What I Learned This Past Week - 4.25.23
Drawing to the end
This Week’s Musings
After much contemplation, I’ve decided to end the REw3 newsletter on next week’s one-year anniversary. I’ve learned a tremendous amount about web3 over this past year and do believe there are many exciting real estate innovations to come. Thank you to everyone who has connected with me and I hope I have helped all reader’s further your understanding of the real estate web3 space.
Informative Articles I Read
New AI to give homes a green rating (ThePropertyTribune) - Australia’s national science agency CSIRO and CoreLogic have partnered to create a new tool called RapidRate which uses AI that assesses the energy efficiency of residential homes.
Create Your Dream Home with AI - And Find Out if it Really Exists on Realtor.com® (PRnewswire) - Cool twist on home listing search, using AI’s content discovery capabilities to create a more visually engaging way of finding homes.
Can Real Estate Tokenization Impact Social Cause in ESG? (HeightZeroRealEstate)- We’ve seen early examples of success with projects like EquityCoin. I’m certain with more education and awareness, we will see this space really take off.
Podcasts/Events/Webinars/etc. That I Listened To
Organizing The World Real Estate Data And Making It Universally Accessible (Deal Flow podcast) - Great to see our friend Zach Gorman from BHR spreading the word about how they are using AI and blockchain to solve the problem of data accessibility and fidelity for residential real estate.
Innovative Companies I Discovered
Firmseed - An innovative platform that leverages blockchain technology to provide users with access to fractional ownership of real estate properties.
HouseAfrica - A platform leveraging blockchain technology to digitize and enhance land ownership in Africa.
ProprHome - A Lisbon, Portugal blockchain real estate marketplace.
People You Need To Follow On LinkedIn
Caleb Richter - CEO of MyEListing.
Web3/AI Announcements From Proptech Companies
Addressable Releases ListingArchitect™ to Provide Agents with AI-Generated Listing Descriptions (BusinessWire) - Addressable is on a roll dropping new AI solutions in short succession. This week’s release is ListingArchitect which generates property listing descriptions for real estate agents.
Random But (un)Important Things I Stumbled On
AI Is Going to Escalate the Need for This Real Estate (TheMotleyFool) - Perhaps this is a bit of a stretch to include, but it certainly highlights the importance of legacy real estate classes as AI use cases across all industries skyrockets.