I would like to revisit the post that I wrote last week about the Brazil-based real estate startup, Loft. In it, I said that they are doing in Brazil what Opendoor, and others, are doing in the US. They are buying and flipping homes using… Read More
A new “transparent offer platform” called Haus has just launched in California to serve the residential real estate market. The way it works is that all offers are submitted online. And once an offer has been confirmed, it – along with all of its terms –… Read More
Todd W. Schneider recently mined data from the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission to create a chart summarizing yellow taxi, Uber, and Lyft usage. The data only runs up until January 2016, but here’s what he found: “…yellow taxis provided 60,000 fewer trips… Read More
I am currently in Hunstville, Ontario (Muskoka region) and I have about 15 minutes before I need to head out for dinner. So this is not going to be a long post. I did, however, want to share with you a new real estate app… Read More
Yesterday Opendoor.com finally launched their product in Phoenix. If you’re a regular reader of Architect This City, you might remember that back in July of this year I wrote about how they had just raised $10M of funding to make selling your home as easy… Read More
Roger Martin – who is the former dean of the Rotman School of Management and one of my favorite business thinkers – recently published a post on the Harvard Business Review blog called: The Dark Side of Efficient Markets. In it, he makes an interesting… Read More
The Globe and Mail ran a piece this morning called, The Realtors of Oz: Bidding wars are unnecessarily sleazy. For anyone who has recently tried to buy a house in Toronto, you’ll know that multiple offer scenarios, also known as “bidding wars”, are a fairly common… Read More
I just came across the following generational home buying data from the National Association of Realtors in the US (via Curbed SF): It was initially published in July 2013 and so I think the data represents what happened in 2012. The report isn’t exactly clear about… Read More
Yesterday the Globe and Mail published an article titled, “Weakening rental picture latest condo market worry.” At first glance, this title seems worrisome. Particularly since Toronto’s condo rental market was supposed to be so robust, with vacancy rates hovering around historic lows. But as I… Read More
Real estate is the largest asset class in the world—and also the most imperfect, says Harvard Business School professor Arthur Segel . He discusses trends toward institutionalization, environmentalism, and globalization.
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset — HBS Working Knowledge
BRANDON DONNELLY 