
Lighthouse’s AI‑driven Pricing Optimization helps small independent hotels set room rates using real‑time market data. The platform monitors competitor rates, local events, booking pace, occupancy and historical patterns, delivering hourly rate recommendations within user‑defined guardrails. Hotels that adopt the tool...
AI Deepfakes Are Moving Into Commercial Real Estate Operations
Artificial intelligence‑generated deepfakes are amplifying business email compromise schemes, now targeting commercial real‑estate operations. The FBI attributes over $2.9 billion in losses to BEC, and AI voice cloning is making vendor invoices, escrow wires and vacancy transitions vulnerable. Fraudsters start with...
Mortgage Brain Launches AI Charter to Combat Hidden Data Risks in Broker Tech
Mortgage Brain has unveiled its first AI Charter, establishing formal standards for building, governing, and deploying artificial intelligence within the heavily regulated mortgage sector. The charter targets hidden data risks by ensuring client information stays within Mortgage Brain’s own infrastructure...
‘Energy Security’ Drives Schneider Electric Growth: CEO
Schneider Electric posted a record $11.4 billion in first‑quarter 2026 revenue, up 11.2% organically, driven by a surge in data‑center demand and AI‑related projects. The energy‑management segment grew 12.8% year‑over‑year, with North America leading at 15.9% growth, thanks to high‑density server...
The Hidden Cost on Your Budget: Why Inaccurate Asset Data Is Costing You More than You Realize
Facilities leaders face escalating budgets because inaccurate asset data forces reactive maintenance and costly decision‑making. Deloitte research shows teams waste up to 20% of their time searching for information, while the U.S. Department of Energy links poor data to 12‑18%...
Technology Can Help Small Builders to Overcome Current Challenges
Chris Rennie, Buildxact’s chief product officer, warned that Australia’s small‑and‑medium home builders face a paradox of booming demand alongside acute trade shortages, rising fuel costs, heavy regulatory burdens and declining productivity. New‑home starts are at a four‑year high and renovation...
Robots Are Building Clay Homes In Texas Using Dirt From the Ground
A Texas startup near Austin has developed a robotic system that constructs homes from on‑site clay. The robot extracts dirt, mixes it into adobe, and uses a claw and hammer attachment to shape walls, guided by machine‑learning feedback. The pilot...
S. A. Miro, Inc.- Data Centers From a Structural Engineers Perspective
Building Information Modeling (BIM) has become the essential framework for data‑center projects, where mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems dominate design decisions. Structural engineers must adapt framing, columns, and foundations to accommodate dense MEP routing, making coordination a critical constraint....
Mortgage Brokers Embrace AI but Seek Better Tools, Training
Mortgage brokers are rapidly incorporating artificial intelligence into their daily workflows, with 55% using AI regularly and 35% describing themselves as daily users. General‑purpose generative models such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini dominate adoption, while mortgage‑specific AI tools for underwriting...
Apply, Lie, Move In: AI Is Making Rent Fraud Easier
Landlords are facing a surge in AI‑generated rental fraud, with scammers easily producing fake pay stubs, IDs and bank statements. The FBI estimated online real‑estate fraud cost about $275 million in 2025, while each fraudulent application costs roughly $15 K to resolve....
How Brokers Can Win Back AI‑wary Borrowers without Slowing Tech Adoption
Mortgage lenders are racing to embed AI tools that promise faster, cheaper loan processing, but a new Cotality survey reveals borrowers are growing wary of the technology. The study shows a dip in consumer trust, putting pressure on brokers to...
The Digital Walkthrough: What To Look Out for During a Video Inspection
Video walkthroughs have shifted from a niche curiosity to a mainstream tool, with the National Association of Realtors reporting that 5‑7% of homebuyers now close deals based solely on virtual tours. Improved camera quality and pandemic‑driven remote shopping have made...
AMD Signs Additional 25MW Data Center Lease with Riot in Texas
Riot Platforms announced that AMD exercised its option to lease an additional 25 MW at Riot’s Rockdale, Texas campus, bringing AMD’s total contracted capacity to 50 MW. The expansion will be delivered in phases, with the first 25 MW completed by May 2026 and...
