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Real Estate
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Reventure App: Real Estate Market Intelligence
Reventure is a real estate data analytics platform providing market insights for investors and homebuyers — visualizing price trends, affordability, and market dynamics across US markets. Data-driven real estate analysis accessible to individual investors.
Zillow Did Not Have Metallic Balls
Steve Buccini's post-mortem on Zillow Offers dissects why Zillow's iBuying program failed — they were making a market in illiquid assets with a flawed pricing model and no mechanism to cut losses. A case study in the difference between algorithmic pricing and actual market-making discipline.
How High Will San Francisco Rent Go? These Data Analysts May Have the Answer
PandoDaily's 2014 coverage of data analysts using rental listing data to forecast San Francisco rent trends — at the peak of the Bay Area housing crisis. An early example of applying data science methods to the hyperlocal problem of predicting neighborhood-level rent.
With $2,000 Bikes, Tech Firms Flee Suburbs for City Homes
Bloomberg piece on tech companies relocating from suburban campuses to urban offices in 2012, attracting talent that preferred city living over suburban tech campuses. A snapshot of how San Francisco's tech scene was reshaping the city's geography and economy.
The Pendulum Has Swung: San Francisco Office Market 2012
42Floors' 2012 blog post arguing that the San Francisco office market had shifted decisively back to landlord-friendly conditions after the post-2008 tenant's market — tech companies' rapid expansion had absorbed available inventory and pricing power had flipped. A snapshot of the SF tech boom's impact on commercial real estate.