The Blog Archive: 2013 - 2023

• 2024

• The New Glass Bead Game: AI and the Search for Synthesis

• Real Estate as Maven

• A blueprint for the future of rental living (‘podcast‘)

• The Consequences for Offices of Artificial Intelligence

• The AI Optimist's Vision: A Transformative Future for Real Estate?

• Can we go from ‘Zero to One’ in Real Estate?

• New Generative AI for Real Estate podcast!

• Generative AI, PropTech, and Human-Centric Real Estate

• It is not 2nd best when the best would never have happened.

• I predict a riot …..

• How long have you got?

• AI and Real Estate - You can Predict the Future

• We need to think of LLMs as second brains

• 10 ‘must do’s’ to thrive in the age of artificial intelligence

• Three Ways to Incorporate Your Own Data When Working with Generative AI

• Why Real Estate Needs a New Mindset to Succeed with Generative AI

• 5 Questions about AI and the Future of Architecture

• So you want to be in PropTech?

• Using Midjourney to treat ‘similar’ spaces differently

• Human-Centricity: Our Superpower in an AI-Mediated World

• ‘Gradually, then suddenly’ - Part 2

• 'Gradually, then suddenly' - Part 1

• Human-Centric Real Estate & Generative AI - Part 1

• The future of commercial real estate is highly predictable …..

• Mega Myth - To use AI you need a lot of Data

• Using AI to Turbo Charge Human-Centric Real Estate

2023

• Shaping the AI Economy: A Holistic Approach Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking

• Let the new cycle begin

• Strive to be extraordinary

• Using Generative AI in the Flex Market

• Generative AI, Remote Working and Offices: the Future?

• We Need to Become Exponential Humans

• Mentoring in a hybrid world - Human + Machine?

• Future Real Estate Skills - Human or Machine?

• Cities, AI and the Metaverse? Risks, Opportunities, Actions

• Generative AI for Real Estate People - Conclusion/Summary

• Generative AI for Real Estate People, in 10 Steps - Part 2

• Generative AI for Real Estate People, in 10 Steps

• Real Estate's Four Great Challenges - Part 5

• Real Estate's Four Great Challenges - Part 4

• Real Estate's Four Great Challenges - Part 3

• Real Estate's Four Great Challenges - Part 2

• Real Estate's Four Great Challenges - Part 1

• Future-Proofing: 5 Questions to Ask in Times of Uncertainty

• AI in the Office - How ChatGPT is Reshaping the Work We Do

• The inevitability of #SpaceasaService

• Office Valuation: What will Matter?

• #SpaceasaService - 20 Branding Questions

• The Genius of Charles Handy

• Delusional Thinking on Planet PropTech

• The Unreal Side of Real Estate

• Seven characteristics of the best PropTech companies

• Our Four Great Challenges

• #SpaceAsAService and the hyper competitive company

• 52 (+1) Pointers

2022

• Smart - The most misunderstood word in real estate?

• Relationships, Networks, Ecosystems - ‘How can we help?’

• Sustainability - The Third Fly Wheel for #SpaceasaService

• Health & Wellbeing: You want productive employees don’t you?

• Human + Machine: The Unbeatable Double Act

• Productivity: Where does Real Estate fit in?

• Whatever the future holds …..

• You cannot brand real estate

• The massive opportunity going unmet in real estate

• Skills in Real Estate: Please Sir, may I have some more?

• Innovation: If not now, then when?

• The KPIs of the office of the future

• What matters in the future of Real Estate?

• It’s not about the building

• The Human Case of Return to Workplace

• What it means to own a smart building (podcast)

• How Real Estate and Tech Work Together (podcast)

• #SpaceAsAService: The Trillion Dollar Hashtag - Version 2

• You’ve had two years - Part 2

• You’ve had two years ....

• Do you want to sell sugar water all your life?

• How can we help?

• Two Peas in a Pod: In real estate you need to Educate to Innovate

• Storytelling is the new real estate super skill - Follow up.

• Storytelling is the new real estate super skill

• Real Estate 2022: The New Rules of Engagement

2021

• Real Estate and Crypto / Web3

• Offices 2032: will tech have made them redundant?

• Twenty Trends for Post Covid Real Estate

• The paradox of an exponential tech world ...

