Brave New Real Estate

00:01:12 Getaway Origins & Ethos

00:02:54 Growth in the Pandemic

00:06:47 The Intersection of Mindfulness and Technology

00:08:52 Incorporating Wellness Into the Hospitality Industry

00:20:04 Startup Culture as Inspiration

00:22:41 The Future of Work: Remote vs. Hybrid vs. In Office 

00:32:09 Designing to Disconnect 

00:03:12      The Modern House origins and success 

00:08:27      The Modern House buyers and sellers

00:10:36      The value of good design

00:16:02      Building a different kind of real estate agency 

00:23:45      Storytelling & curation

00:28:52      Post 2020: The retreat to the rural space and nature

00:31:05      Post 2020: Distributed Offices & Remote Work

00:39:32      A return to the traditional with Inigo 

00:44:49      The future of The Modern House

00:49:11      Lessons from 15 years of The Modern House

00:01:34 Vipp Origins & Success

00:05:23 Design Ethos & Guiding Principles

00:12:08 Post Pandemic Shifts & Changes

00:14:30 From Products to Physical Experiences

00:20:23 Communication Consistency and Branding

00:22:42 Vipp & the US Market

00:39:09 Whats Next?

https://vipp.com/en/story/marie-moma-en

https://vipp.com/en/hotel

https://vipp.com/en/story/vipp-pencil-factory

https://vipp.com/en/story/vipp-studio-nyc

https://issuu.com/vippcph/docs/kitchen-book-e-pages-low?e=13565147/63938196

00:02:00 Tacombi origins and launch 

00:05:30 Visual branding & restaurant design 

00:07:50 Scaling place-specific authenticity

00:12:00 Building for a sense of place & community outreach

00:14:37 COVID-19’s impact on Tacombi

00:19:08 Productive adaptations post-pandemic  

00:23:24 The ‘ghost kitchen’ model & customer experience

00:28:08 Experimentation in hospitality   

00:31:30 In five years, what does success look like for Tacombi?

00:36:15 Plans for Tacombi expansion, new markets & places 

Tacombi.com

00:02:20 Future Cities Collective Origins 

00:06:24 Regenerative Cities 

00:10:55 The Value of Rewildling

00:12:10 Examples & Frameworks

00:17:50 Regenerative Development Process

00:25:37 Development & Community Building

00:26:53 Coronavirus & Post-Pandemic Cities

00:30:47 Cities & public/private partnership   

00:33:48 Trends & Advancements

00:39:06 How to get involved with Future Of Cities Organization 

focities.com

metro1.com

chozenretreat.com

0:01:39 Kibbo’s origins and the “Responsive City” concept 

00:09:19 Branding Kibbo, and building a #vanlife brand.

00:10:15 The difference between a smart and a responsive city

00:12:40 Making cities anywhere: new and old models

00:16:04 Marian Goodell’s lessons for Kibbo: pop-up cities

00:19:08 How kids and families fit into the Kibbo model 

00:23:23 COVID-19’s impact on Kibbo 

00:25:58 Real estate functionality of Kibbo membership platforms 

00:29:14 O’Donnell’s tech background as an influence on Kibbo

00:34:13  Kibbo in 5 years

Kibbo.com

Invest in Kibbo 

Colin O’Donnell: Freedom + Community

01:06 Defining “new luxury” 

03:15 Coldwell Banker’s report on the “New Affluent Trailblazers”

04:26 The Wellness trend and real estate

08:20 Rethinking luxury for the other 99%

09:35 New luxury innovations in low- and middle-income housing

12:04 What new luxury means for the broader real estate industry

Coldwell Banker Luxury Report

WELL Building Standard

Knight Frank 2020 Wealth Report 

Factory_OS

Common Co-Living

[9:20] On vernacular design: 

“… For us, the clear place to go was the local vernacular, the farm buildings, the barns, the sheds. … It was a matter of taking that and detailing around it, inserting all that glass to create a sense of modernity and openness to nature and differentiation from the historic buildings.”

[23:18] On branding: 

“When marketing takes on storytelling, in a genuine sense, when the people telling the stories are involved in and genuinely interested in the story that they’re a part of, and they’re inviting other people to come on the journey with them, that’s when it can work really well. ” 

[26:10] On Lang’s nontraditional development model:

“I think when some profit is given up, that’s when the anti-development comes in. It’s maybe in a sense sacrilege to give up profit if you’re a real estate developer, except is it? We don’t think it is. We think that over time,  it’s something that’s going to pay a lot of dividends, including financial dividends. There are of course environmental considerations, social considerations, considerations of aesthetics that affect one’s well being, one’s everyday experience. These are the things that we value in addition to valuing profit.”

[29:00] On COVID and urban living: 

“ … I think cities are here to stay. I just think there’s going to be more of a place for rural living and connectivity with nature, and I think it’s really exciting because it means that people are going to be living a lot better, and they’re also going to be experiencing it with some interesting architecture, and it’s going to translate into lots of interesting opportunities for people in the profession coming together with the demand that’s out there in the marketplace.”

[38:50] On advice for other nontraditional developers: 

“All you really have to have is the will. The desire and the will, and a lot of that is a willingness to stumble and to fail and to face rejection. There’s a lot of rejection that I had to face before reaching this success. Even when I was well into the process I was still stumbling and running into walls: there’s no way around it. I think it’s really exciting that there are non-developers taking on real estate development work, I think that the built environment and the consumer public is going to be very well served as a result.” 

Learn more about Lang Architecture, Hudson Woods and Brick & Wonder.

Redfin Data: https://www.redfin.com/blog/pandemic-causes-rural-suburbs-home-price-increase/

NY Post: https://nypost.com/2020/08/11/new-yorkers-flee-nyc-in-droves/

NPR, 'Zoom Towns And The New Housing Market For The 2 Americas':
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/09/08/909680016/zoom-towns-and-the-new-housing-market-for-the-2-americas

HBR, 'Do we really need an office': https://hbr.org/cover-story/2020/07/do-we-really-need-the-office
 

Morgan Stanley, 'How Work From Home May work for Investors':
https://www.morganstanley.com/ideas/coronavirus-work-from-home-trend

National Park Visitation records: https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/2019-visitation-numbers.htm

Luxry Portfolio,The Great wellness surge: https://issuu.com/turpinrealtors/docs/lpi_thegreatwellnesssurge_lr

Airbnb, August Company message: https://news.airbnb.com/work-from-anywhere-how-airbnb-guests-are-approaching-remote-working/

Real Dea, 'Only 8% of NYC back': https://therealdeal.com/2020/08/14/whos-returning-to-the-office-almost-no-one/

We Work On Demand: https://www.wework.com/workspace/on-demand
Breather: https://breather.com/
Kibbo: https://www.kibbo.com/

WSJ, 'Putting Urban commuters on Bicycles':
https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-accelerates-plans-to-put-urban-commuters-on-bicycles-11596208490

Serenbe: https://serenbe.com/
Agritopia: http://agritopia.com/
Hudson Woods: https://hudsonwoods.com/
Splinter Creek: https://splintercreekms.com/

NYT, 'Something Special is Happening in Rural America':
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/opinion/rural-america.html

NYT, 'A New Style of Country House takes root':
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/realestate/sustainable-design-hudson-valley-connecticut.html