About
The MIT Real Estate Innovation Lab is a research and development laboratory for the built environment that measures the financial and economic performance of innovation in real estate, design and planning.
The Innovation Frontier
The Value of Design
CRE Tech and Innovation
Entrepreneurship for Cities Places & People
Wide Data Experiment
Team
Our team is a community of innovators within MIT's School of Architecture and Planning. A collection of interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners from the wider real estate, financial economics, econometrics, urban planning and architecture domains.
Team Alumni
Vision
Our goal is aligned with our community, we want to build a better built environment. Our principal contribution is in identifying innovations, products and processes that will transform buildings and cities, but we pair this with performance outcomes that can give agency to technology, design and financial investors for incentive alignment.
engage
This benefits communities by enabling metrics for decision making in planning, real estate and design that can aid analytics-based design reviews, planning and investment committees to make better buildings and cities for people.
Support Us
Becoming a Lab Partner
The Lab is grateful to founding partners for their generous support. Financial support is provided by JLL, RCA and EY, who contribute funding in exchange for knowledge, receiving lab research in advance and one-on-one workshops or webinars. This provides the basis for continuous engagement in an increasingly digital and dynamic built environment.
Share Data With Us
Data is the foundation of the Lab's mission. We develop and design new infrastructure protocols for integrating data across geometry, geography, financial, economic and social data. We are grateful to our data supporters for providing fundamental data for our research and educational programs. If you would like to contribute data or learn more, please contact reilabcontact@mit.edu.
Learn With Us
Workshop
Learning is core to the Lab's research dissemination strategy. We work with lab and data partners to develop curriculum that meets their needs. However, we also work other firms, foundations and educational institutions to develop one or multi-day workshops that resolve issues. From urban data infrastructure, automation strategies to the impending building technology we are always working towards creating a better built environment. If you would like to schedule a workshop or discuss developing a program for you, please contact reilabcontact@mit.edu.
Sponsored Research
Sponsored research is an opportunity for the Lab to engage in research directly on an issue or topic relevant to you, contact reilabcontact@mit.edu to learn more.