Friday, September 30, 2011

The Birth of Real Estate Science

Throughout my travels, I have noticed a change. A change residing within the Real Estate Industry. In years past, Real Estate was generally accepted as a "financial" type of industry where economics, finance, and sales concepts and methodologies have ruled.



Enter the Internet and the World Wide Web. All of sudden, Real Estate changed. It had to change because everyone went from using offline tools, calculators and spreadsheets, to using online tools such as Google Apps, the Social Web, and online banking.



Because of these changes, Real Estate was no longer just a "financial" industry, but also a "computer science" industry deeply embedded into the industry. Having realized this, I began researching this phenomenon by reading, listening, and discovering the new ways real estate users (buyers, sellers, agents, consultants, etc.) now do business.



My observations have given way to new research I call:



Real Estate Science: A New Scientific Body of Knowledge and Academic Discipline



A brief explanation and upcoming paper of what Real Estate Science is follows:



The Internet and World Wide Web have been immensely influential components on the Real Estate Industry. From the brokerage enterprise to daily salespersons' activities, computers are involved in every facet of a real estate project or transaction. With millions of mobile devices connected to the Web, the real estate industry has fully embraced the world of computing. Therefore, one can say that the Real Estate Industry has literally transformed itself from a one-dimensional financial industry into a technology dependent juggernaut overnight.



To better understand this evolution, I propose a new discipline and body of knowledge to better understand, analyze, study, and document technology related concepts so we may be able to educate future real estate users along with existing ones. This paper discusses the needs and justifications for a new academic discipline or academic field called Real Estate Science (Re-Sci). Real Estate Science will combine theories and concepts from both the Real Estate Industry and the Computer Science field, respectively. Real world use cases will be used to demonstrate why this new body of knowledge is necessary to implement and move forward into the twenty-first century and beyond.



-- Corey, "the Father of Real Estate Science"

2 comments:

  1. Hey Corey, this sounds like an really interesting concept. I totally agree that real estate has changed dramatically in recent years because of new, more powerful online technology and programs and I would be interested to see a certain rigor of standards and metrics incorporated into such things..

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  2. Hey Natalie, thank you for your comments. There's quite a bit of work to be done, however, at least we have a starting point now with Real Estate Science.

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