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The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. Members pay annual dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership opportunities, events and more.For years, the real estate industry had lacked the data necessary to drive informed business decisions. Data is often fragmented, incomplete, or nonexistent, making it difficult for landlords and real estate professionals to analyze trends, forecast market shifts, and optimize their operations. Our research at RentRedi showed us that 90% of our landlords previously used pen and paper or spreadsheets to manage their rental properties before adopting our software, giving them little access to helpful data.With the adoption of centralized platforms like ours and other real estate technologies, data collection is skyrocketing. Investors, real estate agents, and property managers are adopting technologies that streamline operations, and in the process, those platforms are generating vast amounts of data that can be used to provide deep insights into market behaviors that benefit the landlords providing it. This data revolution presents an unprecedented opportunity for real estate businesses to make smarter, data-driven decisions, reduce risk, and drive growth.By understanding where real estate data comes from, overcoming data overload, and strategically harnessing information, real estate agents and investors can significantly improve operations and drive business growth.How to harness data and use it to your advantageWhether you sell, buy, or manage real estate, data plays a crucial role in providing opportunities for you to make more informed decisions. Effectively utilizing real estate data can lead to improved business operations and increased profitability.Rental property owners, for instance, can leverage data insights to increase on-time rent collection, get better tenants, minimize evictions, reduce vacancies, and streamline property maintenance. Insights can also help establish better operating procedures, such as utilizing 5-pronged tenant screening processes (comprehensive background checks, credit reports, criminal reports, eviction reports, and income and asset verification) to identify high-risk tenants or adjusting lease terms to encourage on-time payments.Running surveys to gather customer feedback can help owners improve understanding of renters needs and what matters most to them. Real estate agents can use the feedback to enhance their communication skills, property showing process, and negotiation strategies, leading to an upgraded overall client experience, more referrals, and repeat business. Likewise, gathering tenant feedback helps property owners understand what matters most to their customers, allowing them to enhance tenant satisfaction and retention.Finally, using a property management system that consolidates, categorizes, and analyzes data will streamline processes, and ensure easy access to critical information, so focus can remain on the most relevant metrics and trends.Specific applications of real estate dataRental property investors can leverage property management software to implement innovative solutions that benefit themselves and their tenants. For example, we analyze data to identify trends, providing it back in usable formats to improve real estate businesses.Turning data from insight into actionable guidance is key. If data reveals that renters using autopay pay rent on time 99% of the timeas opposed to an 88% on-time payment rate for those who dontyou know to offer your tenants (and advise them to set up) automatic payments to avoid missed or late payments and resulting late fees and penalties.Likewise, data may show that landlords are likely to see a 13% jump in on-time rent payments when using a credit boost feature to report on-time payments to credit bureaus, which also helps renters establish credit and raise their existing credit scores. With this information, landlords can consider offering that service to tenants. These actionable insights strengthen the landlord-tenant relationship.Where to find data sourcesTo leverage data to improve your real estate business, you need to know where to find it. Real estate data comes from a wide variety of sources: from public records and market reports to proprietary databases and tenant interactions.To effectively mine real estate data, professionals should start by identifying key data sources relevant to their operations. For example, public records, MLS listings, and property tax assessments provide valuable market insights, while customer surveys and online reviews reveal tenant and investor sentiment.Property listings and market transactions provide data on property sales prices, listing durations, vacancy rates, and location-based demand, as well as demographic data such as neighborhood trends, population growth, and urban development. This type of data provides valuable insights into property valuation and investment opportunities.In the rental industry, tenant applications and tenant screening provide data on income, employment history, credit scores, and rental behavior, which aids in risk assessment. Meanwhile, tracking rent payments reveals payment patterns that help landlords and property managers optimize rent collection strategies.Building performance and maintenance logs also provide helpful data, especially IoT sensors and smart building technologies that track energy usage, maintenance needs, and occupancy trends, allowing for sustainability and cost reduction planning.The challenges of too much dataSimply having access to this data isnt enoughits crucial to know how to extract meaningful insights from it. Data can be a powerful tool, but the sheer volume of information available can be overwhelming, particularly while simultaneously managing properties and/or growing your portfolios.Too much data can slow decision making. Organizing, interpreting, and applying the data in beneficial ways for your businesses takes time, is difficult, and can lead to analysis paralysis if done manually. Besides, raw data is not always actionable. Thats why its important to utilize analytical tools and dashboards to translate complex datasets into visual reports that make patterns and trends easily digestible and understandable.Final wordsThe growing availability of real estate data presents both challenges and opportunities. Collecting and analyzing data from diverse sources provides professionals across the real estate industryfrom landlords to large-scale developerswith the ability to make better decisions regarding investment, property improvements, and customer satisfaction.Adopting data-driven solutions can lead to greater efficiency, improved business relationships, and increased profitability. By centralizing information, leveraging analytics, and implementing smart policies, real estate investors can harness the power of data to transform their businesses in an increasingly digital world.Ryan Barone is cofounder and CEO of RentRedi.