Gulf Firms Taranis and EEC Partner to Develop 50MW Data Centers in Saudi Arabia
Dubai‑based Taranis Capital and Riyadh‑based Emaar Executive Company (EEC) have signed an MoU to develop a portfolio of 40‑50 MW carrier‑neutral data center campuses in Saudi Arabia. The Taranis Data Centre Fund is targeting roughly $2 billion of private capital to build...
All Buildings Will Have Behind-the-Meter Power Eventually: Trane CEO
Trane Technologies reported $5 billion in first‑quarter revenue, a 6% year‑over‑year increase, driven by strong growth in its Americas commercial HVAC segment. CEO David Regnery said the company expects behind‑the‑meter power to become standard in all buildings, reducing the typical 30%...
No Sign that AI Is Cooling Leasing Demand: JLL
JLL reported a 7% year‑over‑year increase in North American office leasing volume in Q1, while industrial leasing revenue surged 17% driven by data‑center demand. The firm’s CFO noted that the AI boom has actually boosted leasing activity in coastal markets...
A Blueprint for Successful Solar Canopy Projects
Solar canopies are emerging as a fast‑growing solution for deploying distributed renewable energy on underutilized parking lots. The article outlines five primary structural configurations, from low‑cost T‑structures to long‑span and inverted designs, and stresses the importance of early geotechnical studies,...
Peterson Co. Plots Three-Building Data Center Campus in Leesburg, Virginia
Peterson Companies, through its affiliate Leesburg Gateway, LLC, has filed a permit to build a three‑building, 600,000‑sq‑ft data‑center campus on more than 100 acres in Leesburg, Virginia. The plan includes four additional industrial structures and a 22‑acre public park, but...
Solar-Powered Data Center Campus Proposed in Lincolnshire, UK
Rivington Energy, backed by Federated Hermes, has launched a pre‑application for the Conesby Data Centre Campus in Lincolnshire, UK. The 20‑acre site will host 12,500 sqm of data‑centre space and be powered largely by an on‑site 80‑acre solar farm. Construction could...
Survey: 4 Out of 5 Workplace Leaders Lack Spatial Occupancy Data Needed to Lower Office Costs
Butlr’s new survey of 400 U.S. commercial‑real‑estate and facilities leaders reveals that four out of five lack reliable spatial occupancy data. Only 19% base space‑planning decisions on data, while 36% rely on gut instinct, resulting in heated, unused space and...
Texas Data Centers' Demand for Electricians Is Delaying Housing Construction by 2 Months
Texas’s rapid data‑center expansion is siphoning electricians away from residential projects, forcing home‑builders to postpone construction by up to two months. The state’s pool of roughly 71,000 licensed electricians is being stretched thin as AI‑driven firms allocate 45‑70% of their...
First American Data & Analytics’ FraudGuard® Solution Enhances Warehouse Lending Speed and Confidence in Forta Solutions’ Agility ™ Platform
First American Data & Analytics announced that its FraudGuard® fraud‑detection solution is now integrated into Forta Solutions’ Agility™ warehouse‑lending platform. The embedded tool uses advanced analytics to flag borrower identity fraud, undisclosed liabilities, occupancy misrepresentation and valuation anomalies at the...
Realtracs Opens MLS Service Nationally
Realtracs, Tennessee's largest multiple listing service, announced a nationwide rollout, partnering with Compass International Holdings and United Real Estate to feed listings into its platform. The MLS, which currently supports about 19,000 subscribers across six southeastern states, aims to scale...
A New 3-Way Data Share in the Southeast; 2 MLSs Partner with BPP
Multiple regional MLSs are forming data‑sharing alliances to broaden listing visibility and simplify agent workflows. In the Southeast, FMLS, Greater Chattanooga Realtors and ValleyMLS now share listings across Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. Meanwhile, NorthstarMLS and California’s CREB have teamed with...
Speed to Power: How Developers Are Restructuring for AI Demand
Developers of AI‑driven data centers are abandoning pure scale‑first designs in favor of a "speed to power" approach, prioritizing rapid access to electricity over sheer capacity. With global data‑center electricity demand projected to triple by 2029, grid constraints and interconnection...