Paid-members only Weekly Radar Weekly Radar #292: Painting Small Offices Green, $57M Added to Settlement Sum, REW Strikes First What's covered in this week's GEM Crystal Weekly Radar: * Logan dives into the increasing demand for sustainable office space and how inventory appears to be falling short. * Compass "agreed to settle in its commission lawsuits" for $57.5 million. * Drew covers the first buy
Proptech Earnings Radar Proptech Earnings Radar - Q4 2023 (Series IV, Part III) Fourth quarter results are finally (mostly) in for proptech’s public companies. We’re back at it, with high-level summaries of the ten companies we deem as the most important players in the broader category, and a table view covering the top thirty one companies. Without further ado, let’s
Paid-members only Weekly Radar Weekly Radar #291: The $418 Million Settlement, It Pays To Sign, Sustainability Arms Race What's covered in this week's GEM Crystal Weekly Radar: * Drew covers this week's $418MM NAR settlement and what it means for brokerage entities. * How are buyers incentivized to participate in Redfin's new Sign & Save program? We cover the program details. Geek
Paid-members only Weekly Transmission It’s All in the Wood (Transmission #284) As always, 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. Concrete, timber, masonry, steel—four of the most foundational elements of commercial and residential real estate. This statement is true now, but also
Paid-members only Weekly Radar Weekly Radar #290: An Unlikely Cooperation, Binging a Comeback, Gold N Green? What's covered in this week's GEM Crystal Weekly Radar: * Realtor.com and Zillow have agreed to a partnership - an unlikely agreement between two arch rivals. * We cover Microsoft's return to online real estate with Bing Homes. * Which PropTech categories are investors most interested
Paid-members only Proptech Earnings Radar Weekly Radar #289: A Resi Roll-Up, Contech Powder What's covered in this week's GEM Crystal Weekly Radar: * Will the future of real estate PropTech adoption be driven by agents? Logan analyzes Opendoor's latest partnership with real estate agency eXp Realty. * Zacua Ventures just raised $56M for a new fund, specifically targeting contech
Paid-members only Weekly Radar Weekly Radar #288: The SaaS Carbon Grass Is Greener, Lender or Portal What's covered in this week's GEM Crystal Weekly Radar: * BlueLayer raised a $10M seed round to build a product supporting carbon developers. * Drew Meyers covers Tomo, a new entrant into the home search portal space. Will the way it uses AI differentiate it enough from other
Weekly Transmission The Long and the Short of Zillbnb (Transmission #281) 💡CRYSTAL TRANSMISSION: Thought-provoking long-form articles covering a wide spectrum from innovative shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war to the implications of floating cities seen from beaches far and wide. Curious? Additional examples. Proptech's Leader has Been Crashing Our
Paid-members only Weekly Radar #287 - The Next Wellness Frontline Is In The Air , DOJ Weighs In, Realizing The Family Discount What's covered in this week's GEM Crystal Weekly Radar: * How does air quality affect homebuyer purchasing considerations? * Buyer agents may see significantly higher competition for clients. Drew takes a fresh look at the most recent DOJ's stance and what it means. * Drew covers the
Paid-members only Weekly Radar #286 - Sticking The Local Law 97 Landing, The Future Of Home Showings Is Here, What Is Seen Is Not What Is What's covered in this week's GEM Crystal Weekly Radar: * We take a fresh look at New York City’s Local Law 97 and what the compliance periods could result in. * We cover Zillow's Immerse, and look at how it can revolutionize the future of
Paid-members only Weekly Transmission Hardware is the Missing Piece to Cracking Bloomberg (Transmission #280) 💡CRYSTAL TRANSMISSION: Thought-provoking long-form articles covering a wide spectrum from innovative shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war to the implications of floating cities seen from beaches far and wide. Curious? Additional examples. Proptech's Leader has Been Crashing Our
Weekly Radar Weekly Radar #285- The Climate Joneses, Standing Together in Shared Living Arrangements, and AI Teamed with Buses What's covered in this week's GEM Crystal Weekly Radar: * The Science Based Targets initiative aims to help real estate firms contribute to the Paris climate agreement’s 1.5°C temperature reduction target by instituting new methods of emissions target-setting, accounting, and reporting. * Padsplit was recently