At first glance, what appears to be a hilly, forested landscape is, in fact, a newly designed natural history museum by the renowned Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). This eco-friendly structure, primarily built from wood, features a design that enables visitors to explore its elevated form by walking over it. The Hungarian Natural History Museum is set to be located within the Great Forest on the outskirts of Debrecen, Hungarys second-largest city.Designer: Bjarke Ingels GroupThe museum will span an impressive 23,000 square meters (nearly 250,000 square feet) and is ingeniously designed to resemble a manmade hill. This architectural marvel will consist of three overlapping ribbons, each adorned with lush greenery, creating a seamless blend with the natural environment. The design allows visitors to stroll across the top, allowing them to take in breathtaking views of the surrounding landscape.From a structural standpoint, the building will mostly feature timber, chosen for its sustainability and aesthetic appeal. The facade will be crafted from charred wood, adding a unique texture and durability to the exterior. The structure will also be partially embedded into the ground, enhancing its integration with the terrain and contributing to its energy efficiency. This thoughtful design minimizes the buildings environmental footprint and also enhances the visitor experience by connecting them more intimately with nature.Constructed from mass timber, the building features a facade of locally sourced charred timber panels that emerge from the ground, blurring the lines between architecture and wilderness, said Hanna Johansson, partner at BIG. The museum draws on the thermal mass of the ground and integrates on-site energy systems, including geothermal loops and photovoltaic panels, to ensure a stable indoor climate year-round. Rather than simply preserving the site, the building restores and enhances it regenerating biodiversity while quietly adapting to its surroundings.The interior design of the museum is reminiscent of BIGs innovative Plus furniture factory, showcasing the exquisite natural beauty of wood throughout its spaces. The design makes excellent use of this material, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere. At the heart of the museum lies a spacious reception hall, which serves as a central hub for visitors, providing them with access to the various surrounding exhibition wings.Above this central area, visitors will find a thoughtfully designed library and a restaurant, offering a serene environment for reading and dining with views of the natural surroundings. These upper-level spaces are intended to enrich the cultural and social experience of the museum. The lower levels are dedicated to more interactive and educational activities, featuring a variety of workshops, play spaces, and research labs. These facilities are designed to engage visitors of all ages, fostering a deeper understanding and appreciation of natural history and science. The thoughtful arrangement of these diverse spaces ensures that the museum caters to a wide range of interests and activities, making it a dynamic and enriching destination.The post Bjarke Ingels Group Unveils Eco-Friendly Museum With Walkable Green Roof & Sustainable Design first appeared on Yanko Design.

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On April 4, 1975, two childhood friends, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, started what is today one of the worlds leading technology companies. Inspired by the January cover of Popular Electronics magazine, they created Microsoft (then Micro-Soft, referring to microprocessors and software) to develop software for the Altair 8800, one of the first personal computers on the market.Half a century later, and after establishing its operations center in Redmond, Washington, in 1986, the company has diversified its activity, from Windows operating systems to the cloud and the video game industry, reaching a present dominated by artificial intelligence (AI). In the stock market where it listed in March 1986 it has always occupied the top positions on the Nasdaq, where it is known as one of the magnificent seven along with other major players in the digital landscape.Throughout these five decades it has only had three global CEOs: Bill Gates himself, Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella, in an industry accustomed to the constant dance of names. But in that time it has acquired and merged with hundreds of companies, including Hotmail, Nokias mobile devices division, and more recently Skype, GitHub, Linkedin and Activision Blizzard, the latter, related to gaming, being the most expensive at $68.7 billion.But lets look back to some of the earliest milestones in the development of the organization. In 1980, Gates and Allen signed an agreement to provide an operating system for IBMs first personal computer. After presenting its MS-DOS PC in 1981, Windows came along in 1985 and, by the end of the decade, it was already the most recognized software brand on the planet. The first version of Microsoft Office arrived around that time, the productivity suite that today, under the Microsoft 365 brand, is used by more than 1.5 billion people.One of the first images of the Microsoft team, TAKEN shortly after its founding. In the bottom row are Bill Gates (left) and Paul Allen (right).MicrosoftDuring the 1990s, Bill Gates vision of the potential of the World Wide Web led to the integration of the companys products and services into the network and the creation of one of the most famous browsers in the digital world, Internet Explorer. Gates has become one of the leading gurus of the computer