PropTech - the buzzword of 2018 seems to be staying with us in 2019 as well. This red-hot portmanteau, along the lines of FinTech, was created by journalists some time last year from the words property and technology, and refers to every technological or financial innovation that affects the development, management, selling, buying, or renting of real estate. What are the Driving Forces behind PropTech?Various factors may affect what sort of innovations we may expect in the PropTech field in the near future. In this article, we look over 4 key factors: software, hardware, social changes, and financial innovations. Software development in recent years gave us voice interfaces, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technology. Recent PropTech-related hardware innovations are intelligent sensors and drone technology. Rapid social changes, especially the new ways of working and vacationing, also heavily influence PropTech innovations. Lastly, since real estate represents immense financial value, we must consider financial innovations as a contributing factor for PropTech.We can hardly cover every recent or forthcoming development in the PropTech field in a single blog post. Instead, this article aims to present a selection of remarkable innovations to demonstrate how PropTech innovations are expected to change our everyday life in the very near future - or even today. Office Hunt: Flexibility meets Shared EconomyOur long-established concepts of work and workplace have gone through an enormous transformation over the last few years. A number of people work in trendy jobs that did not even exist 10 or 15 years ago. Likewise, we cannot even imagine the jobs, competencies, or trainings of the future.This fast-paced transformation is simultaneously influenced by technical as well as social factors. The workplaces of tomorrow must provide a very high level of communication, cooperation, and flexibility besides comfort and coziness, especially when it comes to time scheduling. Let’s see some services that already reflect and recognize these trends.Co-working spaces have become so popular in recent years that they don’t need an introduction. In fact, one can hardly imagine a prosperous city anywhere in the world without one or two cozy shared workplaces. What’s more, thanks to new special listing sites targeting to this special segment, co-working spaces have become a special real estate listing category in their own right. Besides global players such as WeWork, one can find an example in India (Awfis), and in France (Morning Coworking). 
French listing site Morning Coworking offers several cozy shared offices locations throughout Paris
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