What I Learned This Past Week - 4.4.23

Apr 04, 2023

This Week’s Musings

I am traveling for spring break so please bare with a trimmed down newsletter this week.

Informative Articles I Read

Don’t Count Out the Metaverse for Multifamily Communities (Multi-Housing News) - I’m not convinced that the 3-5 year timeframe is correct, but I do see community building opportunities for multifamily in the metaverse.
Real Estate Investors Buy Solana NFT Home for $246,800 (Blockworks) - Congrats to Homebase for their first home purchase!
International real estate giant Novotel to tokenize new hotel and residential project in Georgia (Finbold) - While the Republic of Georgia seems like an odd place to kick this off, pretty big news to see Novotel making this move.
Prevent Deepfakes From Hijacking Your Transactions (NAR) - Scary, but you can’t believe everything you run across on the internet.

Podcasts/Events/Webinars/etc. That I Listened To

Innovative Companies I Discovered

Mercator AI - Real-time construction intelligence using AI to mine and analyze millions of data points across the construction process to identify early leads for general contractors.
HouseAfrica - A Nigerian blockchain land and property registry.
WhiteRock AI - AI-based residential rental risk management.

People You Need To Follow On LinkedIn

Web3/AI Announcements From Proptech Companies

reAlpha Asset Management Inc. Acquires Real Estate Syndication Platform Rhove (BusinessWire) - reAlpha, an AI-powered real estate technology and investment acquired Rhove, an SEC qualified real estate investment and technology business.
Proptech REAL Messenger to go public through SPAC merger with Nova Vision (REAL) - Haven’t seen too many SPACs in any industry in the last 6 months so good on REAL Messenger for bucking this trend.

Random But (un)Important Things I Stumbled On

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