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I continue to struggle with how Augmented Reality Applications can benefit the commercial real estate industry. TechCrunch recently pinned an article on MagicPlan 2.0, in which they commented: Augmented reality isn’t always totally pointless. Sorry if you think it’s hugely useful to see an augmented view of tweets around you just by holding up your [...]
Continue Reading →Here is Bo Barron’s take on what the 2013 CRE tech landscape will look like. There are some great nuggets here… 1. What CRE tech niche will be ripe for disruption or improvement in 2013? Mobile is it. There is nothing in the same ball park. The proliferation of high speed 4G and everyone under [...]
Continue Reading →CompStak just made their final presentation at 500 Startups’ Demo Day. Here is the video. Their demo starts at 42:30. And here is their slide deck: The RealDeal recently reported that “Compstak has also secured more than $1.1 million in funding from 26 investors including Expansion VC, the venture-capital arm of the Melohn family; Ryan [...]
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Compstak has gotten a lot of great press latest, including coverage in Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch. From their CrunchBase profile: CompStak uses a crowd-sourced model to gather real estate information that is hard to come by, difficult to compile, or otherwise unavailable. CompStak’s wedge into the market is a platform for the [...]
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Quietly, REIS Reports rolled out a refreshed (and elegant!) interface. Over the years, I’ve used CoStar Comps, Real Capital Analytics and REIS for sale comps. A quick story I have had a strong preference for Real Capital Analytics over the years, as they regularly improved both the breadth and depth of their research. Another large [...]
Continue Reading →Don’t think because you don’t have an iPhone 4s that you can’t have a virtual assistant of your own. Vlingo, a voice to text application, is available for all major cell phone operating systems (OSs). I tried it out on a Blackberry. Downloading and installing was easy but of all the OSs, the Blackberry is [...]
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Business card scanners are usually a huge disappointment. But thanks to cell phones with cameras, there’s some hope. I just tested LinkedIn’s CardMunch app for iPhone on my new iPhone 4s (will probably work on the iPad2, but I don’t have one of those…) and the results were good! The first time you open the [...]
Continue Reading →View the Space is a website dedicated to streamlining the leasing process in order to help brokers, owners and tenants get deals done faster. From their website: Brokers Streamline the leasing process and get deals done faster. Know before you show. When you receive an inquiry, simply click the share button and qualify the lead [...]
Continue Reading →A small group of us started The CRE App Review in January of 2012 with the goal of becoming the go-to source for all things CRE tech related. We all had something in common: the desire to encourage an increase in technological adoption throughout CRE. It is widely know that CRE is notoriously slow to [...]
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I’ve been thinking a lot about how folks search for office space, lately. In general terms, once the need is identified, the steps in order to lease new office space are to – Define the targeted area and create a list of suitable availabilities Decision-makers give a thumbs up or down for each property on [...]
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