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New Ideas to Solve America’s Housing Affordability Crisis

Top 25 Finalists for 2021 Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability Announced Newswise — (Salt Lake City, Utah, February 29, 2020) – Today, Ivory Innovations announced the Top 25 finalists for the 2021 Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability . Now in its third year, the Ivory Prize is an annual award...

Smart Machines: AI technology’s impact on Florida’s business sectors.

Artificial intelligence hasn’t quite replaced humans, but the technology is making business better. AI can’t replace humans, but the technology is making inroads in more and more business sectors. In an oft-quoted interview with Life magazine in 1970, Marvin Minsky, an MIT researcher and pioneer in artificial intelligence, predicted that...

30 Catalizadoras Globales que te inspirarán este 2021

HER GLOBAL IMPACT conversó con cada una de ellas y les consultó respecto a su propósito y sueños. Te invitamos a conocerlas y conectarte con sus historias. Son mujeres que cuentan con el desarrollo de proyectos sólidos que marcan claras tendencias en mercados emergentes y algunos ya maduros. No tienen...

Building the Foundation of Foundation Building | Olivia Ramos at Deepblocks

In part one of our conversation with Olivia Ramos, she told us about the complicated real estate development problems that led her to found Deepblocks. In part two of our conversation, she discusses the process she undertook in acquiring funding for her company, and some insights on where she sees...

The High Rise Digitize | Olivia Ramos at Deepblocks

New shopping centers and housing projects seem to rise as perennially as spring flowers. But these developments require a complex and fragmented chain of information between workers, brokers, analysts, and developers that makes each project exceedingly challenging. Olivia Ramos, with master’s degrees in architecture and real estate development, found that...

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...