Category: CRE Trends
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Pick a Platform, Any Platform
Howard Roth’s article “Real Estate Transparency: Property Management’s Turn” is a call to arms for property owners and property managers alike. Roth suggests that asset managers are becoming too complacent with building management, and base their contracts on the convenience of existing relationships rather than “property management credentials.”
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Property Management Software and Space Management Play Nice Together
Space management? Isn’t that a just leasing “thing”? Not anymore! Property management software and space management have been courting each other for a while now and have officially decided to tie the knot. Sorry, leasing.
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Businesses Leave BlackBerry Behind As Android Dominates
Apple’s share in the worldwide smartphone operating system market posted a year-over-year decline during the second quarter of 2013. Meanwhile, Android and Windows Phone both managed slight increases during the same period.
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The Big Picture: Untethered Property Management
They say a picture is worth 1000 words, and while we have written well over 1000 words on the benefits of mobile property management, we decided to offer a visual guide to untethering your operations with BE-Mobile. Whether you’re debating a big mobile move or instituting a BYOD policy, you’ll find out how your mobile…
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The Property Team’s Guide To Destroying Productivity
Lack of workforce efficiency is not just a frustrating reality – it’s a costly one. Every day property management teams strive to boost their bottom line and increase tenant satisfaction, but sometimes there are roadblocks on the path to CRE success. Many factors can lead to decreased productivity, from tackling too many tasks to forgoing…
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The Mobile Landscape For CRE Operators
Mobile devices have rapidly gone from “nice to have” for early adopters to ubiquitous work tools. The concept of accessing the Internet from anywhere, at any time, continues to have a growing impact on commercial real estate owners and managers. Building Engines, a provider of a comprehensive property operations management system, has released “The Definitive…
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Inside An Offline Mobile App
Now that mobile technology is allowing property management teams to be productive away from their desks, the last thing you want to deal with is connectivity issues. Whether there’s a glitch with your mobile WiFi or you’re in a dead zone, the ability to use property and tenant management apps when not connected to the…
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Laws of Attraction: How To Entice New Tenants Through Your CRE Site
Drawing in new tenants can be an arduous task. It doesn’t matter how much your property has to offer if you aren’t advertising those details effectively to potential clients.
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Mobile Usage Study Proves Need for Offline and Multi-Platform Support
The Great Mobility Debate has been rearing it’s head a lot lately at various industry conferences. This inevitably leads to questions regarding BYOD vs. platform standardization, connectivity requirements, and data sync between the work of maintenance techs in the field and a centralized online database. This sparked our own interest about how customers were using…
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Free Your Mind… And Your Inbox
As Building Engines SVP Scott Sidman recently discussed at BOMA 2013, the “Big Data” paradox is that while businesses in all industries are increasingly automating their operating procedures and adding advanced systems, they are losing productivity.