As some readers know, I’ve been asked from time to time by members of the real estate industry to comment on the future of their industry, how technology might impact it and how open data (both the government variety, and the trend by regulators to make the industry’s data more open) may alter it. It [...]
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Real Estate as Platform: Canadian Real Estate Industry looking for developers
And Now… Another Message on Open Innovation for Realtors
Over the past few months I’ve given a number of talks on open data and open innovation to groups of realtors around the country. During these talks I have cautioned that the more the real estate industry tries to protect (e.g. not share) its data, the more it risks making access to data (control) be [...]
What Canada’s Realtors could learn from Canada’s Lawyers
Lawyers aren’t generally known to be the most technologically forwarding looking group – but here in Canada they have done one thing really, really well. Making radically efficient the transaction costs around sharing critical information regarding their industry. CanLI – the non-profit managed by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada has the goal “to [...]
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