Why Realpage Bought Cherre
Realpage is betting that decades of accumulated data can become an AI-era advantage
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Real estate technology and proptech innovation, covering the software, hardware and data changing how buildings get built, financed and run. Thesis Driven tracks systems of record and property management platforms, point solution consolidation, integration and data infrastructure, marketplaces, and how technology shifts cost advantage between operators.
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Why Realpage Bought Cherre
Realpage is betting that decades of accumulated data can become an AI-era advantage
Who is Investing in Real Estate Tech? 2026 Edition
Our annual list of firms actively investing in real estate technology companies
The Marketplaces of the Future
Predicting six new real estate marketplaces to rise over the next decade
The 60% Problem: Why Commercial Buildings Leave $11 Billion on the Table
The gap between finding an energy inefficiency and fixing it has cost building owners for over a decade. Agentic AI is the first technology that can close it.
Why AI Property Management Software Keeps Failing
One founder's account of the structural reasons autonomous AI property management SaaS gets crushed, and what the right model actually looks like
Deep Dive: Outcome
A new approach replaces manual real estate workflows with AI-driven systems built around the operator’s own data
Deep Dive: WithCoverage
Insurance costs are rising across real estate portfolios, and one company is building a new model to manage them
Tenants Are Hacking the Building
Multifamily residents are using consumer AI and open tools to work around building systems and regain control of how their apartments operate
Computer Vision is Coming, and It’s Gonna Be Weird
Move over, LLMs. Computer vision is going to hit real estate even harder.