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Weekly Radar #266 - Biodiversity Steams Ahead, Homes in 33, and Dropping in the Last Mile

This Week's Radar Snapshot: * A UN task force is looking to bring transparency to biodiversity reporting and startups are looking to capitalize on the opportunity . * How pre-fab company Cover is able to build a home in 33 days. * Autonomous delivery network, Arrive, just filled a patent for a smart mailbox

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Short Curious. We’ve Got You (Newsletter #266)

Editor's Corner: Links surrounded by the ❇️ emoji indicate exclusive GEM Diamond content. If you would like to have access to all links, please consider GEM Diamond membership. Short-, mid-, and long-term are morphing into one. ❇️ Zumper made the jump last year❇️, and I asked “how long until Zillow and Airbnb

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Weekly Radar #265 - Cash, the Future of Vouchers and the Product or Partner Future for 3D

This Week's Radar Snapshot: * Housing Choice Vouchers are being replaced with Cash under a new HUD pilot program * How a recent funding round for Mighty Buildings indicates that 3D home printing can mean much more for developers Editor's Corner: By: Drew Meyers Blueprint has come and gone. What a week

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Weekly Radar #264 - The Wild West of ESG Ratings, $3B In Climate Damage in the Middle of the Pacific, & Repurposing a Decommissioned Oil Rig

THIS WEEK'S RADAR COVERS: * Possible solutions to the ambiguity of ESG ratings. * An update on the expected damage caused by the wildfires in Maui. * How a scuba resort in Malaysia emerged from an oil rig. EDITOR'S CORNER: Blueprint is this week, and we're looking forward to seeing many of you

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Proptech Highlight: A Blanket Solution for a Nuanced Problem (Newsletter #265)

EDITOR'S CORNER: In this Transmission, we explore how Blanket's property management dashboard is being leveraged to build an off-market brokerage platform for property managers to help retain their doors under management. Trust me, it makes more sense as we get into it.  -DM Keep your doors under management. It’s

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A Crystal is Born From the GEM

I started objectively covering the real estate industry back in 2007 via the Geek Estate Blog with a goal to keep tech savvy agents, brokers, and executives on the cutting edge of real estate technology and marketing. The term proptech didn't exist back then. Fast forward ten years, I made

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Weekly Radar #263 - A Trickle to a Stream of Sustainability Data Thanks to Google, Beds at the Ballpark, and The Gen 1 & Gen 2 Future

EDITOR'S CORNER: We hope you all had a great Labor Day Weekend. With Summer winding down, we're looking forward to the Fall push before the industry winds down for the holiday season. Are you attending Blueprint next week? The Geek Estate Team is, and we'd love to connect. Shoot Ben

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An Unlikely Pinch Hitter Knocks a Homerun (Newsletter #264)

We’re going on four weeks since the ransomware attack on Rapattoni Corporation led to the “paraly[sis of] servers hosting multiple listing services with hundreds of thousands of members.” Rapattoni’s Association Management System and its IdP were also brought to their knees. A week later, the situation had

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Weekly Radar #262 - ESG Sticks and Sustainability Stones & The Frustration of Inequitable Insurance

EDITOR'S CORNER: Conference season is just around the corner. We're at iOi in Miami Beach this week, with Blueprint and CREtech just around the corner. If you see us around, we'd love to talk with you! -DM CLIMATE ESG STICKS AND SUSTAINABILITY STONES By: Logan Nagel A recent social media

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Weekly Radar #261 - Utter Value Decimation, Inserting the Consumer, Revitalizing the Smart City Bus...

EDITOR'S CORNER This past week, due to the onslaught of AI startups promising efficiencies never before seen, I decided to modernize the merits of friction essay originally published five years ago. It's a bit of a narrative violation, but think you'll like it. Prior to that, Stephen Del Percio explored

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Don’t Discount the Merits of a Friction-full Transaction (Newsletter #263)

Friction is good, not bad. At least in a residential real estate context. I know, I know … not many entrepreneurs believe that. But home is where family and community are built. It provides residents with a sanctuary, and a form of wealth creation while they seek prosperity and success. This

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Proptech Earnings Radar - Q2 2023

Second quarter results are in for proptech’s public companies. Our last summary of results was Q2 2021. As part of launching our Crystal tier, we’re bringing the earnings radar back. This time, better than ever as an ongoing Biz Intel Series. We’re re-starting with the ten companies

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Weekly Radar #260 - Wear Green To Your Next Job Interview & Walking to a Friendly Face

EDITOR'S CORNER We have big news: We’re switching to a new platform (Ghost) to make the GEM Crystal better than ever! To view this week’s radar, you can go ahead and view it at the link below (you'll have to login w/ your email address): https://crystal.geekestate.

