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  • Chatting Away: Bringing Artificial Intelligence Chatbots to Real Estate

    CRETECH

    Person-to-person interaction is what sells real estate, but conversing with prospective unqualified clients drains a lot of time, energy, and money. That’s where Apartment Ocean’s latest innovation helps. Its new Chatbot is an artificial intelligence that interacts with clients just like a human agent. Users will appreciate that chatbots:Automate the initial real estate contactAre available to prospective clients 24/7Answers and questions are…

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  • Mike’s Weekly Picks: My 6 Favorite RE Tech Reads…

    Michael Beckerman

    Here are my favorite Real Estate Tech reads from this past week. Happy reading! Finally! A Different Kind Of #CRE Education.Blog – Duke LongIt started as most things do, a conversation, a suggestion, a phone call and a meeting all with my good friend Jim Baker. Getting Tech Buy-In Fr…

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  • ResiModel Rebrands as redIQ

    CRETECH

    The realization that an “add-on” feature addressed a significant need in the multifamily market inspired ResiModel, a data capture and analysis platform, to shift directions. “In our previous iteration, we provided investors and brokers with a robust financial model that helped our users generate cash flow projections that reflected the property`s expected revenue and expenses,” remarked CEO Elliot Vermes. “But in the process of providing these services, we realized that the real opportunity…

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  • StackSource: Global Finalist for Cannes 2017 After Winning MIPIM Proptech Summit

    CRETECH

    StackSource is heading to the Global MIPIM Startup Competition in Cannes, France after winning the Transaction category of the North American MIPIM Proptech Summit in New York. StackSource provides a way for commercial real estate borrowers and mortgage brokers to connect virtually, managing the entire loan origination process from selection to secured financing. The company is currently in closed beta using live prototypes. Their financial technology platform recently finished the Barclays …

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  • Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Rand Realty chooses HipPocket to improve in-brokerage networking

    HipPocket Blog

    Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Rand Realty has introduced HipPocket to help close to 1,000 agents across 25 offices market homes to and communicate with each other more effectively. HipPocket unifies real-time team marketing of “Coming Soon” listings, buyer requirements and team messaging into a private, in-brokerage network. Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Rand Realty chooses HipPocket to improve in-brokerage networking HipPocket Inc.

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  • Getting Tech Buy-In From Your CRE Team: Gen X vs. Millennial

    REthink

    Whether you’re implementing a new brokerage-wide CRM or want to change your listing presentation to an interactive solution for iPad, any new technology can cause ruffled feathers if you don’t do your part to encourage buy-in from your team. This gets even more complicated as our workforce continues to change and the differences between Millennials and Gen X’ers become more apparent. There has been a lot of focus on the Millennial generation —generally those born between 1980 and 2000. More than…

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  • Xceligent Spaceful Updates the CRE Space-Tour Experience

    CRETECH

    Commercial Real Estate professionals rely on tour books to help potential clients experience spaces and consider locations. This painstaking process drained brokerage and tenant time and energy. Enter Xceligent Spaceful. The new product launched this October with the aim to speed up the space-tour creation process for CRE firms. The digital application improves a firm`s ability to showcase properties with potential tenants using mobile capabilities. “The space tour is a critical step on a b…

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  • CoStar Group Ranks on 100 Fastest Growing Companies List

    CRETECH

    Fortune Magazine ranked CoStar Group in its 2016 list of the 100 Fastest Growing Companies. CoStar Group was the only commercial real estate technology firm to earn the prestigious acknowledgement and appeared as the 81st company. CoStar Group is a CRE industry leader founded in 1987 to provide a comprehensive database of information. Today the company is best known as top marketplace provider and for its integrated suite of online service offerings. LoopNet.com is a commercial real estate m…

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  • Part Two: Are we just talking to each other? Maybe that’s actually ok and a good thing!

    Michael Beckerman

    Yesterday I wrote about how we need the real estate industry at large (specifically the commercial side of the business), to get more involved in the tech sector. To embrace it. Invest in it. Support it.This is not to say they aren’t, but they certainly aren’t embracing it in massive quantities. At least, not yet. This topic forced me to think deeper into what’s really going on.  Is this truly the case?  I ended up questioning my own narrative as a result. I decided to go for…

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  • Are we just talking to ourselves?

    Michael Beckerman

    I was at the amazing CRE // Tech Intersect event recently in NYC. Congrats to my friend Pierce Neinken on another extraordinary event! I was fortunate to have met Pierce when he first started this event platform a few years ago and to see where he has taken it is truly astonishing. From an idea to thousands of the best companies and people participating in his events… WOW!In meeting with many of the best and most innovative startups in the sector, one theme kept coming up over and over…

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