CRETech – Commercial Real Estate News

Establishing the New Norm for Marketing CRE Listings

November 13, 2018

Marketing commercial real estate listings in the U.S. through third-party platforms first began with Black’s Guide in 1976, a catalog containing CRE listings in major metropolitan markets. LoopNet and Costar are credited for bringing CRE listings online.

Over the years a few CRE listing platforms have come and gone, but online listing platforms have remained fragmented and adverse to cooperation with each other.

The lack of cooperation between CRE listing platforms forces agents to either manually enter their listings into multiple platforms, or more likely pick one platform and hope for the best. This resulted in a tremendous amount of time wasted. Continue reading Establishing the New Norm for Marketing CRE Listings

Top apps for Commercial Real Estate Agents

November 05, 2018

Utilizing technology is a great way to improve your workflows and the level of service you can provide for your clients. Whether you are generating content for marketing purposes, generating leads, or just managing your business activities, here are 5 great tools to help you make more commercial real estate deals.

Microsoft OneDrive

OneDrive integrates with Microsoft Office, so users can easily access Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents anywhere through the cloud. The system allows users to simultaneously edit documents and create and share folders. Need to share property photos that are too big for email? Share a link to the folder using OneDrive! It is a great way for you to manage your property content between your smartphone and your computer. Continue reading Top apps for Commercial Real Estate Agents

Commercial Real Estate Portfolio Management Software that Cooperates with your Other Software

September 05, 2018

Commercial Real Estate Portfolio Management Software has finally been made simple. After making a name for themselves with their residential analyzer software, the seasoned team at STRATAFOLIO have created a CRE Portfolio Management Software that communicates with other software, eliminating double data entry and mitigating the errors that come along with it.

We’re all familiar with the adage you can’t manage what you can’t measure. Although most people would agree with this statement, many companies jump through hoops putting measuring into practice. A vast majority of companies are not able to accomplish this even if they wanted to. If this is you, you are not alone. Measuring and monitoring for many commercial real estate organizations that manage real estate are complicated. An Altus report stated that nearly 78% of organizations worldwide use multiple software systems that don’t communicate with each other. This structure makes understanding global cash flow, asset performance, and overall expenses very hard. Continue reading Commercial Real Estate Portfolio Management Software that Cooperates with your Other Software

Building Bridges not Walls, the Future of Commercial Real Estate

March 16, 2018

Commercial Real Estate Technology (CRE Tech) firms have emerged addressing a number of industry challenges, which have long been accepted as normal. A few of the solutions are enhancing Customer Relationship Management (CRM), centralizing information sharing, simplifying the creation of marketing materials, increasing the quality of market data, and increasing market reach on offerings. Each CRE Tech Company offers beneficial solutions, but what is most important is the value these CRE Tech firms collectively offer to their clients. Continue reading Building Bridges not Walls, the Future of Commercial Real Estate

Apto Connects to LDCRE

March 13, 2018

LDCRE is pleased to announce Apto has connected to LDCRE’s Commercial Real
Estate Listing Distribution Platform, enabling Apto clients to easily syndicate CRE listings to LDCRE and its network of 500 news websites throughout the world.

“This is a win-win-win solution,” Says Brendan Hotchkiss of LDCRE “it allows Apto to offer greater market reach to its clients for free, it enables Apto’s clients to push their listings to 500 news websites with the click of a button for free, and it allows LDCRE to better serve investors and tenants searching properties for sale or lease on LDCRE.com and throughout LDCRE’s publisher network by increasing listing inventory.” Continue reading Apto Connects to LDCRE

Commercial Real Estate Listing Distribution Platform Grows in Multiples

February 21, 2018

LDCRE is a free commercial real estate listing distribution platform that allows
brokerage firms to connect their listing inventory directly to LDCRE.com through an API (Application Program Interface). Once the connection is set up all new listings and listing edits flow from the broker/brokerage firm to LDCRE on auto-pilot without any further work by the broker/brokerage firm.

LDCRE set out to not only be a free CRE listing platform, but to be a CRE Listing Distribution Platform with the largest distribution network of news websites where LDCRE powers the CRE listings. In the beginning of 2017 LDCRE was distributing CRE listings to 3 news websites in NYC, Chicago, and Scottsdale. By the close of 2017 LDCRE grew its distribution publisher network from 3 to 500 (Domestic and International news websites). “Our team has worked very hard growing our network for a couple years; it was not an overnight success by any means. A few key elements that aided us in rapidly growing our publisher network were growing LDCRE’s commercial real estate listing inventory from 20 markets to 9,000 markets throughout 32 countries, LDCRE has grown its total for sale CRE assets to $150 Billion, through the many great relationships our team has developed over the years,” said Brendan Hotchkiss CEO of LDCRE.

LDCRE continues to grow its listings on a daily basis with 2,000+ new/updated listings flowing into its platform on a daily basis.

CRE Marketing Plans for 2016 & Maximizing CRETech

November 17, 2015

It’s the bottom of the 9th for 2015 and time to start designing your CRE Marketing plan for 2016. Now is the time to layout your goals for 2016, not January 5th after everyone has gained 10 pounds and feeling gloom.

Commercial Real Estate Companies are becoming more and more active in implementing technology products so they may operate more efficiently and increase business opportunities. However, the Commercial Real Estate Industry has a lot of room for improvement.

Leavitt Digital conducted a survey where it ran tests on 300 commercial real estate firms throughout the United States. The average online presence rating over the top 50 local websites was 32%. Continue reading CRE Marketing Plans for 2016 & Maximizing CRETech