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  • Sharestates Launches Auto-Invest Tool for Highly-Tailored Investments While Surpassing $500M in Loan Originations

    Sharestates

    GREAT NECK, N.Y. (June 7, 2017) – Sharestates, an online real estate investment marketplace, announced today the launch of its new Auto-Invest tool, a feature that will maximize the investor's chances of investing in the platform's highly sought after real estate debt opportunities. The new feature will allow investors to choose from multiple strategies, including a custom investment strategy that includes 12 underwriting filters to choose from. The launch of this new tool coincides wi…

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  • Five things I learned from my #TALKSHOP Live with Jeff Finn, President/CEO of Realnex

    Michael Beckerman

    I had the pleasure of chatting with my long time friend, Jeff Finn of RealNex last week in a live #TALKSHOP event. It was really great to have the opportunity to connect with Jeff and discuss all things commercial real estate tech, RealNex and their growth strategy. I hope you will watch the interview as I think it will shed some light on how to build a successful startup from scratch. In addition, I would like to add these five takeaways from my conversation with Jeff:1. They have proven their …

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  • Best Tech to Attract Multifamily Tenants

    CRETECH

    Smart tech impacts consumers everyday lives, but that reach usually stopped at motion sensor lighting and smartphone voice commands. The popular Alexa and Amazon Echo voice assistants, smart thermostats, and modern security systems are popularizing smart tech. Look back at the CES 2017 and new smart gadgets for the home won the show. Multifamily owners, investors, and managers in competitive markets adopt smart tech features to attract and retain tenants. So what technology impresses tenants? …

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  • Utilizing Modern Light Bulbs to AMP up your Security

    Planned Companies

    A while back we wrote an article detailing the financial benefits of changing your light bulbs to new energy efficient bulbs. Aside from saving you watts of money on the electrical bill, did you know that your light bulbs could actually serve as an additional layer of security – keeping residents feeling safer and thus happier? PICTURE THIS: You walk out of your apartment door, into the hallway of your building. The light’s above you are flashing; down the hall you can see areas of darkness wher…

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  • LeasePilot

    CRETECH

    CONTACT Jonathan Eskow, Co-Founder & COO, LeasePilot THE SCOOP Had a great chat with Jon about his new site. Jon has the professional journey that I so admire and respect. Left a lucrative career in real estate law to follow his passion and build a really cool new startup called LeasePilot.co. The whole concept of LeasePilot is centered around helping to close deals faster for brokers and owners. The site grew out of Jon’s experience working on deals and seeing how inefficient and pa…

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  • Camber Creek

    CRETECH

    CONTACT Jeff Berman, Director, Camber Creek THE SCOOP What a friggen great dude! What a nice guy! Holy shit they know what they are doing and are going to crush it! Those were my takeaways from meeting Jeff of Camber Creek a really active VC in the CRE tech space. We met up on the Highline on a beautiful day in New York City.  The companies that Jeff and his Funds have invested in read like a “Who’s Who” in the startup space such as VTS, Compstak, Fundrise,BuildingEngines, Latch and too man…

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  • Fast Office

    CRETECH

    CONTACT Bob Koncelik, Partner, Fast Office THE SCOOP Bob reached out to introduce me to his site, FastOffice.com. What’s so cool about his site is that it’s part of what I think is one of the fastest growing and hottest sectors of the CRE tech space…space visualization. Fast Office is a platform that is designed to provide commercial landlords and brokers with a tool to lease space faster and more effectively. Their tool merges the space tour and test-fit process by providing editable, 3D a…

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  • Originate

    CRETECH

    CONTACT Tyler Buck, Managing Director, Originate THE SCOOP Tyler was one of the more interesting meetings I have had since I entered the tech space in that he is the guy that is actually building a great many of these sites I write about. Originate is one of the most successful software developers in the space and has a great deal of CRE tech experience. Here is a description of what they do from their website, impressive shit… “We design, build, and evolve modern software products. We c…

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  • Tech and Real Estate… My Passion and Professional Focus!

    Michael Beckerman

    When I first started out in the real estate tech space, I was focused on building my own startup in the news aggregation space. I saw a huge trend coming where brands would become their own media and start blogging much more aggressively and getting super active on the content marketing front. So I left my own thriving PR firm to build a news aggregator and content marketing platform. A place where brands and professionals in the real estate industry could post their news and views as well as re…

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  • 8 All-In-One Solutions for Commercial Real Estate

    CRETECH

    Now that real estate technology and software innovation is catching up with the modern business era, we are poised to see the next wave of service providers. Specialization in a particular product area helps launch successful companies, but there comes a point in time where real estate professionals want a single access point to handle the workflow. Password fatigue exists for a reason. Who wants a different login for their accounting, their property listings, and their contact database? Tech co…

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