• Build, Measure, Learn in Real Estate

• A podcast with John Bennett, partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP

• Reimagining Office Space as a Service

• De-Densification and the New Metrics of the Office

• Real Estate AC - After Coronavirus

• The Real Innovation Academy: A Year of Learning

• This isn’t an acceleration, it’s a revolution

• The paradox of an exponential tech world ...

• Build, Measure, Learn in Real Estate

• De-Densification and the New Metrics of the Office

• A podcast with John Bennett, partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP

• CBRE & Industrious - The Chicken and the Pig

• Reimagining Office Space as a Service

• Real Estate AC - After Coronavirus

2020

• The Redundancy of Real Estate - and how to avoid it.

• Old work is leaving the building–The Future of the Office

• Talent and the Real Estate Company of the Future

• Sustainability, Coronavirus, and Real Estate

• What's the value of an office?

• The forcing function of Covid-19 .....

• The Real Estate Innovators Podcast

• Barcelona - Video - AI and Humans

• Retail Real Estate after the Apocalypse

• Covid-19 & Real Estate - a conversation with Andrew Deverell-Smith

• In Pursuit of Value - The changing drivers of Valuation (long form - 6900 words)

• Samsara podcast with Gyana founder Joyeeta Das

• The Real Market Podcast with Chris Rising

• Property Perspectives Webinar - 2

• #PropertyTomorrow Webinar

• Work, The Workplace and Covid-19

• Property Perspectives Webinar - 1

• Flex-Space Operational Metrics: Measuring what matters, matters.

• 20 changes in the 2020s

• Real Estate as a Service: All Change, All Change: 5 10 Takeaways

• Real Estate as a Service: All Change, All Change: 4 Invest wisely

• Real Estate as a Service: All Change, All Change: 3 Landlords aren’t what they used to be…..

• Real Estate as a Service: All Change, All Change: 2 Human + Machine; because technology is not enough

• Real Estate as a Service: All Change, All Change: 1 The changing nature of demand

2019

• My talk at the PropTech, Data & Innovation Summit

• Technology, People, Retail & The Future of Shopping Centres

• Retail Real Estate: Tech, PropTech, Value

• WeWork - Equally Cursed and Blessed

• Winners & Losers in PropTech: 16 Differences

• AI, Retail Real Estate, Value: 6 Questions

• How should Landlords respond to Flexible Workspace Demand? Are you a Pig or a Chicken?

• Space as a Service: The Trillion Dollar Hashtag

2018

• Proptech in 2018: Are we there yet?

• CREtech Futures… What If?

• Real Estate and technological denial

• Incentives, #SpaceAsAService, and the coming Golden Age of Real Estate

• AI and Real Estate

• Tweetstorm on OneMarket - Genius move or value chain disrupter? Both

• Real Estate as a Service: Are flexible short term leases the new future? 16 Provocations!

• Will Artificial Intelligence eliminate Real Estate jobs? Part 2...

• Will Artificial Intelligence eliminate Real Estate jobs? Part 1...

• Space As A Service - but bigger than that

• How to think about AI in Real Estate

• In Commercial Real Estate? Forget Blockchain and Bitcoin, AI is where you should be focussing

• In brief: How #PropTech will change in 2018 compared to 2017

• So.. did my dreams come true?

• A Tweetstorm - Analogue Real Estate:(

2017

• 10 Signals of Fundamental Change - VIDEO

• From Offices to Imaginariums - a Podcast

• Innovation in Real Estate: It’s now or never

• Innovation - Enlightenment 2.0?

• Space As A Service - talk to Nordic PropTech Summit

• An interview with Bayfield Training

• An interview with ORM London

• The Real Estate Transformation Omelette: Five Essential Ingredients

• In Conversation with: Six video chats about the future of Real Estate - VIDEO

• How the Real Estate industry approaches technology - a tweetstorm.....

• Podcast with Estates Gazette - PODCAST

• Update on The Stoddart Review - VIDEO

• AI in Real Estate: Death or Glory?

• Commercial Real Estate and Retail: New Business Models

• 2017 Top 50 Commercial Real Estate Blogs You Must Read

• Podcast No 2 with the 'Godfather of PropTech' Duke Long - PODCAST

• Duke Long’s Updated: 2017 Top 100 Commercial Real Estate People You Must Follow On Twitter.

