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 [...]
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For another incredible example of the HUGE potential data visualization has for commercial real estate, check out Motionloft, if you haven’t already. Demographic and traffic information which gets updated once a year by your friendly DOT and US Census Bureau is now obsolete. Motionloft provides “real-world analytics”, similar to what Google Analytics provides for websites. A [...]
Continue Reading →As my CRE data visualization soap box theme continues, at an NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate Sustainable Real Estate Conference, several panelists made some great observations. The growing volume of data generated within cities presents an unprecedented opportunity for the real estate industry to better segment markets and products, target policies and investment, and [...]
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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Honest Buildings helps real estate professionals discover building information, uncover the companies for a wide variety of industry-related needs and highlights the service providers and organizations. Speaking at a recent VERGE event, Riggs Kubiak, CEO with Honest Buildings, sees a massive opportunity to connect buildings owners through a hyper-connected network to make for sustainable cities. [...]
Continue Reading →I have been amazed by Coy Davidson’s willingness to share his blog stats. My first reaction is always, “Why would Coy share this treasure trove of information??” Then, it occurred to me. For as much as we gripe and beg for CRE data to become more open and transparent, if we are overly protective of our [...]
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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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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City by city, 42Floors is liberating office for lease listings for all to see. Are office market statistics next? Take note market incumbents…. you know who you are.
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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