Posts tagged Technology
Waterfront Report 2018/2019

Summer is just around the corner and with that, comes waterfront season. RSIR has released a comprehensive analysis of 15 months of waterfront sales, from January 2018 through March 2019.

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Using Data to Produce Better Results in Luxury Real Estate

Real estate has been — and will always be — an industry that requires a personal touch. This human interaction will persistently be a critical component in the success of a sale. But as technology advances, the best agents will capitalize on data available to them to inform their decisions and use this as a tool to leverage properties.

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Amazon Ends Search for HQ2 with Selection of Two New Corporate-Headquarter Cities

It’s been over a year since Amazon first announced it was expanding into a second headquarters location and now the wait is finally over. The list of finalists announced in January has been narrowed down to not one, but two locations: Long Island City in New York and Crystal City in Virginia. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the e-commerce giant has indicated they’ll split operations evenly between the two locations, “with as many as 25,000 employees in each” area.

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Design Outlook: 2019 Color Trends

We are into the thick of autumn now and before we know it, we’ll be ringing in 2019. A new year always hearkens in a fresh set of design trends and Elle Décor recently composed a list of their top fifteen trends for the coming year. While 2018 “was all about bringing an edgier palette into the home,” editors at Elle Décor say 2019 will take “a more mindful, lifestyle-based approach to the development of new shades.” Below, we’ve outlined the six colors we’re most excited about from Elle Décor’s list.

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Is Tech Seattle’s Best Solution to Pressing Issues?

In early August, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced the formation of the Innovation Advisory Council (IAC), a collective of representatives from the region’s top technology companies aimed to assist “with the development of data-driven and technological approaches to address our city’s most urgent issues, including homelessness and transportation mobility.” As a statement released by the mayor’s office outlines, there are over 60,000 software developers in the region, representing the largest employment sector in the region.

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Self-Driving Cars in the Emerald City?

As a recent Seattle Magazine article describes, drivers in Kirkland “may have noticed a Lexus RX suburban utility vehicle with a black rooftop dome traversing local streets” that is unlike other cars, because while it has someone sitting in the driver’s seat, their hands are far from the wheel. That’s because Kirkland is one of three U.S. cities that is currently allowing companies to test self-driving cars, “to see if hundreds of split-second decisions instinctively made by a human driver can be replicated by an onboard system of sensors and computers.”

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