Latest Trends and Insights in Real Estate Technology

Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.

Search

  • 3 Ways That The Blockchain Will Change The Real Estate Market

    CRETECH

    The emerging technology known as blockchain has the potential to revolutionize the real estate industry. A blockchain creates a digital ledger shared amongst a computer network. Whenever an information change is proposed, all the authorized participants run complicated algorithms to verify the data’s legitimacy and approve the proposed transaction. This system allows authorized participants to update the ledger’s data without needing a central verifying authority.Bitcoin is the originator of the…

    Read more

  • Walmart Online Expansion Takes Aim at Amazon

    CRETECH

    Walmart is in a head-to-head battle with shopping and shipping giant Amazon to be America`s top goods retailer. In a race to increase its online market share, the retail giant is building new mega-warehouses and improving its shipping logistics. Amazon reported $107 billion in ecommerce sales, nearly 8 times more than Walmart.com. The company is adding to its fleet of distribution centers with five more enormous warehouses in the works for 2017 and has long term plans for 18 more. Its doze…

    Read more

  • Why A Single Source Platform Will Be The Winner in the CRE Tech Race

    Michael Beckerman

    While the CRE tech space is still in its infancy, if you really read the tea leaves it’s clear that their will only be a few winners. This is nothing new. If you look at the larger tech landscape, there really are only a few companies that dominate our lives.So why will the real estate industry be any different? It won’t. In fact, it will trend towards consolidation quicker than most realize and also faster than what happened in the tech industry at large.Why?First, the App market is itself not …

    Read more

  • 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…

    Read more

  • 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…

    Read more

  • 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…

    Read more

  • 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 …

    Read more

  • 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.

    Read more

  • 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…

    Read more

  • 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…

    Read more
<< < > >>

Join the Community

Subscribe to CREtech to get our monthly newsletter curated by our editors and special event discounts and announcements.


or if you're already a member

Login

Forgot password? Click here.