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  • How Smart Homes Are Disrupting the Real Estate Industry

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    Guest Post by Matt Murphy, CMO of Chime TechnologiesAccording to the 2017 Home Buyer and Seller Generational Trend report by the National Association of Realtors, millennials are now the largest group of potential homebuyers on the market–and they’re looking to purchase smart homes. A recent survey conducted by Coldwell Banker revealed that 72 percent of millennials are willing to pay $1,500 or more, and that 44 percent are willing to pay $3,000 or more to make their home smart.Those figures are…

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  • You Might Need a New Website If…

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    Websites do not age well. New coding practices and standards change the direction of web design it seems every five years. We look back at some of the original websites as novelties, but for a thriving business, a dinosaur website is not cute. If your website is showing a high bounce rate or any of the following signs, it’s probably time for a redesign. No…

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  • The Right Features Matter When Using Virtual Reality

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    Ask any commercial real estate marketer to name the top three trends in marketing today, and virtual reality is guaranteed to make the list. Virtual and augmented reality tech continues revolutionizing how CRE professionals market properties. Startups like VirtualAPT, Matterport, VRGlobal, FeelEstate, tout the engagement benefits of VR marketing across the industry, but not much has been said about what features matter when …

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  • 2 DADS ARE CRUSHING IT IN THE LENDING WORLD BY MAKING LOANS EASY & ANONYMOUS

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    Like most business owners, Chris Meyer found the lending process tedious and drawn out. In ten years of running various businesses, he applied for fourteen loans. Each required over two months to assemble the loan package: three years of business and personal tax returns, a personal financial statement, and an application for each bank. One day, he reflected upon how many people he didn’t know had access to his most private …

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  • Can Your Real Estate Business Defend Against a Cyber Attack?

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    Twice since we rang in the New Year, Yahoo announced a huge company-wide hacking breach exposing billions of user accounts. They are not alone. Hackers have breached a California lawmaker’s website, revealed a new bug in the Apple iPad, exposed AdultFriendFinder accounts, targeted LinkedIn and Dailymotion. Cyber security vulnerabilities are a huge concern for all businesses. Exposing confidential consumer information is a huge blow to any company’s bottom line. …

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  • Everything You Need to Know About Twitter Bots

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    Long before artificial intelligence chatbots started trending, we had Twitter bots. These programmed AI’s ranged from the weird, like @everyword that tweeted every word in the dictionary, to the awe-inspiring @dscvr_epic that tweeted a new satellite photo of Earth every day. Some social media managers consider them spammy. Depending on their purpose and programming, this could be true. When used correctly, Twitter bots can be a powerful marketing tool. …

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  • Directory Spotlight: hOM

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    Founders Ryan Freed, Corey Loftus, and Francesca Loftus started hOM after seeing how lifestyle amenities extended Ryan’s mother’s stage 3 cancer diagnosis from two years to eight years. He wanted to make these amenities more accessible for everyone. Amenities are a huge selling point in today’s tenant-occupied real estate spaces. hOM makes offering these amenities painless. The company takes underutilized spaces inside residential and commercial properties and transforms them into locations for …

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  • Why Internet Connectivity is Essential to Office Design

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    The essential modern office space checklist: location, amenities, parking, size…and internet connectivity? Yes, reliable internet connectivity is a non-negotiable feature of the current working world. That’s because the majority of businesses rely on Internet service to operate. It’s not just Internet access for email: cloud access, VoIP, big data, and SaaS providers depend on connectivity. In our report, The State of Office Connectivity, WiredScore found that 78% of office workers ranked reli…

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  • The (Virtual) Reality of Tech in Retail

    SimonCRE Insights

    One day, in the not too distant future, virtual reality will be able to eliminate, or at least blur, the limitations of space and time. For retailers, the reality of this opens a world of possibilities. The (Virtual) Reality of Tech in Retail SimonCRE

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  • Tech Companies Respond to Housing Crisis

    The Advisor

    Booming job growth in Silicon Valley is changing multi-housing development. While thousands of new jobs are added year-after-year, the housing supply is unable to keep pace with the demand. In response, tech companies are building housing for area employees. Tech Companies Respond to Housing Crisis HFF

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