Curated daily by our industry experts. Stay informed on how tech is shaping the real estate industry with these important headlines.
CCIM
Commercial Investment Real Estate surveyed CCIMs, the designated experts in commercial real estate, and asked them to share their day-to-day lifesavers- the tools and tips they use to stay on the cutting edge of chasing leads and closing deals. TheAnalyst PRO, Dropbox and Buildout were suggested by several CCIMs, and taken together, they represent a decent tech toolkit for today's CRE professional. Top Tech Tips from CCIM Pros CRE Tech, Inc.
Michael Beckerman
“We know that asking someone to download an app, it’s a hard thing to do now,’ said Lisa Kolodny, FreshDirect’s vice president of brand marketing and communications. Here’s what Kolodny means by that: Consumers are spending more time online, and yet they are concentrating those minutes in a very limited number of apps. Retailers — along with hotels, rental car services, and other businesses — are realizing that the best way to snare your interest online might not be with a killer a…
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Premium co-working space provider Industrious continues branching across the United States with the recent acquisition of PivotDesk, an office-sharing marketplace. At the same time, the company announced a Series B follow-on financing round.Currently PivotDesk will maintain its existing platform while functioning as a subsidiary of Industrious. PivotDesk, founded in 2012, is a marketplace connecting customers in need of flexible office space with properties seeking to fill their excess space. Th…
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Fact: In the United States, a solar photovoltaic panel system is installed every four minutes. Increasing awareness of mankind’s impact on climate change combined with rising electricity costs is driving demand for alternative energy sources. Solar energy appeals to individuals and corporations because it’s sustainable, renewable, and free of noise pollution. A residential rooftop solar system can cut CO2 pollution by 100 tons in its lifetime.Added bonus: installing a solar panel system is now 6…
Michael Beckerman
Here are my favorite Real Estate Tech reads from this past week. Happy reading! How that Facebook Guy Will Change Our Industry…And MoreBlog – Neuerspace Imagine driving up to a building, holding up your phone and being able to see the stacking plan, ownership information, asking rental rates and any other information typically available. The owner cou…
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Recently featured in Fast Company, Fortune, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, NPR and Wired, IOTAS is a smart home IoT (Internet of Things) platform making their first appearance at CRE // Tech. We are thrilled to welcome them!Our team at CRE // Tech recently caught up with IOTAS to learn more about their site, strategy and vision.What does your site do?IOTAS is a smart home IoT platform that integrates hardware with software and was designed as an enterprise level integration platform for MDU’s. We dig…
TenantCloud
So, we are nearing the end of Tax Season 2017. As we become more paperless each year, more and more tech savvy Landlords prefer to file their taxes online. That means we need to become more aware of the online risks. Especially when it comes to the stealing of sensitive information and how easy it can be to protect yourself. Tips To Protect Your Identity this Tax Season TenantCloud
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Richard Sarkis, CEO of CRE data platform ReonomyUnprecedented access to real-time market data could permanently change the way CRE professionals work — but not without meaningful integration.Given what’s at stake in a commercial real estate industry that’s worth trillions of dollars, probability and instinct alone are too fallible to drive meaningful business decisions. And while the rise of big data may indeed be an arbiter of industry-wide transformation, it must be implemented in a way that s…
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As part of its push to gain ground in a market dominated by online retail shopping giant Amazon, Wal-Mart announced a new tech investment division in Store No. 8. The shopping center’s new venture foster technology concepts aimed at boosting online sales.The Store No. 8 incubator is named after a location where Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton conducted research on new retail concepts. The participating businesses will operate like other startups but have the backing of the global retail leader. Wal-…
REthink
To say that technology is ubiquitous is likely an understatement. It impacts everything from our communications to our homes, work and friendships. Of course, commercial real estate is no stranger to the impacts of technology — with each of the big four sectors (office, retail, multifamily and industrial) seeing the changes in their own unique ways. The one thing that they all have in common is that an impact and change stemming from technology is inevitable. Here are the technologies that are h…
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