If you've been watching Dubai property headlines lately and wondering what's actually happening on the ground, our latest research has some answers. 85% of landlords are not considering selling despite weeks of geopolitical uncertainty. The 5% inventory uptick that looks concerning at first glance turns out to be mostly recycled supply, properties that were already listed and failed to find a buyer, not a new wave of exits. The more interesting shift is in buyer behavior. Around 63% of recent transactions are off-plan, with investors deliberately targeting 2027+ handovers to wait out near-term operating conditions. That's a calculated move rather then a loss of confidence. Where we see real pressure is in short-term rentals, where about 5% of landlords are considering selling at discounted levels. For the rest of the market, performance is becoming increasingly asset-specific. If you're not paying attention to how your unit stacks up against nearby supply, you'll start to feel it. Full breakdown is in Gulf News article, and more coverage on our latest report can be found in the comments below. https://lnkd.in/dPqHtb59
Smart Bricks
التكنولوجيا والمعلومات والإنترنت
Agentic AI for Global Real Estate Investing.
نبذة عنا
Smart Bricks is building the world’s first agentic AI real estate investment platform. We empower global investors to discover, analyze, and transact properties with speed, intelligence, and confidence. Our proprietary AI stack automates deal sourcing, valuation, and decision-making - bringing institutional-grade capabilities to individual investors and family offices. Backed by top-tier investors and founded by some of the brightest minds from BCG, McKinsey, Blackstone, and Goldman Sachs. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Techstars, 500 Global, Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Harvard Business School, and strategic angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind. We operate across the UK, the US, and the UAE. Global rollout underway. Named by TechCrunch as one of the Top 200 startups globally.
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https://www.smart-bricks.com/
رابط خارجي لـ Smart Bricks
- المجال المهني
- التكنولوجيا والمعلومات والإنترنت
- حجم الشركة
- ١١- ٥٠ موظف
- المقر الرئيسي
- San Francisco
- النوع
- شركة يملكها عدد قليل من الأشخاص
- تم التأسيس
- 2024
المواقع الجغرافية
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رئيسي
احصل على اتجاهات السير
San Francisco ، US
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احصل على اتجاهات السير
London، GB
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احصل على اتجاهات السير
Dubai، AE
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احصل على اتجاهات السير
New York، US
موظفين في Smart Bricks
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Techstars portfolio companies secured victories in four of the nine categories at SXSW Pitch! 🏆 Can we get a round of applause for Surgicure Technologies, Inc., AlterEcho (Techstars '25), Smart Bricks, and Sotira?! 👏 🩺 Surgicure Technology (Techstars 2024), founded by Irena King, PhD, is a medical device company committed to improving patient care through innovative solutions. Congratulations on winning on the Healthcare, AssistiveTech & BioTech category! 🤖 AlterEcho (Techstars 2025), founded by Søren Myhre Voss and Marco Molinari, is a robotics embodiment platform for life sciences. Congratulations on winning in the Intelligent Systems, Robotics, & Multisensory Technology category! 🌇 Smart Bricks (Techstars 2025), founded by Mohamed Mohamed, is building the world’s first agentic AI real estate investment platform. Congratulations on winning in the Smart Data, Security, and Fintech category! 💰 Sotira (Techstars 2023), founded by Amrita Bhasin and Gary Kwong, enables instant commerce companies to offload and monetize excess inventory. Congratulations on winning in the Sustainability, AgTech & Food category and being awarded "Best In Show" overall! Read more: https://lnkd.in/gtMeGV5W Martin Olczyk | Andres Barreto | Kerty Levy | Malte Witt Techstars NYC | Techstars Boston Accelerator | Techstars Boulder
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We just won SXSW. Smart Bricks has been named a winner at SXSW Pitch 2026 — and we had the privilege of receiving the award from Garry Tan (CEO of Y Combinator). SXSW is one of the most competitive startup stages in the world, bringing together founders pushing the edge of what’s possible across industries. This win is a strong signal of where things are heading: Real estate investing is being rebuilt from the ground up. From fragmented data and slow decisions → to AI-native intelligence and real-time execution. That’s what we’re building at Smart Bricks. Proud of the team. Grateful to everyone supporting us. We’re just getting started.
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Periods of geopolitical uncertainty generate significant noise across real estate markets. What matters for investors is understanding the precise mechanisms through which these shocks convert into changes at the market fundamentals level. Our latest report "The Real Estate Investor's Handbook: What Geopolitical Uncertainty Means for Your Portfolio" provides a structured analytical framework for property investors navigating periods of elevated volatility. The research identifies five core transmission channels: - Market depth: Buyer activity can slow abruptly, even when asking prices stay elevated - Occupier demand: Dubai's DLD rent index and renewal framework dampens shock repricing and supports more predictable income during volatile periods - Development pipelines: With over 160,000 units registered for 2026 delivery, supply concentration in specific micro-markets becomes a direct vacancy risk factor - Capital market conditions: UAE mortgage rates track EIBOR closely, meaning financing access can shift faster than geopolitical headlines - Investor participation: Dubai's investor-heavy transaction base amplifies both upside and downside sentiment moves, making this a leading rather than lagging indicator The report also outlines eight signals we will be tracking over the next 30 days. If you would like to learn more you can read the full document here: https://lnkd.in/dh3x8Vyh
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Excited to share that Smart Bricks has been selected as a finalist at SXSW Pitch in the Smart Data, Security & FinTech category. I’ll be in Austin March 13–15, presenting what we’re building at Smart Bricks — an AI-powered intelligence platform helping investors discover, analyze, and execute real estate investments faster than ever. Honored to be pitching alongside some incredible companies and looking forward to meeting founders, investors, and builders at SXSW. If you're around Austin during the conference, let’s connect!
