Rofo.com just rolled out its new Listings Widget. It is slick, clean and simple to implement. From Rofo’s announcement: We’re excited to unveil a new (and easier way) for commercial real estate brokers, agents, property managers and landlords to present available listings on their own website. The Rofo listings widget (please help us come up with [...]
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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 [...]
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In 1981, MTV debuted its first music video: the Buggles “Video Killed the Radio Star”¹. A recent twitter rant and followup blog post titled “Why I Hate Email CRE Marketing and Why it Won’t Stop” by Coy Davidson got me thinking… How can we, as a small group of progressive tech aficionados, convince the mainstream commercial real estate [...]
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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 [...]
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Inbox Zero Now that you have that shinny new Google Apps Gmail inbox set up for your corporate address, it’s now time to learn how to manage it properly. I doubt any of you leave unread (snail)mail in your mailbox because it would fill quickly and your post office couldn’t deliver any new mail. What [...]
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In my 2013 CRE tech predictions, I suggested that CRE Data Visualization would made major advancements in 2013. So, of course, I am going to point out examples to make myself look smart…. One of the best examples of this HUGE opportunity is 2nd City Zoning. From NextCity.org: In essence, the map allows residents to [...]
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 [...]
Continue Reading →With the butt kicking many retailers have taken over the last 5 years, many are cautious to expand or open new locations. Deals take longer as tenants underwrite the market with antiquated techniques, such as pulling demographics reports and traffic counts. Motionloft has done an incredible job of pushing innovation in this space by introducing new [...]
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Remember life before Gmail? Exchange servers, outlook, thunderbird, *IT* departments, IMAP, POP3, SMTP… *ugh*. Then don’t be evil Google came along with a beta project called Gmail in 2004 which changed the way we did email. Its ease of use and powerful features won most of us over for our personal accounts. But what about our [...]
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