Robin: A Dashboard For Your Office

One of the goals of modern technology is to make our lives more efficient, and Robin is an app that falls directly in line with that philosophy. By equipping important rooms in a workplace with sensors, Robin assists users in working more efficiently and less awkwardly. Still confused as to how it works? It’s really simple … Users outfit the rooms in their office with a sensor (which ranges from $5 to $30; usually only one sensor is required per room) that detects the app on each registered pho…

TenSource: A Better Way To Broker

TenSource is an innovative, easy-to-use and (most importantly) free app designed to simplify the lives of tenant and landlord brokers as much as possible. The site draws from a database of office, retail and industrial listings that are submitted by brokers. Users need only to enter in their desired criteria for a property in terms of location, asking rent and square footage, etc. to pare down a list of potential candidates before choosing the best fit. Overall, TenSource benefits landlord and…

Piinpoint: Location Analytics Made Simple

Are you a retail broker? If so, the question you need to be asking yourself is whether or not you’re taking advantage of the market planning tools out there to keep your brokerage competitive. PiinPoint is an online platform that provides “a location-as-a-service solution” for organizations, helping them find the right property that will be the most accommodating with respect to both short-term gains, as well as long-term successes. PiinPoint does this by harnessing a variety of data sets (demog…

DRiVE Decisions: Clearer, Faster, Better Decisions for Real Property

Eye Candy. Those are the first words to come to mind when taking in DriveDecisions, a software product that produces 3D virtual environments, paired with reams of relevant data in order to create full-scale, interactive property models. These models, in turn, are designed to be systematically studied and dissected by real estate professionals with the goal of either enhancing their insights regarding potential investment opportunities, or helping them to identify and target new ones. Rather tha…

The News Funnel Launches Content Creation Service

Largest real estate news platform adds original content creation to extensive list of services for real estate companies (NEW YORK, N.Y. – October 27, 2014) –  The News Funnel, a fast-growing content platform for the real estate industry, announced today the launch of a Content Creation Service on the site to enable companies to produce original content in an extremely cost-effective manner. Using a team of highly experienced writers from within the real estate industry, The News Funnel will off…

KISI: Keyless Entry Solution for Property Managers

ATTENTION PROPERTY MANAGERS! Are you tired of sitting idly by and watching while modern technology makes sweeping changes in seemingly every industry except yours? You may want to check out KISI. KISI is a mobile app that enables keyless entry to specific spaces for users approved by the building owner/manager. It renders age-old security solutions like physical keys, PinPads, keycards or turnstiles as options of the past. Yet, at the same time, these solutions need not be replaced, as KISI can …

CompStak Exchange Transforms the Commercial Real Estate Industry

Today, commercial real estate tech start-up  CompStak  launched CompStak Exchange, a new platform of the lease comp database platform free for commercial real estate brokers, researchers, and appraisers. CompStak Exchange features enhanced functionality to facilitate the exchange and analysis of lease comps, with an ability for multi-market companies to adopt the system for lease comp management across markets. “The premise of  CompStak  is the exchange of information,” said CEO and co-founder M…

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FollowUp.cc: Simple & Powerful Email Tool

How often have you been knee-deep in a business matter, only to have something completely unrelated come across your desk at the exact wrong time, causing you to lose focus? Let’s assume that the information you just received is pertinent, but not for another month or so. Now, you’re tasked with properly storing this update away for later use, while simultaneously trying to regain the train of thought you were just on. The anxiety can be maddening. You literally can’t afford to forget either, ri…

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