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10Dec
2018

Equinox fitness clubs in Los Angeles

We’ve created a growth map for Equinox fitness clubs in Los Angeles, showing locations each year from 2002 to 2018. You can view the GIF (movie) below.

Between 2002 and 2018, Equinox went from 0 to 11 fitness clubs in Los Angeles. Based on the map and our knowledge of Los Angeles, we would predict that their next opening would be in Mar Vista or Sawtelle. There is also the possibility that this market is now fully saturated; we would investigate this question with an analysis of membership at Equinox’s fitness clubs and a study of their competitors’ capacity using mobile data geofencing.

16Nov
2018

November 16, 2018: Here are the priciest real estate markets in the world

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Written by Inman News’ Gabriela Barkho. Published on Inman on November 16th, 2018.

This month, consulting firm Webster Pacific partnered with New World Wealth, a market research firm that focuses on wealth data, to release the top property indexes of where the priciest real estate markets are in the U.S. and internationally.

The firms tracked a few key apartments in major cities in prime, upscale neighborhoods. Here are the “Top 10 US cities/towns ranked by the dollar rate per square meter,” collected in June 2018:

New York City : $34,000
Pebble Beach, Monterey: $21,000
Los Angeles: $14,000

*You can read the rest of the article on Inman News, via this link.

31Oct
2018

OCTOBER 31, 2019: NW GIS CONFERENCE – COMBINING DISPARATE DATASETS TO GET THE DATA YOU NEED

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Steve presented at the NorthWest GIS User Conference on the topic of combining disparate datasets in Bremerton, WA on October 31, 2018.

Abstract: Do you ever struggle to find the exact GIS data that you want? Do you get frustrated that available datasets aren’t granular enough or are redacted in a way that isn’t actionable? We live in the Big Data revolution, so why should we give up if we don’t find the exact GIS data that we are looking for? In this session, we will explore the idea that to get the GIS data you want, one dataset, you may need to employ and combine multiple datasets. To demonstrate this, we have a case study on enhancing international wealth and demographic data, although this approach can apply to any GIS dataset and to any GIS industry.

*You can read the rest of the abstract, here.

03Oct
2018

HNWI Wealth Maps – Hong Kong

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Hong Kong is one of the wealthiest places in the world. As part of our new High Net Worth Individual (HNWI) data product, we’ve built a GIF (movie) which shows the levels of wealth concentration in Hong Kong.

28Aug
2018

Site Strategy – Soul Cycle Manhattan

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As a follow-up to our Whole Foods Manhattan study, we’ve created a growth map for SoulCycle in Manhattan. To visualize this, we created a GIF (movie) of SoulCycle locations each year from 2005 to 2018, which you can view below.

SoulCycle has gone from 0 to 17 studios in Manhattan in the last 13 years. As of today, 41% of the Manhattan population and 66% of households earning $200k or more live within a 15-minute walk of a SoulCycle studio. Based on the map and our knowledge of New York, we would predict that their next openings would be in Hudson Yards, the Lower East Side and the southern part of Harlem.

09Jul
2018

Site Strategy – Whole Foods in Manhattan

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Webster Pacific tracks Whole Foods store locations in markets around the world to better understand retail site selection and in-market wealth. Between 2001 and 2017, Whole Foods has gone from 0 to 10 stores in Manhattan. As of today, 70% of the Manhattan population and 88% of households earning $200k or more live within a 10-minute drive of a Whole Foods store.

To see this “assault on Manhattan,” we created a GIF (movie) of Whole Foods locations each year from 2000 to 2018, which you can view here:

20May
2018

Property Price Prediction Maps

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Webster Pacific has been working on Property Price Prediction Maps in markets across the United States. These maps provide our prediction, based upon geospatial wealth-change calculations, of where property prices will increase. Below, you will find maps of Manhattan, Miami, and LA, and you can find the map of San Francisco here.

Manhattan

NY PPP Map_v1

Miami

Miami PPP Map_v3

Los Angeles

LA PPP Map_v2

20Feb
2018

Webster Pacific Speaking at Conference – Assessment Dashboards

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Since 2015, Webster Pacific has developed a series of Assessment Dashboards for a private school client. These dashboards identify students’ progress to be used by teachers as well as classroom and school-wide progress to be used by school leadership.

Webster Pacific’s Daniel Saniski will be co-presenting on the topic of Assessment Dashboards at the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) conference in Atlanta on March 8th at 8:00 am. The presentation is called Mission-Driven Data Visualization: Compelling Dashboards That Transform Student Learning in Real Time.

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23Oct
2017

October 23, 2017: Market Selection Analytics – Choosing a National Strategy

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Written by Webster Pacific Consultant Steve Bazant. Published by Propmodo on October 23rd, 2017.

Recently, I was sitting down with a contact who works at a premier commercial real estate (CRE) investment company with a nation-wide portfolio. We were discussing his national portfolio and the types of markets in which the company usually invests. At one point during our conversation, he said something that struck me: “Our current strategy is to only invest in sunbelt markets.” His reasoning here was that these markets are “up and coming”. I knew that this contact had huge success in the world of CRE, but I found myself thinking, what does “up and coming” even mean? How do you prove that? How could a national investment strategy be the southern half of the entire country?

23May
2017

May 23, 2017: Using Data-Driven Location Analytics to Guide Commercial Real Estate Investments

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Written by Webster Pacific Consultant Steve Bazant. Published by Propmodo on May 23rd, 2017.

My father, a seasoned commercial real estate broker, always told me that real estate is about “location, location, location.” While working in his office as teenager, I can remember hearing brokers arguing loudly about which neighborhoods were up and coming, what the residents were like, and where the most money could be made. After working in the consulting industry for several years, my company, Webster Pacific, has embarked on an analytical journey to better quantify “location, location, location.” To educate our clients, we have taken our own, novel approach to location analytics.

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