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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

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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

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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'

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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:

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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

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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

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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

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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’

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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

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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,

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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

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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.

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(Still) Untapped Opportunity in Fractions (Transmission #241)

By: Andrei Zverev Real estate crowdfunding (aka fractional ownership) has been around for about a decade. During that time, individual investors have poured more money into it compared to other crowdfunding opportunities, such as equity investments in start-ups and small businesses. Ironically, crowdfunding laws were initially designed for these two

The Sexy Tortoise

[Editor’s Note: Below is the full text of Part I of our 238th Weekly Transmission, originally delivered direct to the inbox of more than 600 GEM Diamond members on January 4th, 2023.] It’s 2023, and founders need to be ready to answer a question seemingly nobody has cared

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Burning the Agent Effigy Once and For All

By: GREG FISCHER [Note from editor: We publish Bi-Weekly Transmissions for paying members of the GEM Crystal that consist of long form articles covering the spectrum from shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war. Below is a sample Transmission, written by

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The Undisrupted: A Portrait of Blue Collar America

By: Brian Adams [Note from editor: We publish Bi-Weekly Transmissions for paying members of the GEM Crystal that consist of long form articles covering the spectrum from shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war. Below is a sample Transmission.] There are

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Certainty as a Service (Newsletter #43 Part II)

By: Greg Fischer [Note from editor: We publish Bi-Weekly Transmissions for paying members of the GEM Crystal that consist of long form articles covering the spectrum from shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war. Below is a sample Transmission.] As Opendoor