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Big Data Means Big Changes for the Real Estate Industry

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7/11/2017

Talk about trendy: worldwide, 40% of companies use big data to inform decisions and streamline workflows. That number is sure to grow since its application maximizes work production while cutting costs. In the real estate industry, the big data trend touches everything from how property managers handle accounting to how real estate agents schedule marketing campaigns. We’re interested to see how big data will move the real estate industry forward. Just look at how big data adoption is changing b…

New York, New York

Michael Beckerman

7/11/2017

“If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere…”Always loved that song. Still gives me goosebumps.Having spent all of my life in the NYC metropolitan area, I love New York. While it has certainly changed a lot over the years from what it was in the 1970’s, it is still the capital of the world in my eyes. The energy. The electricity. The toughness. The passion. Everything is just bigger, crazier and louder in NYC.Having built my PR firm in both NYC and Jersey where I live, I know the city’s real …

Ripe for Disruption: How Open Architecture APIs Could Revolutionize the Real Estate Industry

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7/11/2017

Bob Bemis, Vice President of Business Development, Realtors Property Resource ®Open architecture application programming interfaces (commonly referred to as APIs), make many of the apps and websites we use daily possible. Twenty years ago, the airline industry took the lead in developing an API for accessing flight reservation data. Household names such as Facebook, Google Maps, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Flickr, and Pinterest all utilize open architecture for various sharing features. Today, r…

ProspectNow Launches Predictive Digital Marketing Platform

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7/10/2017

The competition is fierce amongst lenders and real estate agents to land and close customers. In the drive to generate leads, lenders and agents tend to “blanket” advertise, or spend money on marketing tactics reaching customers not ready for their services. Talk about wasting money! Stop marketing to owners who aren’t ready to refinance or sell. The solution is ProspectNow, a predictive marketing solution that makes digital marketing more efficient for lenders and agents. …

Five Things I Learned From My #TalkShop Live with CamberCreek

Michael Beckerman

7/6/2017

I had a great time with my friends Jeffrey Berman, Director and Jake Fingert, Partner of Camber Creek, the hot real estate VC based in NYC. Of course I had the crazy idea of doing the interview outside on the HighLine in NYC, but logistics (sound, etc.) were not so good so we went inside to a local residential building where Jeff actually lives and did what I always seem to do… we winged it 🙂 It was a lot of fun and super interesting to talk to these two guys who seem to not take life too serio…

Technology Keeps Shoppers Visiting Malls

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7/6/2017

Today the retail landscape looks more like a screen than a shopping mall. Online shopping is swallowing a huge bite of the retail landscape. Just look at Amazon’s dominance and Wal-mart’s push to catch up with its new online initiatives. Stories about major retailers shuttering locations pop up every week. Still, on-location shopping is not dead. It’s just changing, and retailers are utilizing technology to maximize a customer’s experience before they walk through the door. …

OfficeSpace.com

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7/5/2017

CONTACTSusie Algard, CEO, OfficeSpace.comTHE SCOOPSusie is a quintessential entrepreneur. Risk taker. Company builder. Visionary. Her background has always been in tech. She was part of the founding team at WhitePages.com, a company focused on building global digital identity data, serving 55M monthly consumers as well as Fortune 100 companies. Being an entrepreneur to Susie means seeing opportunities to solve company’s pain points. When she turned her attention and focus to the com…

Real Capital Markets

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7/5/2017

CONTACTChris Babcock, CTO, Real Capital MarketsTHE SCOOPWOW! Real Capital Markets (RCM) is the real deal! It’s one of those companies I didn’t really know well, and I should have. They are doing big business with over 300,000 customers to date who have used the platform to generate over $1.8 trillion in transactions on line. Yes, that’s a TRILLION!!! And according to stats I saw, over 50% of all U.S. commercial assets sold, over $10 million, are brought to market usi…

Tenant Tracker

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7/5/2017

CONTACTKeith Kleinmaier, CEO, Tenant Tracker THE SCOOPKeith has been in the commercial real estate industry his whole life. He grew up in the industry through his family’s business and then started investing while in college and has been active ever since. He started his real estate journey in 2000 in the brokerage, property management and development sectors, as well as a being a tenant – he has basically touched all aspects in the CRE process! Not many people can say th…

CompStak and Xceligent Plan to Go Big, Together

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7/5/2017

Two big players providing commercial real estate data announced they are joining forces to deliver more efficient and transparent market insights. The CompStak and Xceligent partnership will deliver unprecedented real-time visibility into real estate markets. Starting this summer, brokers using Xceligent CDX or Pro will be able to access data on the CompSt…

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