The real estate industry is undergoing its first wave of digital disruption, and understanding how technologies can transform the built environment is a critical asset to real estate professionals. It is especially helpful to investors, occupiers and academic...
The global debate surrounding climate change has prompted investors, policy-makers, and corporations to consider using buildings as a means to achieve sustainability. In fact, buildings account for approximately 40 percent of the consumption of raw materials an...
Our third and final research symposium of the MIT Center for Real Estate’s Summer Seminar Series took place on August 27, 2020. The Real Estate Innovation Lab hos...
The internet has increasingly become an essential infrastructure that keeps our shared reality running. Throughout the Covid 19 pandemic, the overall use of the internet has spiked: Vodafone’s internet usage has surged by up to 50% in some...
While research shows that green buildings cost more overall, earlier research depicts that green commercial buildings still sell at a premium. Yet, ...
Little is known about how firms change energy consumption over time. Yet, to meet global climate change targets, understanding how changes in firm investment ...
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...