A Site Michael Griffin Loves: TripIt

For this series, we asked each of our Advisory Board members about a website that they found particularly useful. For this installment, we feature Michael Griffin, CPO at Xceligent, President/CEO at ClientLook, and resident blogger at The News Funnel.  What’s the site you love? Michael: I love TripIt. It’s a travel organizer that integrates my plane, rental car and hotel plans into trip itineraries. How do you use it? Michael: When I book travel, I usually receive an email confirmation. I forwa…

SiteCompli: Allowing NY Commercial Property Owners to Sleep Soundly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loPbKOJ2r9M If you’re a property owner, service manager or contractor doing business in an area as busy and chaotic as New York City, for example, you realize that one of your first main courses of action has to be remaining up-to-date on the latest building codes and regulations. As with many other research-intensive processes, this takes a lot of time and effort. And, not only that, but a continuous amount of double-checking and backtracking is required to make …

CRE App Review Q&A: Barbi Reuter

Barbi Reuter has long been held as the industry’s gold standard when it comes to social media excellence. She is also well known for her insightful blog posts regarding proper strategies for the use of the latest technology. Every year, Duke Long releases a list of the top ten most influential commercial real estate people on the Internet, where Barbi has reigned as the number one for the past two years. We are happy to have her as a member or our Advisory Board and  proud to serve as an addit…

Hightower Brings Its Leasing Platform Full Circle With Hightower 360

Ever the forward-thinkers, Hightower has been profiled on this site in the past as the team who pioneered the first leasing app strictly tailored to today’s mobile workforce, and they’ve taken it to the next level with their most recent announcement: Hightower 360. So, what is Hightower 360? In a nutshell, it’s Hightower 2.0 – with the same solid leasing platform serving as the foundation and game changing new features built on top of it – like current tenant tracking and inventory management. …

SpiderSuite: A Lender’s Best Friend

Commercial property inspections can take up quite a bit of time. As with many other components of doing business in the CRE sector, there are a lot of moving parts at play when it comes to ensuring that properties are up to code, and time is always of the essence. SpiderSuite is a cloud and mobile-based inspection management system designed for both loan servicers and field inspectors to make sure that no unnecessary snags are hit during the dealmaking process. SpidersSuite aims to keep users or…

CRE App Review Q&A: Chris Clark

Chris Clark is an information/technology consultant who showcases her expertise and passion on the subject of commercial real estate technology through her highly regarded blog, CREOutsider. Chris’s candid writing style and distinct perspective on the sector have helped to build CREOutsider into an industry mainstay, and we deeply value her insights as a member of the CRE App Advisory Board.  What’s the most exciting trend you are seeing currently in CRE Tech?  Chris: Brokerages are finally s…

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Cisdem: Your PDF Management Solution

In today’s increasingly mobile environment, PDFs can be especially difficult to deal with at times. Cisdem offers document management, conversion and recovery solutions for commercial real estate professionals who use Apple products. Let’s face it: it’s Apple’s world, and we all just live in it. The usage figures are astounding when you compare the popularity of iOS products to the likes of Android in the real estate community. The premise behind Cisdem apps are straightforward: they help you cl…

RealConnex Launches First Online Marketplace Connecting Entire Real Estate Ecosystem

Groundbreaking Real Estate Deal Platform Raises $2 million in Seed Funding; Honored As Top Startup This Week by “Web Summit” in Dublin   RealConnex launches today as the only online platform connecting the entire real estate ecosystem in one marketplace that efficiently allows investors, lenders, developers, construction companies and other service providers to access professional opportunities in real time. RealConnex raised $2 million in seed funding to develop and launch the platform and is c…

{Guest Post} Digsy: A Tech Tool That ALL CRE brokers MUST Have

The following is a guest post written by Allen Buchanan, Principal at Lee & Associates and CRE App Review advisory board member.  Last week, in my weekly blog post for The News Funnel, I whetted your appetite. Today, dinner will be served! If you missed the hors d’ oeuvres, there are a few left over that you can access by clicking here…AKA, you can read the post. If this is not appealing, here are the highlights: The commercial real estate business is simple, but not easy. The transaction …