Real Estate Innovation Lab

May 12 2020

Location, Location, Experience Creation: The Market Dynamics & Financial Impacts of Experiential Retail

Over the past two decades, the U.S. retail sector has undergone an enormous transfor...

May 08 2020

Register for the MIT Data Science in Real Estate class

Real estate is changing to be more responsive to the health, vibrancy and resiliency...

May 06 2020

Green Building Has a Strong Business Case

Buildings and construction represent 39% of global carbon emissions. Although the environmental benefits of green buildings seem indispu...

May 04 2020

The Value of Design in Asset Pricing

Does design contribute to real estate value? Practicing architects are confronted with defending the value of both functional and aesthetic building needs, such as daylight, views, geometry and spatial contextuality. Real estat...

Apr 21 2020

Pets of The Tech

Greg the Persian cat is the mascot for the MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab. He was recently featured in The Tech for his hard work during the course of the pandemic, inspiring his lab team and helping to keep up morale. He is currently ...

Mar 08 2020

Automation in Real Estate: A Primer on Smart Buildings and Digital Twins

The MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab and EY are taking part in an educational webinar series on the topic of Automation. The third of four webinars featured M...

Mar 02 2020

Rents are the Same for Co-working Providers and Traditional Tenants

Traditional office deals and cow...

Feb 14 2020

(un)Real Estate: Exploring the Value of Virtual Real Estate

Online games have become a dominant cultural form, social space, and market for millions of people. There are over 2.2 billion gamers in the world and a subset of them are buying and...

Nov 20 2019

The Financial Impacts of Coworking: Rental Prices and Market Dynamics in the Commercial Office Market

This paper aims to understand a fundamental relationship in the business of coworking: the buildi...

Nov 12 2019

The Value of Daylight in Office Spaces

The presence of natural light in indoor spaces improves human health, well being, and productivity - do the social benefits of daylight translate into economic value as measured by what office tenants are willing to pay? Th...

Oct 28 2019

The Price of Innovation: An Analysis of the Marginal Cost of Green Buildings

While research shows that green buildings cost more overall, earlier research depicts that green commercial buildings still sell at a premium. Yet, ...

How much does it cost to build a green building?

Sep 24 2019

Automation in Real Estate – Cutting Through the Hype

What if we talked about automation and its impacts on real estate and the built environment without all the hype? Dr. Andrea Chegut, Director of the MIT Real Estate Innovation ...

Sep 19 2019

IREM’s Innovator-in-Residence: ‘Don’t Fear Tech; Embrace It’

James Scott, Lead researcher at the MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab and newly appointed Innovator-in-...

Jul 03 2019

Wework: The ‘Hypothetical’ Company at the Heart of the Property Market

WeWork founder Adam Neumann’s business approach and model for the multi-billion dollar co-working co...

Jun 20 2019

Automated Financial Modeling for Urban Design

MIT’s Real Estate Innovation Lab is developing computational frameworks that integrate architectural and urban design into financial econometric methods, in order to automatically calculate real estate p...

Jun 01 2019

Automation Impacts on the Built Environment

The MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab and EY are taking part in an educational webinar series on the topic of Automation. The first of four webinars featured MIT REIL Director Dr. Andrea Chegut, EY Global Real Estate...

May 02 2019

Houston’s entry-level housing snatched up by institutional buyers driven by data

Data is changing the real estate game everywhere and especially in housing. In this Houston Chronicl...

Apr 28 2019

Energy Performance and Capital Expenditures in Manufacturing Industries

Little is known about how firms change energy consumption over time. Yet, to meet global climate change targets, understanding how changes in firm investment ...

Can firms expand and be sustainable?

Apr 09 2019

As Office Tenants Expect More Tech, Even the Windows Get Smart

Competition to provide the best technology in office...

Apr 04 2019

Classwork: Technological Change and Innovation for the Built Environment

MIT is a living laboratory of technology and innovation, which makes it an ideal setting to learn about how technology and how it evolves. This class, more ...

Apr 01 2019

Classwork: Data Science and Machine Learning for Real Estate

Core skills for development,design and planning are shifting to encompass analytics in data science and machine learning. This seven week mini-course aims to introduce you to the p...

