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  • A Retailer’s Dream: TAS Mobile App

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    Trade Area Systems (TAS) has one of the most robust mobile Trade Area mapping and research applications in today’s marketplace. What does TAS Mobile do? From the company’s product description: TAS Mobile on the iPad gives you mapping, demographic reports, aerials and bird-eye imagery as well as access to you company’s TAS Unity knowledge-base wherever you are. You have the full-power of TAS Online on a portable platform. If you deal with potential tenants or clients you can easily answer their …

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  • 5 Must Have iPhone Apps for CRE Investment Brokers

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    After 30 or so reviews on CRE App Review, here’s our top 5 must-have iPhone apps for CRE Investment Brokers: 1. Real Capital Analytics Transaction Search. By far the most exhaustive database of investment-grade commercial property sale comparables. This app allows you to carry  $5 trillion of sale comps in your pocket. It even allows you to map comps surrounding a specific address, which is great when you’re in the field or on a property tour. 2. Real Estate Back of the Envelope. While it’s not …

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  • CityMaps for CRE: Retailer Logo API?

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    When I first saw a screenshot of CityMaps application, I got excited. It appeared that they built a way to automate the tedious task of placing area retailer logos on maps for marketing purposes. After reading more, it appears to be just another Social/Deals/Reviews site with hardly any commercial estate application or benefit. But if they’ve got the logos and locations already organized in such a way, couldn’t someone use an API to pull them into an application which could help the CRE industr…

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  • StatPlanet – Interactive Map Visualization

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    Here’s something for all you map fanatics – StatPlanet, an interactive map creator. It’s free, open source software that includes free maps and data sets (approximately 2-4 years old). Besides the map visualizer, there’s a data visualizer, StatTrends, which you can use to create interactive charts from the same data sets. StatPlanet comes in a web based or desktop (lite, basic, plus) version so you can pick the one that meets your needs. Some versions allow you to import your own data (Excel, c…

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  • Summly: Instantly Summarized Results

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    Too much stuff to read?  Try out Summly for iPhone/iPad.  It works 2 ways.  In the search scenario, enter your keywords and instead of returning a bunch of cryptic titles, it provides a brief summary for each web page returned.  Click on one and you’ll get a condensed version of the article – 3 bullet points summarizing what its algorithm determines are the most salient points.  You can also type in a URL directly and get the bullet point summary.  A link to the web page is right at the top in c…

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  • RentPost: Property Management the way it should be

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    I first learned about RentPost while reading a blog post on Startup Riot SHOW in Atlanta which took place last month, and immediately wanted to write a review on it. RentPost is a cloud-based property management platform. While the cloud is nothing new for CRM, household-name CRE property management tools like MRI and Yardi have been slow to embrace the cloud computing trend. From the RentPost’s AngelList product description: RentPost is property management software in the cloud, supporting prop…

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  • Ten Eight: Yelp for Office Buildings

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    We’ve all conducted office space tours with 10 different company officers in tow: the COO, the IT guy, the head of HR and the lunch lady. (Why is she here?? Ooohh, she’s the CEO’s mother-in-law’s niece.) Everyone likes different buildings for different reasons. The COO wants covered parking, IT is looking for a bunker with raised floors, HR is scoping out the file cabinet space potential, and Gabbie the lunch lady wants a cushy bathroom to kickback in after Taco Tuesdays. Never before were these…

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  • DropBox vs. iCloud: In it to win it?

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    Over the last week or two, I’ve read several articles on how Apple is angling to go head-to-head with DropBox with such vigor that DropBox risks never seeing another Apple user sign up for its service. Pandodaily’s Farhad Majoo, Steve Jobs was right: Dropbox is a feature, not a product: Dropbox is one of the few genuinely delightful tools I use regularly, and I’m constantly recommending it to friends and family. And yet I’m extremely skeptical about Dropbox’s business prospects, and totally puzz…

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  • Need Comps? Get $5 trillion on your iPhone

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    Real Capital Analytics recently released an iPhone app. It’s an invaluable app to have for in-office meetings or while conducting a market tour.  Drive by a building and want to know when it last sold and for how much? More than likely, you can find the comp with this app. From the developer: Real Capital Analytics is the only global provider of commercial real estate intelligence, and this mobile tool is designed for on-the-go users of RCAnalytics.com data. Get the details on commercial proper…

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  • Tired of cutting and pasting emails? Try ToutApp

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    Ever feel like you resend the same email over and over all week when you get a new listing? Want to know if your email was read or a link was clicked? Tout coordinates and streamlines your emails with templates and allows you to schedule and track them, too. From the developer’s AppStore description: ToutApp lets you: Create email templates (even with file attachments) on your desktop computer Send out these templated emails quickly right from your iPhone See in real-time whether the person has…

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