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Spotlight Interview: Vishu Ramanathan/ CEO, Buildout Inc.

February 27, 2017

LDCRE is pleased to announce its listing syndication partnership with Buildout! Buildout is a Commercial Real Estate marketing and document creation platform designed to unburden commercial real estate brokers of much of the administrative work that goes into creating marketing materials and listing properties on the broker’s website, as well as on third party websites. This partnership enables Buildout clients to easily post their listings and updates on LDCRE’s Free Commercial Real Estate Listing Distribution Platform via Buildout.

LD: What career path did you want to take when you were in college?

VR: I wasn’t a career-oriented kid. I wanted to hang out and play in a band. I studied physics in college because I liked physics, not because I thought it would get me a job. Continue reading Spotlight Interview: Vishu Ramanathan/ CEO, Buildout Inc.

Spotlight Interview: Mike Marmis, Managing Director YAM Capital

July 26, 2016

Mike Marmis is the Managing Director of YAM Capital, a Commercial Real Estate bridge lender. YAM Capital is a privately held bridge lending firm with a focus on lending to Arizona Commercial Real Estate. It offers structured and funded bridge loans from $2M to $50MM and prides itself in expediency and certainty of execution. YAM Capital is part of American entrepreneur and philanthropist Bob Parson’s YAM Worldwide group of companies.

LD: What career path did you want to take when you were in college?

MM: My dad was in Real Estate Development so I was always interested in that industry, but I thought my career would take a bit of a different path and after Continue reading Spotlight Interview: Mike Marmis, Managing Director YAM Capital

Let’s Talk About Why Your Listing isn’t seeing any Traction…

May 10, 2016

The listing is solid, but the traction is light, sound familiar? Obviously, the main reason brokers post listings are to sell, or lease properties. Sometimes the listing side does not think about the buying side when they post a listing for lease or for sale. People want all the major specs on the offering before they look into it. If you are leaving out most of the specs (Price, Cap Rate, Location, a Picture), or have “Contact us for more information” posted, you are going to see interest drop of, as people tend to assume the worse and/or that it’s over priced.

Continue reading Let’s Talk About Why Your Listing isn’t seeing any Traction…

Promote Listings in Real-Time on Leavitt Digital via your own Website: LDCRE Launches API

April 22, 2016

LDCRE recently launched its API (Application Program Interface) allowing Commercial Real Estate brokerage firms to connect their inventory directly from their listing platform to Leavitt Digital’s listing platform. This enables CRE brokerage firms to market their listings for FREE on the largest open network, listing platform while saving hundreds of hours of data implementation and data management. Adding, editing, or deleting listings on a company’s website will have the same impact on Leavitt Digital.

Continue reading Promote Listings in Real-Time on Leavitt Digital via your own Website: LDCRE Launches API

CCIM: What is it and what do they provide Commercial Real Estate Professionals?

January 26, 2016

Leavitt Digital recently caught up with David Wilson, CCIM, who was recently elected into office as CCIM President for 2018 and asked Wilson to explain the CCIM Organization. If you are wondering what a CCIM is, you aren’t alone! Only six percent (6%) of all commercial real estate practitioners wear the prestigious CCIM pin and have gone through the extensive educational program to become a CCIM Designee. CCIM stands for Certified Commercial Investment Member. Based in Chicago, IL, the CCIM Institute is an affiliate of the National Association of REALTORS® and has approximately 13,000 members from 31 countries throughout the world. CCIMs are trained experts who can analyze opportunities to help clients make confident, informed choices. Employing a data-driven approach to commercial real estate, CCIMs guide clients’ real estate decisions using financial and market analysis skills, combined with their own experience and knowledge of local and national markets. With a CCIM, clients have access to an educated, deliberate process. Continue reading CCIM: What is it and what do they provide Commercial Real Estate Professionals?

What’s the Deal with LDCRE’s Free Commercial Real Estate Listing & Search Platform?

September 01, 2015

We’ve all used paid listing/ search platforms for CRE in the past. Some of us have paid to list and/or paid to search, while others used the free platform that allow for viewing of all the ugly duckling assets that have been shopped for 60 days that no one wants to buy.

This has been the system ever since Black’s Guide closed their doors. Do you remember Black’s Guide? It may seem like a million years ago, but Black’s Guide closed their doors on July 9, 2010. At one point almost every person in commercial real estate had at least one Black’s Guide asset/ broker directory on the corner of their desk.

The fall of Black’s Guide, was much more than just a company closing its doors; it showed that the CRE industry was ready to embrace technology (to some degree). The fall of Black’s Guide can be attributed to a handful of CRE listing platforms Continue reading What’s the Deal with LDCRE’s Free Commercial Real Estate Listing & Search Platform?

How does the CRE Market know you’re awesome?

Your Company is closing deals (acquisitions, dispositions, development, sales, leasing, finance, etc.), but how does anyone other than the 20 people that saw your LinkedIn post, or Twitter post know that your company is doing a great job?

Nobody likes braggers, but people always like seeing transaction news, market insights, and educated market forecasting. LDCRE Commercial Real Estate News syndicates its articles to 500 news websites throughout the globe, helping our network increase its local and global market reach (for free). Become a contributing author and syndicate Commercial Real Estate News articles via LDCRE News around the globe. Continue reading How does the CRE Market know you’re awesome?