Congrats to Module (a member of Geek Estate Mastermind)…they recently released a timelapse of their first house being built in 2 days. Super, super cool! This makes me even more bullish on the future potential for modular construction.

Exciting times. A Geek Estate Mastermind member, Anna-Lea Dieringer, launched her product today! Remarkably, a multifamily marketing analytics and insights platform. Full press release is below (or here)… Remarkably Launches, Offering Multifamily Owners Unprecedented Insight and Actionability for Largest Asset Class in the World The Seattle-based company raised…

Taking a two hour train ride to Seattle, then a second 30 minute train to the airport, fly for 5 hours, and then ride in a Lyft for an hour into NYC is a lot of time to invest in getting to CREtech NYC. But…

Eco-Shelter is a social enterprise increasing access to safe and affordable roofing for low-income households in India. Globally, 1.6 billion people lack access to adequate shelter; in India alone, there are more than 350 million people. A roof over your head is one of the most basic…

At CREtech’s event yesterday in New York, 2018 #RETAS winners consisting of the best & most innovative tech companies in the commercial sector were named in the following categories: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BLOCKCHAIN CONSTRUCTION COWORKING/POP UP RETAIL CRM & MARKETING CROWDFUNDING & CAPITAL SOURCING GEOSPATIAL &…

[Note from editor: This is adapted from this week’s Weekly Radar for Geek Estate Mastermind members. Given it’s industry significance, I thought it worthwhile to publish publicly.] Airbnb will start designing and building housing prototypes in 2019 as part of Backyard, a new Samara project announced…

[Note from editor: we’ve started a new regular series here on Geek Estate Blog — the “Podcast of the Week”. On Wednesdays, we’ll highlight a podcast we feel is relevant to tech savvy real estate professionals.] Blueprint Power unlocks new revenue for real-estate owners by…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Sonny Tai, the CEO of Aegis AI, a MetaProp company in the latest cohort. Without further ado… What do you do? I grew up in South Africa, where gun homicide rates are 4x higher…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Jeremy Jennings from Jabbrrbox. They build and sell “The modern phone booth”. This video by NBR provides some further color: Without further ado… What do you do? We provide privacy on demand in loud and…

The PropTech Challenge, a virtual real estate hackathon sponsored by the Real Estate Board of New York, is open for submissions. The primary goal is build functioning software that solves a problem for real estate owners, managers, and developers. Participants will compete for a grand…