The Antony Slumbers Podcast

The office real estate industry is set to be transformed.    In the world of work and the workplace there is a fundamental misunderstanding going on. Many people are talking about changes to how we work, post pandemic, as being merely an acceleration of trends that were already underway. They are not. In fact, we are witnessing the start of a revolution that will utterly transform the dynamics of the industry.

Why the real estate industry needs to stop kidding itself about what is possible with #NoOffice.

Every company needs talented, skilled people. Over the years companies try to employ more and more talented, skilled people, that fit their requirements, business model and working practices. They continually optimise for the market they are in, particularly the larger ones. They become more and more efficient, more and more ‘Six Sigma’ - lean, mean business machines. And it works. Or at least it does right up until the moment it does not.

Coronavirus has hijacked the stage. This years play in real estate was going to be ‘Climate Change and Sustainability’ but now it’s ‘Covid-19, all the way down’.

First published as a blog post for the British Property Federation - 2nd April 2020. https://www.bpf.org.uk/media-listing/blog-posts/work-workplace-and-covid-19

This decade is going to be transformational for real estate, globally, and the PropTech community must rise to the occasion. Technically, culturally, organisationally and financially we are going to see huge change, and the PropTech community has to not only be part of that change, but to frame and define it. Number 1 of a series of articles being curated by Propel by MIPIM throughout 2020. https://blog.mipimworld.com/proptech/5-dimensions-real-estate-2020/

A recent conversation with a large retailer went like this: ‘The market is tanking, opening up some real buying opportunities, do you want to get involved with a distressed asset fund we are putting together?’ ‘Are you kidding? We are murdering our Landlords on rents, there is no way we’d buy any retail real estate’. From October 2019 Visit antonyslumbers.com for more

5 decades of Moore’s Law (which states that computing power doubles every 18 months) means that in the 2020’s we will experience change at a pace that makes the current decade seem positively sluggish. A Trinity of Transformation, involving more data, more compute power and more advanced algorithms is underway. And this will have consequences, for us personally, and for the companies we all work for. How we live, work and shop will change, perhaps radically.

How Real Estate will finally join the 21st century This post was first published by PlaceTech - https://placetech.net/analysis/tokenise-funds-not-assets-says-oxford-said-business-school/

The 2010s were about efficiency in the workplace. If we are smart, the 2020s will be about effectiveness.