Category: CRE Trends
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Building Engines and Other CRE Professionals Talk “Data” at BOMA
As a provider of building operations software, we live and breathe data. We thrive on helping property management teams get a grasp of what to do with “all that information”. So we are very excited for the opportunity to educate the masses about how to turn all that information into useful data. Building Engines Senior…
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Actionable Intelligence, Let Me Shake Your Hand
Over a decade ago, when we first released our Property and Tenant Management System, it felt like we were standing alone on a soap box with a megaphone trying to inform the CRE masses of the infinite value that technology can bring to operations and tenant service. Back then, we heard a lot of push…
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(A Little) Confidence Grows for Commercial Real Estate Sector
Despite the increased confidence, the commercial real estate remains dependent on the rest of the economy to see sustained growth. Without job creation and additional expansion by organizations, there will be little demand for new facilities. “We are not rebounding from the recent swoon,” Jacob Oubina, an economist at RBC Capital Markets, told Reuters. “We are just…
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Property Management Mobile Usage Study Proves Industry Needs
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 our mobile…
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Funny Friday: Mother’s Day Cards from Property Managers
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Infographic: BYOD- The Good, the Bad, the Uncertain
70 million employees are projected to have enterprise access through mobile devices by 2015. At the same time, 8000 petabytes of data is projected to be stolen in North America alone. A petabyte you ask? Well to put that into perspective, one petabyte is roughly one million gigabytes, or…a lot. Statistics such as these have…
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Work Starts at 9:00. BYOD?
Not to be mistaken with BYOB – an HR nightmare waiting to happen, BYOD stands for Bring Your Own Device. This means that an organization makes it policy that employees use their own devices – Smartphone, tablet, PC, or other personal devices within the workplace. Sounds like a win-win right? You don’t have to pay…
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New Tech Tools Give Tenants a Voice
We are excited to announce high adoption and usage numbers of the new tenant satisfaction and feedback tools recently added to our Work Order Manager. The new functionality closes the feedback loop allowing tenants to submit service requests online, track the progress of work in real-time, and provide feedback at any point along the way with…
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IREM Member Injured in Boston Marathon Explosions
Roseann Sdoia is VP of Property Management at National Development and an active member of IREM who was injured in the Boston Marathon bombings, losing one leg above the knee. Family and friends of Roseann are now reaching out for help from the community in order to help pay for the hospital bills that she…
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The Changing Skills of Today’s Real Estate Manager
In the roundtable discussion, The Incredibly Expanding Job: Changing Demands & Skill Sets of Real Estate Managers, five panelists addressed such issues and the impact emerging technologies have on the position.