REALLY REAL ESTATE
A real exploration of the issues, challenges, opportunities and realities - both legacy & new - that are & affect real estate in today's intra-pandemic world!
Collection by Shawn Venasse
thoughtleadership.rbc.com
Canada's housing market slowed down in June but still strong
4 min · · While bidding wars are reportedly attracting fewer participants in some parts of the country, competition between Canadian home buyers remains fierce. · Shared by 3, including Shawn Venasse
AndreaVahl
Changes to Facebook Ads for Real Estate, Credit, or Employment
5 min · · Find out the recent changes to Facebook Ads for Real Estate or Housing ads, Employment, or Credit businesses and what you need to do as a marketer. · Shared by 11, including Jon Loomer, Susan Gilbert, Shawn Venasse
World Economic Forum
Understanding the Commercial Real Estate Investment Ecosyste…
Summary · · Commercial real estate is a critical part of an economy, and shifts in its valuations can have outsized impacts on business cycles. The World Economic Forum has created an early warning system to predict declines in the prices of commercial properties in 10 US cities. The model, once rolled out to more markets and assets, could help participants better manage their investments and mitigate losses associated with a downturn. This informative report provides a good overview of the drivers of the US commercial property market. getAbstract recommends this detailed description of an innovative forecasting tool to policy makers and real estate investors. · Shared by 5, including Shawn Venasse, getAbstract
Forbes
How Will Artificial Intelligence Change The Commercial Real Estate Industry?
3 min · · The time for digital transformation of the real estate industry is here. · Shared by 20, including Iain Brown, PhD, Shawn Venasse, Terence Mills
The Washington Post
Perspective | Trump lied to me about his wealth to get onto the Forbes 400. Here are the tapes.
16+ min · · Posing as ‘John Barron,’ he claimed he owned most of his father’s real estate empire. · Shared by 76, including Shawn Venasse, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Luca Like, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Thomas Power, Mark Suster, Michael Seemann, Matti Heubner, W. David Stephenson, Valiskster, Maryn McKenna, Xeorge Xonway, Scott Monty
Quartz
People won’t stop staring at their phones, so a Dutch town put traffic lights on the ground
1 min · · They'd probably be useful in a lot of big cities. · Shared by 89, including Florian Hanke 🍎, George M 🇪🇺, Jakub Ferenc, Yannick Laclau, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Shawn Venasse, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Kris Fannin, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, David Cant ~👷🏻♂️, Thomas Power, Earnest Jet
TechCrunch
Toyota is building a tiny utopian prototype city filled with people, robots and AI
· Toyota researches and tests robotics, material science, automated driving and alternative fuel technology in labs all around the world. Now the automaker is trying a new and far more ambitious project: build a prototype city on a 175-acre site at the foot of Mount Fugi in Japan, where people will live and work amongst all […] · Shared by 91, including Katja Evertz, Desmond Williams, Sunnie J. Groeneveld, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Thomas Billeter, Shawn Venasse, Rick Powell, ExApologist, Rick King, Tauno
Fast Company
Sorry, your data can still be identified even if it’s anonymized
1 min · · Urban planners and researchers at MIT found that it’s shockingly easy to “reidentify” the anonymous data that people generate all day, every day in cities. · Shared by 89, including Esther Schindler, Shawn Venasse, fernand0, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Jameson Lopp, Ines Bieler, Leni "Lee" Krsova ⚔️, luis antónio santos, Christopher Allen, Tristan Nitot - nitot chez framapiaf point org, Andreas Staub, Mark Kaigwa
youtube.com
Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary)
· Future Cities, a full-length documentary strand from WIRED Video, takes us inside the bustling Chinese city of Shenzhen. Subscribe to WIRED►► http://po.st/Su... · Shared by 93, including Patrick Sanwikarja, Abir Oreibi, Inês Silva, Henning von Vogelsang, Shawn Venasse, Dom Zuend, Alexandre Joly, Mark Kaigwa, Gio Tiongson, Kim Schläpfer, pizza.lottie 🍕, Nico Luchsinger, ErmanTaylan.eth
Fast Company
AI can now design cities. Should we let it?
2 min · · We used to worry about AI turning our world into gray goo. But maybe we should be more afraid of it bringing in a Starbucks and a Lululemon. · Shared by 94, including Tamara McCleary, Nige Roberts-Willson, Brooks Rainwater, Katja Evertz, Shawn Venasse, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Ronald van Loon
medium.com
Introducing the Citymapper Smartbus
4 min · · Reinventing the bus for the smart city era · Shared by 98, including Eric Allard, François-Oli Devaux, Niklaus Gerber, Klaus Eck, Thomas Power, Kévin Ronceray, Johannes Lenz, Paul Sturrock, Azeem Azhar, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Jose Pacheco, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Chris Messina, Shawn Venasse, Thomas Telandro
Engadget
Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy nightmare
5 min · · Sidewalk Labs promised 'privacy by design' in Quayside. Will it actually happen? · Shared by 99, including Maja Grolimund-Kurth, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Shawn Venasse, Stephanie A Kowalski, Lailo, Bas Grasmayer, Andrzej Jóźwik, Joe Filcik, Stefan Diepolder, Oliver Ewinger
The Guardian
Paris approves plan to turn Champs-Élysées into 'extraordinary garden'
2 min · · Mayor Anne Hidalgo gives green light to £225m-scheme to transform French capital’s most famous avenue · Shared by 107, including Shawn Venasse, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Patrick Sanwikarja, Brooks Rainwater, Dan Hill, Jeremy Cliffe, Lime, Tom Connor, Surface Magazine, Christopher Lauer™, Brent Toderian
Fast Company
How to build the city of the future, according to Ikea’s innovation lab
3 min · · ‘The Ideal City’ collects the most successful urban ideas from around the world, to serve as a sort of cookbook of best practices for city leaders. · Shared by 118, including Johannes Dornisch, Shawn Venasse, Luminous Kaleidoscope
The Guardian
Re-wilding our cities: beauty, biodiversity and the biophilic cities movement
5 min · · Buildings covered in plants do more than just make the cityscape attractive – they contribute to human wellbeing, biodiversity, and action on climate change · Shared by 200, including Damir Kusar, Amanda Sturgeon, UN Biodiversity, Shawn Venasse, Botany One, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos
Fast Company
Why cities should be designed for birds
7 min · · Habitats that are good for birds are good for people, too. · Shared by 128, including Brooks Rainwater, Faik Ersoy, Shawn Venasse, LARRY ELKAN