• Podcast with the 'Godfather of PropTech' Duke Long - PODCAST

• 10 ‘Signals’ of fundamental change in real estate

• Smart Buildings, #SpaceAsAService and the Human Deficit

• New Business Models in Real Estate: Space as a Service

• Retail in 2017 - the year offline and online merge

• #SpaceAsAService and its consequences

• Estates Gazette: Tech Talk Radio - PODCAST

• Real Estate Developer 2020: What does that look like?

• Know what you know, and what you do not

• Property Managers: From Zero to Hero

2016

• #PropTech resolutions for 2017

• Real estate and the Philosopher’s Stone

• What is Tech? How will it impact real estate?

• PropTech: The Big Picture

• Technology: celebrating 20 years of EGi

• Brexit will turbo charge the technology industry and radically change real estate

• Real Estate: Equally Cursed and Blessed

• Digital Strategy No 5: The dirty secret about innovation

• Digital Strategy No 4: Data, analytics and the big but

• Digital Strategy No 3: Thinking exponentially about what your customers want

• Digital Strategy No 2: Rethink your customers - and your partners

• Digital Strategy No 1: IT Teams and digitising the past

• Being Digital in Property - Your starter for 10

• You need a digital strategy

• 2016: The Lily Pond Year

• What Planet Property can and needs to learn from Planet Tech

• Essential tech for real estate: Augmented/Virtual Reality

• True collaboration is disruptive

• The impact of technology on real estate: A Panglossian future?

• The past is a poor guide to the future

• Essential tech for real estate: WiredScore

• Tech is the lazy (and smart) person's friend

• Essential tech for real estate: Web Summit

• Real estate brands in the digital age

• Essential tech for real estate: Slack

• Ten technology changes impacting real estate

2015

• It's Trends not Fads that matter

• Essential tech for real estate: Online courses

• Real estate developers, investors and technology; staying competitive in a changing world

• 3 questions 6 answers

• Essential tech for real estate: Books

• You don't need to code but you must speak digital

• 2023: The Future of Real Estate

• Is the real estate industry really about real estate?

• When physical real estate isn't enough

• How technology will impact property developers

• Essential tech for real estate: Apple Watch

• Essential tech for real estate: Brain food

• It's not about Disruption - it's much more important than that

• Property people make one of two mistakes when it comes to tech

• Look at Microsoft to see how the world has changed

• Essential tech for real estate: Drones

• 2015: The Year of How and Why?

• The transformative nature of digital

2014

• Essential tech for real estate: Citymapper

• Keep up at the back

• In retail, who’s the Chicken and who the Pig?

• In a digital world your UX is your brand

• Essential tech for property people: Twitter

• Redesigning Property for a digital world

• Management in a digital world

• Analogue thinking in a digital world

• Digital marketing is pointless

• You're never going to buy a suit online

• How is technology set to further shape real estate?

• Cycling, Property and the Digital Layer

• Is the Property world getting 'a sense of place' all wrong?

• Hey! You! Get on to my cloud

• Real Estate: From a People to a Tech Business

• Two messages to Planet Property from Planet Tech

2013

• Being Digital - A primer for commercial real estate. Part 3

• Being Digital - A primer for commercial real estate. Part 2

• Being Digital - A primer for commercial real estate. Part 1

• 4 Tech Megatrends for Commercial Real Estate

• Property and Retail: high st, retail park or shopping centre - tech is your No 1 enemy... Or potential best friend

• Commercial Property and NanoTech - A glimpse into the future, available today

• Retail Property & the Internet: Only the Paranoid will survive

• Twitter for Business - a Primer

• Commercial property: why is the most sociable of industries so anti-social?

• Tech for Commercial Property - Megatrend No 4: Connectivity

• Tech for Commercial Property - Megatrends No 3: The Internet of Things

• Tech for Commercial Property - Megatrends No 2: The Cloud…. Free at last!

• Tech for Commercial Property - Megatrend No 1: Mobile….and why you must bin the Blackberry

• Commercial Property - The Four Tech Megatrends that Matter

• Cloud computing for commercial property

• Essential mobile applications for business, property and life

• The Art of Online Collaboration