Paid-members only Weekly Radar Weekly Radar #284- Removing the Easy Button, “Greenhushing”, John Deere Partnerships, AI Revolution... Here's what we're covering in this week's edition of the GEM Crystal: * New FCC regulation went into effect this week, looking to curb rampant robotexting. Real estate practitioners should expect lead volume to go way down but lead quality to improve drastically. * Companies are
Paid-members only Weekly Transmission Deriving at Software Decisions with AI (Transmission #279) As always, 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. Practicing agents, big and small landlords, and general contractors all have to evaluate the software that will serve as the spine of their
Paid-members only Weekly Radar Weekly Radar #283- Sharing the Way Forward, The Good Bad and Ugly of Recreational Reuse, Tools of The Office Conversion Trade, Equity Angels, and Coffee to the Future Here's what we're covering in this week's edition of the GEM Crystal: * Mark Choey from Highnote spoke with us for our Executive Interview Series. * REColorado recently partnered with four major MLS groups, unlocking listings in relocation markets for REcolorado agents. * Indianapolis' Bush Baseball
Paid-members only Weekly Radar Weekly Radar # 282 - A Peculiar Inman Decision, Adding Gravy to Agent Selection, Influx of As-a-Service, Blocks of Physicality Built of Blocks... Here's what we're exploring in this week's edition of the Crystal Radar: * Inman is doubling down with two more events...a move that will degrade production quality. * A homeownership accelerator, Gravy, is set to be acquired by Clever Real Estate. Another soft landing for
Weekly Transmission State of the GEM 2024 (Transmission 278) Editor's Note: The below essay was originally published for members of the GEM Diamond, Geek Estate's executive level networking group. This is the 4th year publishing our "State of the Union" (historical links at the bottom of this article) and we spend hours compiling
Paid-members only Weekly Radar Weekly Radar #281 - Clearing the Way, Hedging Against Hedges, & A Tech City For Me But Not Thee? Here's what we're covering in this week's Radar: * Identification verification company CLEAR partnered with Landing, a membership-based flex rental company. * Legislators are looking to restrict hedge funds and corporates from owning single family residential homes, but will the bills pass? * Let's hope
Looking Forward to 2024: Wild Wild West (Transmission #277) 💡CRYSTAL TRANSMISSION: Thought-provoking long-form articles covering a wide spectrum from innovative shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war to the implications of floating cities seen from beaches far and wide. Curious? Additional examples. Proptech's Leader has Been Crashing Our
Weekly Radar Weekly Radar #280 - Crowdsourcing Local Intel, Buzzing From IoT, Sadness in Mobility, & A Flowing Puzzle Here's what we're covering this week's edition of the GEM Crystal Radar: * Domicile announced their "Game of Homes," allowing users to challenge friends and put their real estate knowledge to the test in a new game. * Beewise is fusing tech like cameras,
Paid-members only Weekly Transmission Flipping the CRE Script: Paying Your Tenants (Transmission #276) Written by: Duke Long [Adapted from Duke’s newsletter on December 14th, 2023] 💡CRYSTAL TRANSMISSION: Thought-provoking long-form articles covering a wide spectrum from innovative shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war to the implications of floating cities seen from beaches far
Paid-members only Weekly Radar #279 - All-In On Commissions, Back With a Fractional Marketplace, & To Infinity And Beyond…For ConTech Here's what we're covering in this week's edition of the Crystal Radar * The All-In Podcast discussed the commission lawsuits on their most recent episode, but none of the "Besties" argued for the value of an agent--a massive miss for NAR and the
Looking Back on 2023 (Transmission #275) 💡CRYSTAL TRANSMISSION: Thought-provoking long-form articles covering a wide spectrum from innovative shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war to the implications of floating cities seen from beaches far and wide. Curious? Additional examples. Proptech's Leader has Been Crashing Our
Paid-members only Weekly Radar Weekly Radar #278- Let’s Build Better Tools Not Farmers, Incentives in Fours, and GEM's First Sleepover Here's what we're covering in this week's (packed) edition of the GEM Crystal Radar * We're hosting our first ever GEM Diamond Retreat in a lava cave (yes, it's real and it's as sweet as it sounds). * An update