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Exploring Edgewater's Potential for Office-to-Residential Conversions

Unveiling Conversion Opportunities in Edgewater In today's analysis, we explore the potential for transforming office spaces into residential units in Edgewater, a neighborhood distinguished by its robust economic indicators such as population growth, increasing median rent, and rising property ownership. Identifying Prime Properties for Conversion Our investigation highlights nine properties...

Leveraging Data for Strategic Office to Resi Conversions in Miami

Harnessing Zoning Data for City-Wide Analysis The capacity to leverage large-scale data, particularly zoning information, is convincingly demonstrated by its ability to assess an entire inventory of city offices. Just yesterday, we conducted a thorough review of the criteria used to determine whether office spaces are optimally suited for redevelopment,...

Introducing a Game-Changer for Live Local Act Site Selection

Announcing a New Feature Exciting News! We've introduced a pivotal feature for "Live Local Act" site selection: the ability to identify the tallest building within a one-mile radius. Using a straightforward slider, you can effortlessly filter buildings based on their height. Discovery and Integration Interestingly, while working on a different...

Deepblocks RPO - Zoning Search for Residential Development, Miami

(transcript) Introducing the search feature for multifamily development opportunities. We click the dashboard's search engine button and enter Miami, Florida. There are eight thousand parcels on the screen. Under Uses Allowed, we select multi-family housing. We adjust the search to folder properties, allowing between 100 and 200 units, with less...

TUTORIAL: Deepblocks PRO - DASHBOARD

(Matthew’s transcript) Welcome to the Deepblocks PRO. Today, our focus is the Dashboard. From your dashboard, you can: You can also start a new study in two ways: You can also access: Remember, our chat feature is always on standby. More will be revealed, Olivia. About Deepblocks: Deepblocks is state-of-the-art...

Announcing Deepblock’s Expansion into 16 New Municipalities Surrounding New York City.

We are thrilled to announce the release of 16 additional municipalities, expanding our presence in the New York City market. This allows you to delve into these cities and search for properties that align with specific development criteria. These criteria include permitted uses, allowable units, development capacity, or the total...

A Glimpse into Population Trends: Central Business District, Miami

Analyzing Population Fluctuations Over Time Our latest data dive looks at the population numbers across various tracts in Miami's Central Business District over the years. Using a time series plot, we can visualize and understand the shifts in population, revealing trends and patterns that could influence future development decisions. Interpreting...

Unlocking Potential: Identifying Underutilized Parcels for Maximum Unit Density

The Role of Unit Density in Uncovering Development Opportunities Unit Density is a valuable tool for pinpointing underutilized parcels with room for additional units. When the existing number of units is lower than the allowable limit, it indicates the potential for further development, as the parcel has yet to reach...

Decoding Unit Density: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding Residential Development Potential

Understanding Unit Density in Residential Developments Unit Density is a measure used to determine the number of allowable dwelling units on a specific parcel of land. This concept applies to multifamily, condominiums, single-family homes, and hotels. Methods for calculating units allowed are based on each city's preferred approach. Calculating Units...

The Power of Buildable Area: Deepblocks' Game-Changing Approach to Real Estate

Streamlining Site Selection with Deepblocks' Innovative Software Deepblocks is the only software on the market that enables users to filter properties across entire cities based on their total buildable area. Combined with the existing building area, it identifies properties with significant development capacity, streamlining site selection. The Importance of Buildable...

Mastering FAR: The Key to Efficient Site Selection and Property Development

Streamlining Site Selection with FAR-based Market Queries FAR (Floor Area Ratio) is a metric that indicates the maximum development capacity of a property by comparing its total floor area to the parcel size. Querying a market based on development capacity using FAR can expedite site selection processes by several months....

Balancing Risk in Property Development: By-Right vs. Conditional Uses

Mitigation and City Risk Profiles in Property Development Knowing which property uses are by-right versus conditional can help mitigate risk. It is risky if your project depends on human opinion, integrity, or fairness. We might consider a correlation between a city’s development risk and the ratio of by-right versus conditional...

Feasibility Study: Build to Rent

Perform Feasibility Analysis for Build-to-Rent (BTR) with Deepblocks PRO On March 29th, Deepblocks hosted an informative LinkedIn Live session where we demonstrated the power of Deepblocks PRO in revolutionizing the way you identify and analyze Build-to-Rent (BTR) development opportunities. Discover how this cutting-edge tool can help you efficiently select potential...