Feb 20 2019

Value of Design in Asset Pricing

What are the drivers of a value for a building?? Current ways to understand the drivers of real estate value rely on the hedonic asset pricing model. It is a simple multi-variate framework that attempts to explain the drivers of a bui...

How can we give design agency at the financial decision making table?

Feb 19 2019

Daniel Fink’s Complex Urbanities: Digital Techniques in Urban Design published by Australia’s NSW Architects Registration Board

MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab Lead Researcher...

Feb 15 2019

An Ideas Report from the Housing Innovation Workshop

The Real Estate Innovation Lab has published the Idea Report chronicling the last two years of the Housing Innovation Workshop, produced in conjunction with the City of Boston’s Housing Innovation...

Feb 12 2019

Is Innovation Really in a Place? Venture Accelerator Program Impacts on Firm Performance

Ever wonder whether venture accelerator programs have an impact? Does it make a difference what type of program a startup fi...

Nov 16 2018

A Look at Emerging Technologies Most Likely to Impact the Commercial Real Estate Industry

The MIT lab is exploring the future of the built environment and how design and technology will affe...

, Nov 13 2018

The Value of Awarded Design in Real Estate Asset Pricing

This study investigates the financial performance of awarded architectural design for commercial office buildings in Manhattan, New York.

Nov 13 2018

Entrepreneurship @ SA+P

The Entrepreneurship Project @ MIT SA+P is a comprehensive survey of the companies initiated by members of the School of Architecture and Planning community.

Nov 13 2018

The Autonomous Future of Working in the Built Environment

We are on the cusp of a new Automation Age where companies are ever increasingly using robotics and algorithms to optimize their supply chain and carry out their business functions.These...

Nov 13 2018

Commercial Real Estate Data Platform Wide Data Share

Big Data is turning into Wide Data with the aid and resourcefulness of private sector commercial real estate technology companies

Nov 13 2018

Frontiers of Entrepreneurship

At this event, we learned from scholars in the rich and changing field of entrepreneurship. We got to present our perspective of the role of innovation being place-based and what that can mean to accelerate the economic growth

Oct 18 2018

Does Work Performance Design Impact Value? Linking Design Metrics to Financial Performance in Cities

For commercial office space, design has the potential to enhance employee productivity by developing...

Sep 26 2018

The Robots Are Coming, But Don’t Panic!

Dr. Andrea Chegut, director of MIT’s Real Estate Innovation Lab, joined EY in Sydney, Australia to discuss the role of a...

Sep 03 2018

Innovative Materials and Methods for Affordable Housing

The Real Estate Innovation Lab has published the Idea Report chronicling the las...

Jun 11 2018

Rebuilding the Supply of Affordable Housing

Solving the affordable housing crisis requires new ways of thinking. Through collaboration and innovation, we can make housing s...

May 01 2018

How MIT and JLL explore the future of the built environment

The one constant for the real estate industry throughout histor...

Apr 02 2018

Real Estate Innovation Lab Releases Research on Accelerator Programs

New research from Dr. Bokhar...

Dec 08 2017

The Atlantic: From Houses to High Rises

The median price of a home in the United States has been rising for years, and the trend is expected to continue. For an entire generation, that...

Sep 27 2017

Developing Differently: A solutions workshop for affordable housing

Housing development is not meeting current demand. Roadblocks to development stem from the number of stakeholders, mixed-incentives for project formation and complet...

Jan 01 2017

Simultaneous and Solitary Spikes: Investment in Buildings and Equipment

We study firm-level expansionary investment activities in both equipment and buildings – so-called investment spikes. Our identification strategy decomposes f...

Dec 22 2016

Sidewalk Labs Housing Affordability Tour

Dr. Andrea Chegut, director of the Real Estate Innovation Lab at MIT, presented at Sidewalk’s Idea Tour on housing affordability on De...

Dec 13 2016

Sidewalk Labs Tour: How Technology Can Help Improve Housing Affordability

At this event, we shared work on a four year multi-stakeholder project in Europe, where social housing units were designed, developed, constructed and del...

Nov 11 2016

How an MIT lab plans to build more data-driven cities

Part of the architecture school at MIT, the Real Estate Innovation lab will apply new da...