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  • The Search for Office Space Has Evolved

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    The $860 million Loopnet/Costar merger made headlines about this time last year; a deal which is yet to close. Meanwhile, some folks are not standing idly by. As Costar and Loopnet spend millions of dollars trying to convince the FTC that the merger is not anti-competitive, the market continues to evolve. A Little Background Both Costar and Loopnet have subscription-based business models. If you’re a broker, and you need to run a market availability report, you need to buy a subscription. If yo…

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  • OnLive Desktop – Office Apps on Your Tablet

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    How would you like to be able to run full versions of Microsoft Office on your Apple or Android tablet? Turns out you can with OnLive Desktop. Sign up for a free account at OnLive, download the app to your device, then sign in. You’ll see what looks like a standard Windows 7 desktop with shortcuts to Word, PowerPoint and Excel plus your document folder, Internet Explorer and Adobe Reader. For $4.99 per month, the browser will be enabled for general browsing meaning you can see Flash websites. Th…

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  • The tech industry is beginning to take notice…

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    When TechCrunch runs a piece on Real Estate, you know techies are taking aim. In this piece, Jacob Mullins (a Senior Associate with Shasta Ventures) states: Over the past months I’ve been mentally mulling over the profundity of Real Estate. Throughout history, real estate has been the most coveted, fought-over, and valuable resource to humanity. Entire civilizations were created, and wiped out, on their level of success in securing it and the access it provided for their people. In the modern ag…

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  • Survey Results: Which CRE App do you use the most?

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    And the winner is….. DropBox with 11 votes. It appears simple is better when it comes to document storage and sharing. One surprise for me was that Loopnet Mobile was not even in the top 5, even though Loopnet is so widely used, it appears their mobile app is not. I even think Loopnet’s mobile app is pretty good. While LinkedIn isn’t just an app per se, their mobile app is pretty good. And is helpful when you need to look up contacts or leads which may not be already loaded on your phone. To …

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  • A Retailer’s Dream: TAS Mobile App

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    Trade Area Systems (TAS) has one of the most robust mobile Trade Area mapping and research applications in today’s marketplace. What does TAS Mobile do? From the company’s product description: TAS Mobile on the iPad gives you mapping, demographic reports, aerials and bird-eye imagery as well as access to you company’s TAS Unity knowledge-base wherever you are. You have the full-power of TAS Online on a portable platform. If you deal with potential tenants or clients you can easily answer their …

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  • 5 Must Have iPhone Apps for CRE Investment Brokers

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    After 30 or so reviews on CRE App Review, here’s our top 5 must-have iPhone apps for CRE Investment Brokers: 1. Real Capital Analytics Transaction Search. By far the most exhaustive database of investment-grade commercial property sale comparables. This app allows you to carry  $5 trillion of sale comps in your pocket. It even allows you to map comps surrounding a specific address, which is great when you’re in the field or on a property tour. 2. Real Estate Back of the Envelope. While it’s not …

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  • CityMaps for CRE: Retailer Logo API?

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    When I first saw a screenshot of CityMaps application, I got excited. It appeared that they built a way to automate the tedious task of placing area retailer logos on maps for marketing purposes. After reading more, it appears to be just another Social/Deals/Reviews site with hardly any commercial estate application or benefit. But if they’ve got the logos and locations already organized in such a way, couldn’t someone use an API to pull them into an application which could help the CRE industr…

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  • StatPlanet – Interactive Map Visualization

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    Here’s something for all you map fanatics – StatPlanet, an interactive map creator. It’s free, open source software that includes free maps and data sets (approximately 2-4 years old). Besides the map visualizer, there’s a data visualizer, StatTrends, which you can use to create interactive charts from the same data sets. StatPlanet comes in a web based or desktop (lite, basic, plus) version so you can pick the one that meets your needs. Some versions allow you to import your own data (Excel, c…

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  • Summly: Instantly Summarized Results

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    Too much stuff to read?  Try out Summly for iPhone/iPad.  It works 2 ways.  In the search scenario, enter your keywords and instead of returning a bunch of cryptic titles, it provides a brief summary for each web page returned.  Click on one and you’ll get a condensed version of the article – 3 bullet points summarizing what its algorithm determines are the most salient points.  You can also type in a URL directly and get the bullet point summary.  A link to the web page is right at the top in c…

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  • RentPost: Property Management the way it should be

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    I first learned about RentPost while reading a blog post on Startup Riot SHOW in Atlanta which took place last month, and immediately wanted to write a review on it. RentPost is a cloud-based property management platform. While the cloud is nothing new for CRM, household-name CRE property management tools like MRI and Yardi have been slow to embrace the cloud computing trend. From the RentPost’s AngelList product description: RentPost is property management software in the cloud, supporting prop…

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