{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 …

Speed Up Deals With AdvancedREI

“The Art of the Deal.” There’s a reason that deals are referred to as an art form, and that’s because (like great art) a great deal must be crafted and nurtured meticulously in order to reach its full potential. AdvancedREI is a web and mobile-based app that is designed with commercial investors, brokers, lenders and developers in mind, and touts the use of a proprietary algorithm to attempt to aid in getting deals get done faster. Most of the financial models currently being relied upon today a…

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CRE App Review Q&A: Duke Long

Long regarded as the “Bad Boy” on the CRE blogging scene, Duke Long knows just as much about CRE Tech as anyone, and he’s not afraid to let you know about it! The CRE App Review is happy to have him on as a member of its newly formed Advisory Board, and would like to kick off a series of Q&As featuring our board members starting with the one and only: Duke Long What’s the most exciting trend you are seeing currently in CRE Tech? Duke: 3D environments like Floored 3D. Not science fiction. …

Exclusive Interview with David Eisenberg, Co-Founder and CEO of Floored

David Eisenberg, Co-Founder and CEO of Floored, a 3D modeling program that brings properties to life, gives us the exclusive on what makes Floored unique as a product and company. Catch a glimpse of what it’s like to work there, as well as what it takes to thrive in this new and booming industry. For more information on Floored, please refer to this past entry on our site, as well as this profile on The News Funnel and their Q&A with David. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sny5IgOrtuA…

Xceligent: Verified CRE Research Source

Xceligent is one of the premier providers of verified commercial real estate information across the United States. How does it do this? Boots on the ground and satellites in the air. They use satellite images and data provided by a team of hundreds of experienced commercial real estate researchers to proactively gather information across the country. Xceligent supplies the following research content to commercial real estate brokers, appraisers, owners and financial institutions to aid in their …

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Robin: A Dashboard For Your Office

One of the goals of modern technology is to make our lives more efficient, and Robin is an app that falls directly in line with that philosophy. By equipping important rooms in a workplace with sensors, Robin assists users in working more efficiently and less awkwardly. Still confused as to how it works? It’s really simple … Users outfit the rooms in their office with a sensor (which ranges from $5 to $30; usually only one sensor is required per room) that detects the app on each registered pho…

TenSource: A Better Way To Broker

TenSource is an innovative, easy-to-use and (most importantly) free app designed to simplify the lives of tenant and landlord brokers as much as possible. The site draws from a database of office, retail and industrial listings that are submitted by brokers. Users need only to enter in their desired criteria for a property in terms of location, asking rent and square footage, etc. to pare down a list of potential candidates before choosing the best fit. Overall, TenSource benefits landlord and…

Piinpoint: Location Analytics Made Simple

Are you a retail broker? If so, the question you need to be asking yourself is whether or not you’re taking advantage of the market planning tools out there to keep your brokerage competitive. PiinPoint is an online platform that provides “a location-as-a-service solution” for organizations, helping them find the right property that will be the most accommodating with respect to both short-term gains, as well as long-term successes. PiinPoint does this by harnessing a variety of data sets (demog…