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Digital transformation is changing the real estate industry. New technology is adding value to the customer experience – customers as occupiers and users of buildings and cities.
Key players from across the real estate sector are joining the revolution; they are interacting with the world of technology and looking to forge a common language.
The primary goal of our specially commissioned content from leading experts is to help these real estate players understand and experience how to implement technological innovations in their own business models. It is also about showing them how new technology is reshaping their customers’ needs.

by Yodit Stanton

Today's workforce is rapidly changing with people being more connected than ever before. Employees expect to have a choice of where to work, whether from home or in offices that provide spaces for different types of work modes as standard. Most organisations are adapting work practices such as activity based working but the challenge still remains 'how much space do I need and how do I use the space I have effectively?'.

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by Chungha Cha

Data is crucial for the success of both proptech & smart cities. But, why?

First of all, kudos to Propel By MIPIM and all the readers for this opportunity to share our research and views on the intersection of propel and smart cities.  We hope that together, we can all become better experts in connecting the dots from propel … to better buildings … to smarter, greener cities.

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by Faisal Butt

Consumer data paints a gloomy picture for the retail sector, not just in Britain, but across the developed world. Stores are quick to blame e-commerce for the death of bricks-and-mortar stores. But could digital technologies end up saving the high street rather than killing it?
The latest consumer data from the Office for National Statistics makes concerning reading for commercial landlords. Sales fell 0.5% in May, with department stores, often key tenants, suffering a dramatic 4.5% drop in sales. 

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by Antony Slumbers

In this series of articles, we have been discussing the fundamental changes taking place, in technology, society and the built environment. Often grouped under the heading of ‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution’, they represent an epochal change. Klaus Schwab, who coined the term, says ‘we live in a time of great promise and great peril’, where the digital, biological and physical world is being merged. 
In this final article I’d like to provide 10 takeaways that distill the key trends, drivers, mindsets and opportunities we have worked through.

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by Antony Slumbers

There is a ‘Trinity of Transformation’ underway, involving massive increases in the data we have available to us, the scale of the computing power at our disposal and significant advances in Artificial Intelligence, especially around the sub-set of Deep Learning. Combined, this Trinity is remodeling how we work, live and play.

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by James Morris-Manuel from Matterport

Smart buildings are a key element in the future of the real estate, the physical output of the shift occurring in the sector. Smart buildings are essentially an ecosystem within a physical asset, underpinned by connectivity, whereby different technologies can ‘talk’ to each other in order to respond to various needs.

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by Louise Ellison from Hammerson

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly moving from research labs to real-world applications.  Harnessing AI's power for energy management of commercial buildings is just one potential benefit. 


 

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