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AI (artificial intelligence) & Commercial Real Estate

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Artificial intelligence (AI), if used strategically, could significantly improve the commercial property sector for investors and owners. Asset managers, too, would benefit. AI will profoundly impact commercial real estate as data availability and transparency increase. This will encourage industry participants to adopt data-driven decision-making. The stakeholders who can grasp this massive shift will have an advantage over their peers. How AI is transforming the real estate industry AI can aggregate and analyze historical property values, market trends, and economic indicators to provide more accurate valuations. This allows investors to make better decisions by predicting the market's future performance. AI is being integrated into many real estate firms. Industry peers, for example, are using AI to enhance the user experience by automating property valuations, offering AI-powered insights and market trend analyses. We are still beginning to realize AI's potential in commer

Crypto, NFT's & The Tokenization Of Real Estate

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Imagine yourself as an avid lover of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and cryptocurrency, constantly keeping your fingers on the pulse of the continually evolving Web3 world. In this exciting realm, the concept known as asset tokenization is creating waves. It's as if a brand new time is breaking through the digital surface, and this is due to the rise of Web3 technology. Think of Web3 as a mystical advancement that is the web. It's a space where the idea of a trust-based and centralized online environment is being revised. Web3 instead, Web3 seeks to craft a world of security and decentralization rule supreme. Then, there's the intriguing surprise: Web3 isn't just about creators and their work and extends into areas like the illustrious realm of property. What is Tokenization Of Real Property Assets? Asset tokenization in real estate , through the use of Web3 technology, is the process of changing physical property into digital tokens that can be stored on a secure online p

Real Estate's Red-Headed Stepchild - Manufactured Housing

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  Discussions on policy for housing that are pro-supply are focused on high-land cost, high-opportunity metropolitan regions. Discussion of the "housing problem" focuses on costly coastal cities like Boston or San Francisco . In these cities, the combination of robust market conditions for labor and strict restrictions on homebuilding push median home costs to be more than twice the construction costs. Growth control laws, as well as land prices, are the most urgent issues for the policymakers in these regions to tackle. Construction costs do not are a factor when construction is not feasible.

The Generation Z Real Estate Experience

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Gen Z Americans — alongside the millennials, both generations born digitally are impacting the market for real estate. A recent Redfin study found that there were greater numbers of Gen Z homeowners than Gen X and millennial Americans of the same age. In fact, the Redfin report showed that the Zoomers are over their parent's homeownership rates, with 30% of those aged 25 and over owning homes in 2022, which is higher than the 27% average for Gen Xers who were at the same age. "Millennials Generation Zers" are living in homes longer, getting married later, and having kids later than before. They are going through the same period that the previous generations were living in their  "starter" houses ," said Dottie Herman, Vice Chair and former chief executive officer of Douglas Elliman Real Estate. Given the current rates, Herman said other investors might have purchased at record-low rates, so they don't plan to move anytime soon. In contrast, she said the

Foreign Buyers Are Pulling Out Of The U.S. Housing Market

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Foreign buyers are withdrawing out of the U.S. housing market, because  the high rates of mortgage  as well as soaring house prices as well as a limited number of homes available to sell as well as a robust dollar makes the purchase less attractive financially. Between April until March of this year, foreign buyers purchased 84,600 houses which is the lowest figure ever since the National Association of Realtors began recording these transactions in 2009, as well as it's a decrease of 14% compared to previous year. While foreign buyers purchased less homes, they spent much more.   The median value of the houses they bought was $396,400. which is the most expensive Realtors have ever seen. China, Mexico, Canada, India and Colombia were the top five nations of origin for foreign buyers of houses that are in the market by numbers of houses sold, and not dollars volume.   This survey doesn't include the construction of new homes, in which there are international buyers as well. Chi

Green Technology When Building New Homes

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W hat is green technology for building? Geothermal energy. Reducing the usage of cement. Ensuring windows are energy-efficient. There are many ways that new homes can showcase environmentally-friendly technologies. Here are a few examples of the latest trends and innovative methods to save energy in building for people seeking to lower their energy use or carbon footprint. Geothermal Heat Pumps The typical American household consumes more than 50 percent of its total energy for cooling and heating. Any action you can take to reduce the energy you consume can reduce the burden on the city's power supply and help save money. Geothermal heating systems depend on the steady temperatures of the earth to provide cooling and heating to your home throughout the season. The heat pumps transfer heat from one location to another rather than cooling or heating air. Since the unit is partly underground, it can benefit from cooler temperatures during the summer and warmer temperatures in winter,