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Dubai-based frontier artificial intelligence (AI) lab Smart Bricks has raised US$5 million in a pre-seed round led by Silicon Valley-based venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from funds and angel investors across the US, Europe, and the Middle East. Founded by Mohamed Mohamed in the UAE in 2024, Smart Bricks is building an end-to-end platform for real estate investing serving both individual and institutional capital. In an interview with Inc. Arabia, Mohamed said that the idea for Smart Bricks emerged from his years of working with institutional real estate investors, where he saw that advanced tools used to manage billion-dollar portfolios were embedded in fund-specific legacy systems and unavailable to individual investors, who continued to rely on spreadsheets, static listings, and subjective judgment. As such, he built Smart Bricks to provide both retail and institutional investors with the opportunities, intelligence, and execution workflows typically provided by leading private equity or institutional real estate funds. “Our vision is to redefine and set the global standard for real estate investing where anyone can invest with the same confidence as the largest institutions," Mohamed told Inc. Arabia. "Our mission is to make real estate investing simple, smart, and more profitable. While most individual investors rely on a limited set of data points, the Smart Bricks system evaluates live inventory across target markets by synthesizing over 1,000 data points, including macroeconomic dynamics, supply formation, infrastructure investment, demographic shifts, and market sentiment. This broader analytical frame allows assets to be assessed in context, rather than through the limited set of indicators typically available to individual investors.” Learn more about Smart Bricks' offering in our full interview with Mohamed here: https://lnkd.in/dPtfztmk #artificialintelligence #AI #innovation #tech #investment #entrepreneurs #startups #UAE #Dubai #US #SiliconValley #business #leaders #realestate
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We’re proud to announce our $5M pre-seed round, led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z speedrun) From day one, our ambition has been to re-architect how real estate is discovered, underwritten, and transacted across global markets. As capital, talent, and opportunity have become increasingly cross-border, the infrastructure supporting real estate investing has remained fragmented and inefficient. We are building the AI-native operating system for global real estate investing. Our platform ingests live market data, continuously underwrites opportunities, and orchestrates execution end to end, compressing processes that historically required months of coordination into minutes. The result is institutional-grade intelligence that is programmable, scalable, and accessible to investors across borders Our pre-seed round was led by Andreessen Horowitz,with backing from Harvard Business School Alumni Angels, Techstars, 500 Global, Cornerstone VC, South Loop Ventures, Cento Ventures, Anker Capital AG, and Tomahawk.VC, alongside angel investors from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Airbnb, and Blackstone. We started in Dubai and are building for global markets including London, New York, Miami, Riyadh, and beyond, establishing the infrastructure layer required for modern, globally coordinated real estate investing. Real estate will become AI-native, and we are building the infrastructure that will power that shift. https://lnkd.in/dkrGDRVZ
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Smart Bricks is an AI-powered proptech that helps investors find high-quality real estate investments
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Today, we’re publicly launching Smart Bricks and announcing a $5M pre-seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z speedrun), to build the agentic AI infrastructure layer for global real-estate investing. Real estate is the largest asset class in the world, over $300 trillion in value, yet it remains the last major asset class without a native AI stack. Investment decisions are still driven by PDFs, spreadsheets, and intuition. Despite millions of available data sources and thousands of meaningful variables per asset, real-estate investing remains slow, opaque, and manual. Transactions take months. Risk is difficult to quantify. Institutions solve this with proprietary data, in-house AI teams, and integrated execution systems. Everyone else operates with partial information and manual workflows. We’re building an AI-native operating system for real-estate investing, an agentic layer that continuously ingests data, reasons across markets, underwrites assets, and executes transactions autonomously. Our platform is built for real-time decisioning, not static analysis, and is purpose-built for real-estate execution: ✅ Proprietary agentic AI models purpose-built for real estate ✅ Integration of millions of live proprietary and public data sources, reasoning across billions of data points in real time ✅ Autonomous AI agents that source, underwrite, score, and match assets to investors in seconds What traditionally takes six months now happens in minutes. The result is institutional-grade intelligence and execution, without needing to assemble in-house AI teams or navigate fragmented systems. We started the business in Dubai because it’s one of the fastest-growing and highest-return real-estate markets in the world. Today, we’re already building for global markets, including London, New York, Miami, Riyadh, and beyond. This was never meant to be a local proptech story. It’s global infrastructure. Before founding Smart Bricks, my background spanned Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Company, and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), working at the intersection of capital allocation, strategy, and technology. The same conclusion kept coming up. Real estate is ready for a new operating system. Thank you to the people who made this possible. Our investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Harvard Business School, Techstars, 500 Global, Cornerstone VC, South Loop Ventures, Cento Ventures, Anker Capital AG, and Tomahawk.VC for the conviction and partnership. The angel investors from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Airbnb, and Blackstone for backing this vision early. And most importantly, the team at Smart Bricks. You’re building something genuinely hard, ambitious, and meaningful. This only works because of you. This is only the beginning. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gBsGvF8g Visit: https://lnkd.in/g9t9d8BH — Mohamed Mohamed Founder & CEO, Smart Bricks
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Investing in real estate often means dealing with fragmented data, disconnected platforms, and slow decision cycles. Smart Bricks brings market data, investment opportunities, and analytical tools together in one platform. Allowing investors to evaluate options, compare opportunities, and act with confidence, all from a single interface. 👉 If you’re looking for a more structured and efficient way to invest in real estate, visit our platform to learn more.
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