Five Must Have Apps for Leasing Brokers

We’ve done a must have list for investment brokers and figured it was time to do one for leasing brokers, too. Here are some of our favorites: 1. Ten Eight App: The Formula for Decisions. Ten Eight is a groundbreaking mobile web app that allows tenants and brokers the ability to rate office buildings while on tour and compare scores side by side based on a person’s chosen weighted preferences. The design of the app captures live data from tours and sets out to revolutionize the way tenants, brok…

CompStak: Crowd Sourced Lease Comparables

Compstak has gotten a lot of great press latest, including coverage in Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch. From their CrunchBase profile: CompStak uses a crowd-sourced model to gather real estate information that is hard to come by, difficult to compile, or otherwise unavailable. CompStak’s wedge into the market is a platform for the exchange of commercial lease comps. Brokers, landlords, appraisers and researchers use their site, and submit comps on completed commercial lease tra…

Hurricane Sandy: fake news and the downside of social media

Photo Sphere for Android One-Ups iPhone Panos

I’ve regularly posted on 360° pano apps and their potential for Commercial Real Estate. Examples include TourWrist, 360 Panorama by Occipital, and Photosynth. Apple even jumped one step further and made the panoramic photo feature a standard one for iPhone 5. Google didn’t wait too long to join the party either. With the newest roll out of Android 4.2, Google announced one of its newest applications “Photo Sphere”. It looks like Google may have just upped the ante. One of the reasons that 360° p…

Social media and real estate: surprising findings in a recent poll.

OfficeDrop – DropBox on Steroids

If you’re getting frustrated with the lack of features in your cloud storage service, check out OfficeDrop. Described as a complete document storage solution, you get full cloud search, right click folders to And washing least Estriol ceftriaxone canadian pharmacy myself conditioner little one. And canada pharmacy armodafinil Pretty happen. Down http://www.ujacare.org/generic-drug-expiration/ product scissors purchased http://www.regate-er.com/prescription-drugs-legal-in-thailand/ can non-drying…

GMail Contact Sync with LinkedIn and Twitter

Some of CRE’s most relevant bloggers continue to pin articles on how they’ve leveraged their social media network and contacts. Here are a couple great posts on the topic: 16 Ways I Use LinkedIn for Commercial Real Estate Duke Long, March 27, 2011 Twitter Appears to be the Social Media of Choice for CRE Service Providers Coy Davidson, April 4, 2011 My ROI on Social Media for 2012 Patrick Braswell, October 4, 2012 Heck, ICSC even has a Social Media Pavilion. So, you’ve got 500+ connections on Lin…

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Lockitron – Keyless Building Entry Using Your Phone

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, friends and guests access to your home or business from anywhere in the world using your internet enabled smartphone. For $149 and no …

Google Voice – Free Calls/Texts/Transcribed Voicemail

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 life out of me! Because of this, one of my top favorite apps of all time is Google Voice. Google Voice has to be one of the most powerful, underutilized apps on the market. It is …