Multifamily / Build-to-Rent Demo with Deepblocks Developer

Quickly Evaluate Multifamily / Build-to-Rent Sites with New Deepblocks Developer Tool During our webinar, which was live on LinkedIn on March 15th, we explored how to evaluate highest and best use for multifamily and BTR with our latest product addition, Deepblocks Developer. Our advanced real estate development modeling software will...

Deepblocks Developer: Mixed-use development in Brooklyn, NY

Last week, Michael Covone demonstrated a feasibility study for a mixed-use project in Brooklyn using Deepblocks Developer. During the webinar, Michael showcased how to generate detailed analyses and reports for different development scenarios, including financial returns and 3D modeling. We believe that Deepblocks Developer, at $18/month, can be a game-changer...

Trading Real Estate Like Stocks: The Power of Dynamic Market Insights

Unlocking the Potential of Investment Strategy with Deepblocks PRO Deepblocks PRO is more than just zoning data - it's a platform leading the charge toward automated real estate investment. With its vast market insights, Deepblocks PRO offers a unique approach to real estate analysis, moving closer to how stocks are...

Deepblocks Developer is unique in its tailored assumptions and logic for each real estate development use.

Deepblocks Developer recognizes the unique characteristics of each development use type and incorporates a distinct set of assumptions to accommodate for this diversity. One of the most compelling aspects of Deepblocks Developer is its incorporation of assumptions and logic specifically tailored to each type of real estate development use. The...

The lightest and most comprehensive real estate development software.

Deepblocks Developer includes a comprehensive 3D modeler, advanced financial analysis capabilities, and the ability to export data in both PDF and CSV formats. Let us delve into the key features of the Deepblocks Developer, which include a comprehensive 3D modeler, advanced financial analysis capabilities, and the ability to export data...

A sophisticated software solution for comprehensive real estate development analysis.

The Deepblocks Developer offers a cost-effective solution with an array of essential real estate development tools in a single platform. During my graduate studies in real estate development, using multiple software products like Excel, SketchUp, and PowerPoint was tedious and time-consuming. It involved navigating various interfaces and manually transferring data...

Introducing Deepblocks Developer, a lighter feasibility software. 

Deepblocks Developer combines all the functionalities needed to do a back-of-the-envelope calculation for development and acquisition. Excited to introduce a new product, Deepblocks Developer, a back-of-the-envelope software combining 3D modeling, financial projections, and PDF presentations. It's equivalent to having Excel, SketchUp, and PowerPoint in an integrated workflow. All for $18/mo....

Feature Friday: Sea Level Rise Dynamic Layer - A tool for investing in coastal cities.

How the altitude of land transforms investment narratives in coastal cities. The first time I heard about climate investing was when Little Haiti, a high-altitude Miami neighborhood, began to attract investors and members of nearby communities. Simultaneously, friends in low-altitude waterfront neighborhoods, like Miami Shores, began to sell. Why is...

The Market Scanner: Instant Development Potential

Imagine asking a city, “Where can I build 80 multifamily units?” What if you can have a conversation with a city? What would you ask a city if it could respond? I would have so many questions. Deepblocks continues to grow as an interface to interact with all cities. For...

Visualization of future density: the path of an expanding downtown.

Mapping the future of density delivers the direction of a city’s growth. As a real estate developer, I’ve always wondered about the direction in which downtowns grow. Instead of skyrocketing quickly, the wrong guess might leave you waiting twenty years to see desired returns. Deepblocks digitizes zoning to see future...

StartUp innovation techniques from Silicon Valley. 

Is investment automation possible in real estate development? Over the past two weeks, I’ve shared findings from an automated, data-driven investment method. The objective is to find investment opportunities instantly and at scale to increase investment funds’ efficiency and speed. Ultimately, our fund. Why Deepblocks spent so much time digitizing...

The Densest Neighborhoods in Irving, Texas

Is it possible that the highest density doesn’t always indicate a city’s downtown district? We expected to find downtown Irving within the top five densest census tracts based on total buildable, but to my dismay, downtown Irving was not one of them. It was troublesome because we wanted a data-driven...

