Emerging Trends in Real Estate United States and Canada 2018

whitePaper | January 18, 2023

Blockchain enables the internet of value. The way we identify ourselves, transact, access our data and invest, will be impacted by this technology in the coming decade. Major sectors such as banking and finance have already been transformed by this revolution. The next major disruption will be real-world assets that have been brought into the blockchain that allow anyone to bypass the current investment barriers.

whitePaper | October 14, 2022

ESG is seriously lacking structure. This may not be ground-breaking news, but frustrations are not tempering any time soon. In the real estate sector specifically, a place where scrutiny is feverishly increasing, there is a real lack of consensus as to what an ESG integrated portfolio actually looks like. Sustainability strategies are stagnating, targets are not being met and there’s no uniformed approach to benchmarking as everyone is doing their own thing. That’s not to criticise organisations’ best intentions but without a uniformed approach to ESG, only confusion and apprehension will continue to remain.

whitePaper | March 23, 2022

“The real estate industry is facing numerous challenges ...” — this is often the opening sentence to current articles about the future of the industry. And indeed, the real estate industry is moving more and more into the public eye due to increasing socio-political and regulatory tasks. The tasks range from the creation of affordable living space in the housing industry and the need to adapt development models on the commercial property market to the new workplace models. In addition, those involved in the market must equally deal with the changed view of sustainability criteria, which are now summarized under the abbreviation ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance).

whitePaper | December 19, 2022

Innovation is a hot topic among lenders these days. The growing market share of non-bank lenders is putting even more pressure on traditional banks and credit unions to get the digital loan process right, both for their customers and for their own competitive futures.

whitePaper | May 31, 2022

OBI Real Estate is the world’s 1st all-in-one real estate application built on the Ethereum platform that offers 100% trust and transparency. Funded by its founders, OBI is a digital platform that will provide real estate opportunities for the real estate community via a sovereign digital ecosystem that uses machine learning and blockchain technology to provide an integrated real estate system.

whitePaper | October 24, 2022

Unsurprisingly, in ten years the sector has evolved significantly, delivering greater variety and flexibility for the customer. The sector now provides suburban homes, as well as apartments. Offers targeted at different age groups and price-points. The sector has also moved beyond a doughnut of local areas around London, to a situation where almost half of all local councils now have a BTR presence. Levelling-up is being supported as BTR reaches further into communities and provides a catalyst for regeneration.