industry and his thinking has permeated the world through numerous lectures, public appearances and published books. In 1995 he set out a roadmap for the IT revolution in his first major text, The Road Ahead. Of the changes to come, he told Time magazine in a 1997 interview, People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didnt they? That year he created the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to address health and education issues of our time.The arrival of the new century crowned a new CEO, Steve Ballmer. Gates stepped back to let the companys first business manager continue with his strategy. Through 2013 Ballmer laid the first stones of the companys video game business with the launch of the Xbox game console, and of the cloud with the 2008 launch of Azure. It was in 2011 that Office made the leap to the cloud with Office 365, and the company too a further step in collaboration with the purchase of the Skype video calling tool. In Ballmers final years in charge the Surface line of tablets emerged.Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer during a meeting in the 1990s.MicrosoftIn 2014 comes the Satya Nadella era, characterized by a hitherto unknown acceleration of the technology industry around the planet. It stands out for the consolidation of cloud business and video games while introducing new trends, such as AI. Along the way, Windows 10, the purchase of LinkedIn, GitHub, the launch of Teams, which became the fastest growing application for the company, and the strong investment in OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. His great achievement, perhaps, is to take Microsoft to a market value of $3 trillion dollars by 2024 thanks to this strategy. But it was in 2015 that he turns the technology around with a new corporate mission: To empower every person and everyorganization onthe planet to achieve more through IT.Today, Nadella leads a company of 228,000 employees spread across more than 190 countries. Supplied Art (with Permission)Paco Salcedo, head of the companys Spanish subsidiary, says, The most relevant learning in these 50 years is to have gone from believing we were a company that knew everything to wanting to become a brand that wants to learn everything. And, if we look to the future, we believe that AI can enable the next billion jobs in all parts of the economy.A marathon journeyReviewing this trajectory, Foundry consultant Fernando Maldonado says the company has adapted to change. You have to know how to rise to disruptions in time, he said, noting the companys entry into the cybersecurity sector under the premise that without protection there is nothing when hardly anyone understood this need. Also, the companys switch to embrace open source, even before its acquisition of GitHub. At the beginning, open source was the enemy and, today, we can say that it also knew how to adapt. [] A lot of its software is already open source.All this gives you an idea that it has always been able to react in time to macro-trends, Maldonado said. Although, he added, the company has taken several hits, inevitable for a company that has been around for half a century, such as the flop of the Bing search engine. If it hadnt had any friction, we wouldnt be talking about its achievements, he says. But it has worked on a very solid foundation with Office, which is the anchoring of all types of companies.Now, it remains to be seen how it fares in the still very young world of AI, with the billion-dollar investments it is making, although there is some slowdown in terms of data centers. In any case, says the analyst, it is also making a very strong bet on the future.Nadellas reflection regarding Microsofts anniversary is in line with the experts analysis: Ive found myself reflecting on how Microsoft has remained a consequential company decade after decade in an industry with no franchise value. And I realize that its because -time and time again, when tech paradigms have shifted- we have seized the opportunity to reinvent ourselves to stay relevant to our customers, our partners and our employees. And thats what we are doing again today, he said.

President Trump has pushed back TikTok's ban date again, saying that his administration has made "tremendous progress" on a deal to "save TikTok."Image Credit: lechenie-narkomanii on PixabayWhen Trump took office on January 20, he gave TikTok two and a half months to sell to an American company or face a nationwide ban. The ban was initially set to go into effect on April 5, but once again, Trump has pushed it back with an executive order, setting the new deadline to June 18."My Administration has been working very hard on a Deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we have made tremendous progress," President Trump posted to Truth Social on Friday. "The Deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed, which is why I am signing an Executive Order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days." Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Gary (John Gries) on the hit TV show White Lotus lives in a now rentable eight-suite luxury villa inPhuket's Cape Yamu. TheVilla Amaravida is part of Phuket's Luxury Signature hamlets and rents for a hefty price (between $5,698 to $13,650 per night). Its amenities include multiple sport courts, three pools, and two rooftop jacuzzis. Guests will have access to a man-made beach and otherhigh-end features, such as a golf driving range. Architecturally, it has been described as "Scandinavian minimalism with traditional Thai flair." (h/t House Beautiful)We also featured the Thomas Phifer-designedTaghkanic House that starred on Season 2 ofSeverance and is rentable via Airbnb.