Image credit: Daily Mail Tame Appraisal Chaos For quite some time I’ve felt that there’s got to be a better way for us appraisers to manager our workflow process. Most of us have been making due by juggling an out-of-sync excel job file, crusty calendar software and all sorts of home grown solutions like dry-erase boards [...]
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Rental Rate bar charts are soooo 2001. Ugh, and just when you were getting the hang of creating them in Excel…. Kwelia is a web-based application which uses heat mapping to visualize apartment rental rates. How it works: Big Data Through professional relationships and bleeding-edge technology, we are constantly collecting continuous streams of rental [...]
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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LeaseMatrix recently updated their Property Level lease analysis reports to include a rotating Street View image. The question is: being that this is really a financial analysis report, id this feature beneficial, or is it just a distraction? Check it out for yourself by clicking the “Street View” button in the upper right hand side [...]
Continue Reading →MSYapps is a great little suite of apps for finance, real estate and educational purposes. Here are some of my favorites: The NCREIF Property Index provides quarterly and annual total returns for thousands institutional-grade office, retail, apartment, industrial, and hotel properties. All properties in the NPI have been acquired and managed on behalf of tax-exempt [...]
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I referred Visual Lease to someone yesterday and realized I hadn’t posted anything on it yet. The main reason is simply that I haven’t had the opportunity to use it. It looks pretty good. From the Visual Lease website: Build any report, anytime, in minutes Visual Lease is the only lease administration system that was [...]
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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 [...]
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I’ve been getting a little heat from folks at CoStar and others after my “Has Reaction Web Been Forgotten” post: While most in the CRE biz enjoy a little CoStar bashing every now and then, that was not my intent. Instead, it was to suggest that there is a HUGE opportunity for CoStar to collect [...]
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While lease analysis software is still dominated by proprietary Excel models or Excel add-ins like ProCalc, web-based analysis tools are making major advancements. For instance, using LeaseMatrix, users can analyze commercial leases in under 2:30 minutes… on an iPad. Check it out: When was the last time you completed a lease analysis in 2:30 minutes [...]
Continue Reading →We’ve done a must have list for investment brokers and figured it was time to do one for leasing brokers, too. Here are some of our favorites: 1. Ten Eight App: The Formula for Decisions. Ten Eight is a groundbreaking mobile web app that allows tenants and brokers the ability to rate office buildings while on [...]
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