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Weekly Radar #259- Carbon Concrete, Touch of Green, Another VC STR in the Closet...

EDITOR'S CORNER In a deviation from our normal residential and commercial tech, Stephen Del Percio deep dives on agriculture tech, exploring the impact of vertical farming. In this week's Radar, we cover the power of insurtech/proptech companies to respond to climate change, manufactured concrete, plants in the office, a

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An Agricultural Crisis of Green Proportions (Newsletter #261)

BY: STEPHEN DEL PERCIO [Adapted from infrastruttura, a new newsletter covering innovation in the design, development, and delivery of global civil infrastructure.] High-tech hydroponic vertical farms were once viewed as an elegant solution to deforestation and climate change-driven food insecurity, and a leafy green oasis within the food deserts that

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Weekly Radar #258 - Biden's Rental "Junk Fees", Barbie and the Built Genius

EDITOR'S CORNER After a relaxing week at the beach, I'm back in Seattle from North Carolina's Outer Banks. Digging back in this week to get ready for the upcoming conference season. -DM CLIMATE THE CLIMATE THREAT NO ONE SAW COMING By: Logan Nagel It’s a rough year for ESG.

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Weekly Radar #257 - Bright Chip for Compression, A Bay Portal to Affordable Housing...

EDITOR'S CORNER I'm in the Outer Banks of North Carolina this week, a beautiful part of the country I've never explored before. What topics are you curious to learn more about? And, as always, any/all general feedback is appreciated. Email us. -DM REAL ESTATE A BRIGHT CHIP FOR COMPRESSION?

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Transparency Rules, Secrecy Drools (Newsletter #260)

There are few who would argue against the benefits of transparency in business. In the wake of the Enron scandal, increasing transparency was the driving factor behind passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, which penalized destroying, altering, or fabricating financial records. Public companies are forced to disclose pretty much

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Weekly Radar #256 - Wild West to Green West, Tax Credit Cliff Looms, Elon To the Rescue

EDITOR'S CORNER Summer vacations continue and the fall GEM events lineup continues to take shape. Without further ado...on to this week's curated stories. -DM PS: For the tennis fans out there, the Alcaraz vs Djokovic Wimbledon final between was epic. -DM TRANSMISSION RECAP Last week, Drew Meyers explored providing

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The Best Possible Housing Deal (Newsletter #259)

I’m a pyro. Always have been. Guilty as charged. Bonfires are my jam. Growing up on a lake, bonfires were an occurrence multiple times per week throughout spring and summer. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that a love for fire means the 4th of July was a

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Weekly Radar #255 - Timber in the Neighborhood, Perfection in Evicts, Leapfrogging from Bricks to Bytes

EDITOR'S CORNER With summer in full swing, I've spent the last few weeks mostly at our family lake house, playing tennis, and watching a slew of action-packed Wimbledon matches. While the tranquility is magical for now, I am gearing up for a travel-laced fall schedule hitting Miami, Las Vegas, New

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Weekly Radar #254 - Pulling the IDX Plug, Closing ZG's Closing Shop, One Less Peer ...

EDITOR'S CORNER Welcome to the first edition of the GEM Crystal Weekly Radar! Our mission is to deliver intellectual stimulation for established and aspiring proptech minds—an exclusive, objective lens into the trends, companies, people, and ideas shaping the future of real estate and the broader built world. Weekly Radars

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A GEM of a Personal Jam (Newsletter #247)

Failure’s a real bitch isn’t it? And it’s a topic we don’t talk about nearly enough. I experienced my first jolting failure in 2017: the end of the road for my travel startup. That moment served as a critical stepping stone on my personal journey. Five

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Banking Real Estate in the Clouds (Newsletter #242)

The benefits of customer loyalty are well documented. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that people like earning something for their time, effort, and attention. A full 37% of consumers “are willing to pay a fee for access to enhanced loyalty program benefits,” according to 2018

State of the GEM Diamond 2023

[Editor’s Note: Below is the full text of our 239th Weekly Transmission, originally delivered direct to the inbox of more than 600 GEM Diamond members on January 11th, 2023.] Collectively, the GEM Diamond is a diverse community of proptech innovators spanning every role, sector, and geography. While the biz