Category: CRE Trends
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Cheat Sheet: Selecting Essential Property Management KPIs
Established property management key performance indicators (KPIs) set operationally effective commercial real estate organizations apart from their peers because these organizations have the ability to use these metrics to make productive decisions leading to profitable business outcomes. Today, many CRE organizations have multiple technology solutions collecting a vast amount of data. As this enormous amount of data…
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CRE Tech Trends Affecting the Occupant Experience
We recently participated in a Realcom webinar, “Technology and the Impact to a Commercial Real Estate Strategy,” with other industry leaders from Washington REIT, GSA, IoTium, Lynxspring, and Corning to discuss the latest trends and technologies emerging in commercial real estate and how they are changing the landscape. The CRE industry, once seen as a technology laggard, now has…
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How Technology Impacts Your Emergency Preparedness Plan
We recently partnered with BOMA (Building Owners and Managers Association) International on a report that identifies commercial real estate technology trends in 2018. September is emergency preparedness month, so to #BEprepared and protect your building from emergency risk below are a few tips from the Technology Trends report. How safe and secure your building or portfolio is directly…
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3 Tips for Navigating the Ever-Expanding CRE Tech Landscape
At the BOMA International Conference we attended a few weeks ago, we heard a statistic from Henry Chamberlain, President and COO of BOMA International, that stuck with us: In 2017 there were 3,500 CRE tech solutions and in 2018 there are about 4,200 CRE tech solutions. That’s a 20% increase in less than one year!…
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How Startups Impact CRE Tech Innovation
Last week we had the chance to catch up with Shaw Lupton, Senior Managing Consultant of CoStar Portfolio Strategy, on the latest episode of CRE Tech Talks. During the podcast, Shaw addressed the red-hot topic of startup tech companies and how they are changing the CRE tech industry as well as what this means for…
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8 Things You May Not Know about Building Engines (from our VentureFizz Feature)
The team at Building Engines is celebrating an exciting feature story in VentureFizz “Building Engines: A Property Management Software Success Story“ Even with a growing number of real estate tech companies in the Boston area, it’s clear that Building Engines has solidified itself as a major player in the industry. It has a platform built…
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Get Ready for the Next Era of Tenant Communications
Building Owners and Managers: Meet Tenants Where They Are Understatement of the millennium (so far): The ways we communicate with each other have changed. Just look at the sheer volume of activity that occurs within messaging apps in one minute: – 18 million text messages sent – 38 million messages shared through WhatsApp – 25,000…
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The Future of the Tenant Experience is Conversational
Last week, CRE Tech and MIT put on a fantastic meet-up event in Boston. For anyone who has been to enough of these, it was easy to tell the tone of discussion about technology in the CRE industry is a lot more sophisticated than it was even a couple of years ago. One of the…
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98% Customer Satisfaction Rating Across 30M+ Square Feet: The Highwoods Story
Highwoods Properties, Building Engines Client Spotlight Series Transcription “My name is Catherine Bradshaw. I’m the manager of customers service at Highwoods Properties. Highwoods Properties’ corporate office is located in Raleigh, North Carolina. We manage over 250 properties all throughout the Southeast in just over 30 million square feet. Our focus is commercial real estate and…
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WeWork Acquires Conductor: What that Means for the CRE Industry
What does the WeWork acquisition of Conductor mean for the Commercial Real Estate industry? While WeWork’s ambitious goals should be no surprise to anyone paying attention, this move might seem a little puzzling to CRE. It shouldn’t be. WeWork’s most recent growth has been driven by the enterprise – organizations with 1000+ employees. They now say…