Establishing the New Norm for Marketing CRE Listings


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

Building Bridges not Walls, the Future of Commercial Real Estate

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

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

Spotlight Interview: Vishu Ramanathan/ CEO, Buildout Inc.

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.

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