What caused the 2018 construction boom in Irving, Texas?

Irving, Texas, went from building an average of five million square feet per year to 60 million square feet in 2018. Did Irving, Texas, really finish 60,000,000 SF of construction in 2018? When we compared construction activity within the last ten years across Fort Worth, Dallas, Irving, Garland, and Arlington....

Comparing 50-year construction trends between Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.

Dallas and Forth Worth have inverse 50-year construction trends. How should we interpret these trend lines? According to our 50-year construction trend data, Fort Worth is increasingly bullish on new development, while Dallas is not so much. If we started the trend line in 1990, the two cities would look...

Deepblocks launches functionality to export development assumptions.

FEATURE FRIDAY With Deepblocks, you can export a CSV of the back-of-the-envelope development assumptions and integrate it into your pro forma. There is nothing like building your own real estate development pro-forma. Everyone has their flavor, from simple sketches to elaborate forty-tab masterpieces. A pro-forma is a perspective on the...

Density is the next level investment metric.

What is density, and how can we use it to identify early real estate investment opportunities? There are many ways to look at geographic data, and when we started developing a Deepblocks index for investment, we hit a few stumbling blocks. For example, when we looked for census tracts with...

Real Estate Investment Automation: Narrowing down the best neighborhoods.

We used a data-driven approach to narrow down the best neighborhoods in Fort Worth, Texas. Fort Worth, Texas, has 218 census tracts. The data we’ve considered includes population and economic growth, construction activity, existing and potential density, and an index created from all the metrics combined. Where are Fort Worth's...

How is data science different from software engineering?

The difference between data science and software engineering is often misunderstood, sometimes by engineers. A few years back, many engineers transitioned to data science when the AI craze was at an all-time high. Excited by the potential machine learning (ML), they eagerly loaded unexplored CSVs onto off-the-shelve ML models. After...

Looking for Multifamily Development Opportunities?

The easiest way to find development opportunities for multifamily is to canvass the city based on units allowed. Deepblocks has built a city-wide search in which every parcel already has all its zoning rules baked in; that way, they are searchable. Searching by units allowed is most straightforward in cities...

Why is the total buildable area the ultimate zoning value?

Total buildable area is the ultimate zoning value because it can be used to compare all parcels across a city. Total buildable area normalizes parcels and allows us to compare how much we can build, apples to apples. At the city scale, this metric gives us an instant snapshot of...

What are the goals of our cities?

What are the goals of our cities? Conserve and replenish natural environments Inclusivity and support for social interaction Attract private investments Our cities result from geometric urban design in collision with the economics of real estate development. Shaping a city is not trivial. Architects and urban planners mostly do this...

Why can’t humans predict exponential growth?

During my time at Singularity, in a lecture by Pascal Finette, I had one of my career’s most important epiphanies—humans can’t predict exponential growth. They say live in the moment, trust the process, be open-minded. That is as good as it gets, at least regarding the future. What is exponential...

What is a Smart City? A Brief Introduction

What defines a Smart City? A smart city must be self-aware, conscious, in-tuned with itself. It must be, in a way, alive. At its core lies an objective and incorruptible artificial mind that informs decision-makers and communicates directly with its citizens. And citizens speak right back in the form of...

Deepblocks opens to the public. Just in time for quarantine.

We’ve brought down our sign-up walls and are now open to the public with quite a bit of functionality. If you’d like to test real estate options for any property, now you can, at no cost. Try it here: https://bit.ly/deepblocks The free demo includes: Search for properties based on size....

Are you Afraid of AI?

As a graduate of Singularity University, I subscribe to the idea that digitization and automation promise a future of abundance. Undeniably, it will require new skill sets. From time to time, I get the feeling that I need to start learning how to code. The sooner we move towards acquiring...

Deepblocks Custom PDF: Branded Real Estate Reports

Most of what we are building today is by request of our customers. The need for custom real estate reports was heard loud and clear. I wasn’t sure what the big deal was until I looked into what it took to create a branded real estate presentation. Investors, brokers, and...

Old buildings: What is Replacement Cost?

There are good reasons to keep an older building. In this blog I will go over replacement cost and how it affects investing in existing buildings. Replacement cost is asking the questions “how much would it cost if I had to build it from scratch?”. This is important to understand...