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Executive Profile: CBRE's Arden Karson on the best career advice she's received

ARDEN KARSON Age: 57 Birthplace: New York City Residence: Bay Harbor Islands Current position: Senior managing director for South Florida, CBRE Previous positions: Senior VP at the Related Group, Lennar and LNR Organizations/boards: Executive board member, Friends of the Underline; advisory board, University of Miami Masters in Real Estate and...

Deepblocks opens to the public. Just in time for quarantine.

We’ve brought down our sign-up walls and are now open to the public with quite a bit of functionality. If you’d like to test real estate options for any property, now you can, at no cost. Try it here: https://bit.ly/deepblocks The free demo includes: Search for properties based on size....

University of Miami Interview: Olivia Ramos of Deepblocks

Olivia Ramos is an entrepreneur, architect, and founder and CEO of Deepblocks, an artificial intelligence company that uses data to optimize real estate development. A native of Cuba who grew up in Miami, Ramos obtained a master’s degree in architecture from Columbia University before pursuing a master’s in real estate...

Are you Afraid of AI?

As a graduate of Singularity University, I subscribe to the idea that digitization and automation promise a future of abundance. Undeniably, it will require new skill sets. From time to time, I get the feeling that I need to start learning how to code. The sooner we move towards acquiring...

Deepblocks Custom PDF: Branded Real Estate Reports

Most of what we are building today is by request of our customers. The need for custom real estate reports was heard loud and clear. I wasn’t sure what the big deal was until I looked into what it took to create a branded real estate presentation. Investors, brokers, and...

Old buildings: What is Replacement Cost?

There are good reasons to keep an older building. In this blog I will go over replacement cost and how it affects investing in existing buildings. Replacement cost is asking the questions “how much would it cost if I had to build it from scratch?”. This is important to understand...

Investing in Single-Family Homes? Find the ones zoned for duplex.

Single-family homes make up a large percentage of most of our cities' total area. For example, in the City of Miami, 46,400 of 67,921 parcels (68%) are zoned for single-family homes. In Los Angeles, 436,427 of 671,742 parcels (65%) are zoned for single-family. As urbanization increases, slowly but surely zoning...

How Big Data Will Impact Real Estate Buying, Selling and Developing

Big data, the vast amount of information generated daily in our connected world, is upending business models in industries from finance to tourism. It is also permeating real estate, a multi-pronged, multi-billion-dollar sector known for its reliance on tradition and intuition. “Real estate has traditionally been a late adopter in...