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Faisal Butt

Faisal Butt, chief executive of Spire Ventures and founder and chairman of Pi Labs

Working environment

Let’s be in teams, not on Teams

There have been many stop-starts, but 15 months on from the first lockdown, the office – a collaborative space for experts to strategise, create and innovate – has finally been placed on the ‘green list‘. From 19 July, technology will help guide us back to a new and upgraded working normality.

Home worker

Proptech is about to come of age

We are almost a year into the global pandemic and offices are largely sat idle and empty. With lockdown now a reality until spring, the question on many industry leaders’ lips is: what does the future hold for commercial offices?

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What does the future of property finance look like?

Looking to the next decade of real estate financing, a number of factors are on the minds of lenders and borrowers including the rise in the volume of debt finance and the impact that technology may play.

Proptech

What can we learn from the Emoov story?

There’s something special about the number 100. In sports, an American football field is 100 yards long. In science, 100 degrees Celsius is the boiling temperature of water. And, in finance, most currencies are divided into 100 sub-units. So, when a start-up I invested in five years ago increases in value by 100 times, it’s a moment worth pausing to write about.