15 October 2016 – by Emily Wright

“The idea that property never innovates, never adopts and never embraces new tech is entirely false. You want to know the real reason the industry has this reputation? No one has developed technology that really inspires the real estate sector yet. Now that’s finally changing.”

Brandon Weber is everything you might expect of an American tech star in London. Fast-talking, razor-sharp and with an insatiable commitment to all things software – we are talking about a man sporting a pair of cloud computing branded socks.

But the 35-year-old chief executive of Hightower, a cloud-based leasing portfolio management company, has no intention of expanding his three-year-old business “facelessly” across the globe.

“We are not some bodiless vendor selling technology from somewhere in the US,” says Weber, sitting in his WeWork Soho offices following the Hightower UK launch last month.

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