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AssetAvenue: CRE Crowdfunding Made Easy

Chances are you’ve heard the word “crowdfunding” tossed around once or twice in your local CRE social circle. It’s a noble concept – taking potentially lucrative real estate investment opportunities (once only made accessible to accredited, aka extremely wealthy, individuals) and making them available to a broader audience. AssetAvenue, a new real estate crowdfunding platform, has set out to do things a little bit differently than the rest of the competition. As opposed to investing in the equit…

SPREADING THE NEWS IN CRE

We’re always happy to learn what our fellow entrepreneurs are doing to promote technology in the CRE industry. The News Funnel is a channel where brokers, landlords, investors and PR professionals publish, curate and read industry news. We spoke with Michael Beckerman, founder of The News Funnel, and a CRE public relations veteran, about the challenges and successes he encountered while building and promoting his startup. SPREADING THE NEWS IN CRE CompStak

Duke Long, Michael Bloomberg & High Heels

RealConnex: Marketplace For Real Estate Pros

We all know the power of social networking on the Internet, but what about B2B networking? After all, why should you allow your business endeavors to be inhibited by social and geographic limitations, when in fact the best deal for you could be offered by somebody all the way across the country who you’ve even never met before? Enter Roy Abrams, a long-time tech executive and real estate developer, who contrived his new website, RealConnex, in order to streamline the dealmaking process and provi…

Where are all the Angels?

CurbStreet: CRE Marketing and Analysis Tool

CurbStreet is a cloud-based real estate marketing and analysis tool designed with the goal of maximizing the abilities of commercial real estate professionals. Co-founded by Michael Sueoka and Matthew Freedman in 2011, the two decided to merge their respective areas of expertise in the real estate and technology sectors to create a B2B solution that would simplify the outdated data entry and analysis processes still being used today. The inspiration behind CurbStreet is a simple one. As opposed…

CRE // Tech Intersect Returns to New York City for Biannual Symposium

(New York, New York – October 1, 2014) – CRE // Tech Intersect, a biannual commercial real estate (CRE) technology symposium, will be returning to New York City on Thursday, November  6, 2014 to facilitate an industry-wide conversation about how technology is changing the commercial real estate business. The event will connect forward-thinking CRE professionals with innovators that are driving efficiencies in the market through the latest technological advancements. The networking symposium will…

theBrokerList: Swiss Army Knife for CRE Pros

Most aptly described as a B2B Swiss Army Knife for modern real estate professionals, theBrokerList (tBL) is a dynamic, collaborative and interactive platform where legitimate commercial real estate information is exchanged and legitimate commercial real estate deals are completed. Perhaps best described using the words of tBL founder, Linda Day Harrison, the site provides a comprehensive toolset to help all members within its fast-growing community to: Easily be found by other brokers, investor…

CREATE: Property Analysis, 3D Maps, and Investment Insights

Keep your ears perked if you haven’t heard the buzz yet, because Create may be on the verge of altering the real estate investment process, from start to finish, from this point forward. While the site isn’t officially launched yet, Create expects to launch in DC by the end of 2014 and in Detroit in early 2015. According to their website, Create allows owners, investors, and other building professionals to efficiently manage their investments by providing them with the tools to enhance the foll…