Who doesn’t love a great tech start-up story? How about one that has huge potential in the real estate industry? Lockitron can essentially change the way we function within commercial real estate, residential real estate, property management, and more! What is Lockitron? Lockitron replaces your keys with your phone.With Lockitron, you can instantly grant family, [...]
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I am trying to think of the last time I dialed my voicemail inbox on my cell phone. It probably was around January 2009 when I switched from a Blackberry device to my first Android powered smartphone. For whatever reason I find dialing and navigating my voicemail system just a huge inconvenience and it really sucks the [...]
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Users of kykloud’s iPad Survey App see 40%-60% time savings and efficiency gains according to the company’s website. Their iPad survey app enables surveyors to survey 2 built assets per day when it typically takes 1-3 days per building using traditional data collection methods. How do they do it? Linking directly into your asset model, kykloud has [...]
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With the introduction of eXplore, Xceligent is going head-to-head with Costar’s COSTARGO iPad app. What are the features of eXplore? From their iTunes product description: • Map search by custom radii or draw a free hand polygon • Save your favorite properties to quickly present and tour • Seamlessly search and view opportunities across the [...]
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Do you get jealous when you participate in someone’s webinar that uses high tech video conferencing software? Wish you could have access to a similar application to conduct team meetings, client presentations, even virtual property tours to an out-of-state client, but without the high cost? Well, do you have a Gmail account? Then you have [...]
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I am sure everyone by now has heard of QR (quick response) codes. There are several free websites that allow people to generate a free QR code but almost all lack in assisting to deliver content that is optimized for a mobile device. Typically one would have to hire web developers to re-engineer their website [...]
Continue Reading →3D Architectural Visualization is the process of creating/displaying virtual world imagery as an accurate reflection of current/planned real-world development. 3D Architectural Models (aka 3D Models) are virtual world building blocks – existing in a variety of file types and viewable in a variety of environments. While 3D has created great opportunities in the mobile Building Information Modeling (BIM) [...]
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If you haven’t heard of Property Capsule, you need to check it out. The product description from their website: The Property Capsule is a cloud-based technology platform that helps you manage and present your property portfolio. All of your property data, such as property overviews, agent contacts, site plans, tenant lists, photography, maps and demographics [...]
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Just about every national commercial real estate brokerage firm publishes some type of quarterly market report, normally in a boring PDF format. And at the end of each quarter, you’ve either got to wait for an email or visit the broker’s website to download their newest report. Imagine downloading an app which would not only [...]
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Second only to commercial real estate’s addiction to the fax machine, is the construction industry’s addiction to blueprints… Enter PlanGrid. From a recent TechCrunch article: PlanGrid is a cloud-based service that delivers blueprints as PDFs directly on the tablet; then people working in the field can use these instead of paper-based versions. When a modification needs to be [...]
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