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CRETECH January 18, 2013

As flight technology becomes more advanced and affordable, it will begin to put a dent in the pockets of the aerial photographers I used to pay $1000s to shoot custom aerials.

You can actually control an AR.Drone from any Android or iPhone device. Here is the app's

CRETECH January 14, 2013

This post was originally a comment I submitted on CREvation and Startups, in response to a post titled, "Virtual Tours – Good or Bad Idea? --

The CRE App Review has regularly posted reviews on mobile pano apps like TourWrist, iPhone's iSight, Android’s Photo Sphere and Microsoft’s Photos...

CRETECH January 10, 2013

Here is Bo Barron's take on what the 2013 CRE tech landscape will look like. There are some great nuggets here... 1. What CRE tech niche will be ripe for disruption or improvement in 2013?

Mobile is it. There is nothing in the same ball park. The proliferation of high speed 4G and everyone under having an iPad (1,2,3,4,mini) or a smart pad that can surf the web make it crucial that CRE a...

CRETECH January 08, 2013

We posed four questions to the one and only Chris Clark (aka CREoutsider) to get her take on 2013. Buckle your seatbelt... What CRE tech niche will be ripe for disruption or improvement in 2013?

My pick is electronic transactions. Whether it’s OSCRE adopted standards or proprietary ones, large companies, REITS, banks, global firms…they have to ma...

CRETECH January 07, 2013

As we continue our CRE tech prediction series for 2013, we pose the same four questions to Patrick Braswell. In addition to being one of our favorite commercial real estate bloggers, Patrick is the founder of Ten Eight, one of the most inn...

CRETECH January 02, 2013

I am excited to introduce a short series as we start 2013. I've posed four questions to a handful of my favorite CRE bloggers including Chris ClarkDuke Long and

CRETECH December 31, 2012

MSYapps is a great little suite of apps for finance, real estate and educational purposes. Here are some of my favorites: The NCREIF Property Index provides quarterly and annual total returns for thousands institutional-grade office, retail, apartment, industrial, and hotel properties. All properties in the NPI have been acquired and managed on behalf of tax-exempt institutional investors, pri...

CRETECH December 19, 2012

Because none of our reviewers are in property management, we haven't had an opportunity to used Building Engines Mobile. Even so, many of our readers are property managers. For this reason, we thought it would be good to post some information on the application. What does Building Engines Mobile do? This mobile platform allows property and facility management teams to:

Work with a modern...

CRETECH December 18, 2012

I referred Visual Lease to someone yesterday and realized I hadn't posted anything on it yet. The main reason is simply that I haven't had the opportunity to use it. It looks pretty good. From the Visual Lease website:

Build any report, anytime, in minutes Visual Lease is the only lease administration system that was specifically designed for reporting. Simple or complex reports can be c...

CRETECH December 17, 2012

Quietly, REIS Reports rolled out a refreshed (and elegant!) interface.

Over the years, I've used CoStar Comps, Real Capital Analytics and REIS for sale comps.

A quick story I have had a strong preference for Real Capital Analytics over the years, as they regularly improved both the breadth and depth of their research.

Another large reason was that RCA also provides lists o...