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CRETech March 14, 2019
Let’s talk big picture on the current and future state of the CREtech landscape. CREtech is a nascent industry, but much of the tech revolution’s trajectory in commercial real estate has already mirrored the massive and rapid technological changes seen across other industries: finance, healthcare, and insurance, to name a few. As waves of new tech cause profound...
CRETech February 12, 2019
The latest splashy headlines in CREtech tout total funding and the extraordinary proliferation of startups<...
CRETech February 05, 2019
As part of my mission to help the commercial real estate industry discover tech, I need to do a better job on educating them as to what's happening on the Multifamily side. So for this episode I sat down with, in my opinion, four of the hottest and fastest growing startups in the Multifamily space. Care...
CRETech January 18, 2019
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GY1718P0RY&feature=youtu.be[/embed] In episode 8 of my Vlog Series, I focus on the innovation happening in the physical world of CREtech today. I sat down with four founders of some extraordinary startups who are building amazing things: Felicite Moorman, CEO, STRATIS IoT; Carl Eckert, Co-Founder & CEO, Pause; Andrew Deitchman, Co-Founder & CEO, T...
CRETech January 11, 2019
We’re at the dawn of a revolution in commercial real estate. Transformations are coming at a level the sector has never seen before, creating disruptions that rival and even surpass the rise of Space-as-a-Service. But it won’t look quite like most people expect. Technology’s ultimate (and inevitable) impact on CRE will come down to just one thing: jobs....
CRETech January 03, 2019
Let’s be frank: commercial real estate tech lacks diversity. If you’ve attended a CREtech conference, you have surely noticed a glaring truth: We always lack women and minorities on stage. I’m responsible for content at the largest event platform in the CRE technology industryâ...
CRETech December 20, 2018
You’ll hear the term “predictive analytics” (PA) used far and wide in a variety of sectors right now—business, intelligence, healthcare, and yes, commercial real estate, too. At our recent CRETech San Fran event, when we asked panelists for thoughts on the most important, impactful technology in CRE, CTOs of the largest brokerage firms universally agreed on ...
CRETech December 13, 2018

Space as a Service to Catalyze Visualization Advances

The visualization side of commercial real estate has remained stagnant for decades and any solutions for “space tours” never scaled. I have long been interested in understanding what has stopped CRE from embracing a head-t...
CRETech December 04, 2018

How will technology impact commercial brokerage now?

Let’s talk about tech’s ultimate impact on the commercial brokerage sector. The first dialogue in this sector centered on how tech would replace the broker—42Floors was meant to upend commercial real estate. I knew it would never happen. Bro...
CRETech November 29, 2018

Space as a Service Headwinds Grow Stronger by the Day

A long, long time ago... For as long as I can remember, the commercial real estate industry had five core pillars: office, retail, industrial, multifamily, and hospitality. As decades passed, e...