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By 2009, mobile users could do a lot with smartphone apps — get directions, listen to music, take pictures, play games, even film a video. Aaron Kardell thought that you ought to be able to add “look for a house” to the growing list of applications. He founded HomeSpotter with the intention of doing just that. https://www.inman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Listing-Bits-EP020.mp3 Kardell gr...
Find Seattle on a map. Now find the farthest U.S. city from it. The Miami metro area wants to be on Amazon’s map as the home for its second headquarters, a planned $5 billion, eight-million-square-foot, 50,000-employee campus for Amazon executives, staff and high tech professionals (Read: high-paying jobs). But while economic development agencies in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties ar...
Rating restaurants and bars is commonplace, but rating the workplace? That is a new service that Austin, Texas-based tech startup Tenavox has created to help tenants make more informed decisions before entering a lease agreement. The platform allows office occupiers to post and read reviews about their workplace, and gives potential tenants the ability to gain insights about prospective buildings ...
Google seems to be as much a real-estate developer as a search engine these days. The tech giant wants to build a sprawling new campus in the North Bayshore area of Mountain View, a city in Silicon Valley that already hosts a majority of the company's properties. But there's been a hiccup in Google's play for the development, which could include nearly 10,000 homes, 3.6 million squa...
As Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have been on fire for a large portion of 2017, focus has turned to blockchain, the underlying technology that powers these digital currencies. But blockchain technology has many more potential use cases and applications other than just serving as the fuel behind Bitcoin. Below, BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, has outlined tho...
Want Ikea furniture but hate assembling it? More help may be on the way. According to Recode, the Swedish flatpack start has bought gig-economy startup TaskRabbit in an effort to boost its digital customer service. TaskRabbit, which connects freelance workers with general handyman and home improvement jobs, already has a pilot partnership with Ikea offering furniture assembly in the U.K. and curre...
Howard County is drafting a proposal and incentive package for Amazon to bring its coveted HQ2 to Columbia, joining Baltimore and Prince Georges County in making a play for the massive economic development deal. The county plans to propose a combination of buildings in the Columbia Gateway, a 920-acre business park ripe for redevelopment, and downtown Columbia as the future site of Amazon’s plan...
For the sake of our survival, we must not only see the rise of big data as an inevitable part of the industry’s growth, but embrace it as a key tool in our ability to remain competitive. For the dwindling number of property managers who are not keeping up with the changes taking place around us, the rise of big data might seem like something out of George Orwell. This is especially true when you...
By Jim Dallke – Chicago Inno, Chicago’s Old Main Post Office, a building born in the 1930s that was built to process mail-order catalogues, is getting a new look after New York-based 601W Companies acquired the building a year and a half ago. The building’s owners revealed some of the plans for the future of the historic Chicago building Wednesday afternoon at a press conference, and new...
The home-buying approach varies from generation to generation—and in order to overcome down payment hurdles, millennial buyers are transforming the standards of homeownership set by baby boomers, according to the 2017 Zillow Group Report. In fact, less than half (39 percent) of millennials submit offers with the recommended 20 percent down payment. Twenty-one percent put down the minimum: 5 perc...