Brave New Real Estate

This episode features an interview with Jon Staff, founder and CEO of Getaway, which places cabin rentals nestled in nature, offering escapes from almost all major US metropolitan cities today. Getaway has grown to include more than 15 outposts across the country since its inception in 2015. We discuss the evolution of the tiny home lifestyle, designing physical space for wellness, and how Covid propelled his vision into the spotlight, and what the future holds for the firm.

This episode features a conversation with Albert Hill, the co-founder of The Modern House, a Real Estate agency specializing in helping sell the UK's best design-led homes. We discuss their creative and editorial approach to building a brand, the launch of their new spinoff agency, Inigo, and pandemic's effects on residential real estate.

This episode features an interview with Sophie & Frank Christensen Egelund, respective co-owner and president of Vipp, the 82-year-old Danish design brand. From its 1939 origins, with the iconic pedal bin, Vipp has evolved into a lifestyle design company, complete with modular kitchens, furniture, and a series of immersive hotels and experiences. We discuss the company's origins, how its design ethos guides its product design and a philosophy for living. What the opportunities are in applying these principles to a US market, and how they are building out their company to extend to new immersive and experience-based projects.

In this episode of Brave New Real Estate, we talk to restaurateur Dario Wolos about Tacombi, the Mexian eatery he first launched from the back of a VW van in Playa del Carmen. Tacombi has since expanded to 16 unique restaurants in the US, including New York, Miami and Washington, D.C., and boasts a fast growing CPG business. We'll discuss how COVID-19 affected his operations and outlook, how experiential restaurants can adapt to a takeout model, and what the lessons he learned from the pandemic might signal for the future of dining.

In this episode, we talk to developer Tony Cho about his new mission-driven organization, the Future of Cities. With his roots in Miami commercial real estate as the founder of Metro 1. Cho has built eco-retreats and revitalized neighborhoods like Wynwood and Little Haiti in Miami. We discuss regenerative cities, sustainable rewilding, and how to work with local communities to create strong places that last.

This episode features a conversation with entrepreneur and urban technologist Colin O'Donnell, whose van-living mobile community, Kibbo, offers up a new way to live and work. For less than the cost of a big-city studio apartment—1,000 dollars—Kibbo members are given access to community hubs in Ojai, Big Sur, Zion, and Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, as well as urban centers across the West Coast. We’ll talk to Colin about his company’s origins, why a background in technology lends itself to real estate, and how the Coronavirus might continue to impact how we live in the future, perhaps for the better.

This episode explores our changing ideas around luxury and what this shift means for real estate. Instead of high-end, designer goods for individual ownership and status, new luxury values— community, quality of life, and interest in Wellness could reshape our dwellings, developments, and cities in the future. We’ll look at recent reports and data surrounding Wellness in architecture and how the pandemic offers an opportunity to elevate luxury for everyone—from the lowest to the highest-income renters and buyers.

This episode features an interview with architect Drew Lang about his 26-home development, Hudson Woods. Lang offers a model for a new style of development, one that puts a premium on sustainability and natural living at a time when many homebuyers are looking for communities outside the urban center. Lang discusses what it is that made Hudson Woods so successful—and what that success might mean for future rural residential developments.

This episode explores two of the biggest side effects of the COVID 19 pandemic.

The acceleration of remote work and the migration of city dwellers to less dense places and what that means for design, communication, and the new stories we need to tell.