Category: CRE Trends

  • And the Award Goes To…

    Congratulations to Implementation Project Manager Nick Krone on receiving the 2014 Q3 Building Engines Mission Award.

  • Your Website = Your Success

    The days of flipping through ads of a phonebook are over. Sending a pamphlet through the mail gets placed in the junk pile without a second thought. If a customer is going to find you, it’s going to be online. And in a highly competitive Commercial Real Estate market, your online image can go a…

  • Navigating the Rocky Waters of App Updates: Is Your Software Provider Prepared for Action?

    As our use of smartphones and tablets – and the business apps we use on them – continues to increase, our need for those apps to be available and functioning is becoming more and more “mission critical.”

  • Building Engines Proudly Sponsoring BOMA Boston’s Fallfest

    We’re excited to be attending and sponsoring BOMA Boston’s annual Fallfest, which takes place tonight at 5:30 p.m. at the Hard Rock Cafe in Boston.

  • Take 5 with Rosa Smith

    This month’s customer spotlight shines on Rosa Smith, Property Services Manager at Colliers International – Atlanta. Rosa has been with the CRE company for nearly 10 years and has seamlessly led the Atlanta division through a software switch to Building Engines.

  • Maybe all Trends Really Do Start in the West?

    That’s what they say about fashion and food anyway. But after having the opportunity to attend and participate in the recent IREM Asset & Property Management Symposium in San Francisco, it may just have some truth for real estate as well.

  • Become a Champion in the Eyes of Your Tenants

    Over the past year, you may have heard about the Boston Red Sox going from worst to first in baseball – and becoming world champions! According to Bleacher Report and many diehard fans, Red Sox GM Ben Cherington formulated the winning strategy that fashioned the 2013 World Series Championship.

  • Migrating Your Property Management Platform is Easier Than Thought

    After a few months of vetting half a dozen Property Management Software providers, you finally decide on a platform. Success! However, soon after, a sense of panic overcomes you when you realize that you’re in charge of migrating EVERYTHING over to the new platform. Where do you start? Who should be involved?

  • The Catalyst of Crisis: Committing to Creating and Sustaining Change

    A well-worn aphorism tells us that “if you’re not moving forward, you’re moving backwards” – a notion that presupposes that the world – your world, your business, and your competition – are always moving. So you too must move with them, or better yet ahead of them, if you plan to succeed. In business, change…

  • “How much does your property management software cost?”

    I suppose I feel a little like Penn and Teller – about to share secrets from the murky world of sales, exposing my peers in SaaS technology companies and incurring their wrath. But if it makes for good ratings (or shares/retweets in this case) I’m told it’s worth it by my marketing colleagues.