“Reviews consistently show that property managers’ biggest failing is responsiveness. Most one-star reviews cite unanswered calls and unreturned messages,” says Lindsay Liu, co-founder and CEO of Super, highlighting a persistent challenge in the property management industry that her company aims to solve through artificial intelligence. The Technology Shift in Property Management Property management has traditionally ...
Despite having the financial and technological muscle to do so, major tech companies are deliberately steering clear of replacing the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) system, a decision that industry experts say reflects the hidden complexities of real estate market infrastructure. “Who wants to be the MLS? It’s like taking over the motor vehicle department. Think ...
Small municipalities may hold the key to scaling next-generation water treatment solutions, according to AirBuild CTO Ejike Ken-Opurum, who says these communities offer ideal conditions for testing and implementing new environmental technologies. “The best use cases for our product right now in these early stages would be small municipalities,” Ken-Opurum says. “Smaller communities have larger ...
The real estate industry is on the cusp of a dramatic shift in how agents manage client relationships, according to Cyrus Mohseni, Co-Founder & Vice President of Strategy and Growth at The Keystone Team. Mohseni argues that artificial intelligence will soon make traditional Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems obsolete. The End of Manual Client Management ...
The real estate industry is approaching a technological tipping point that will force many agents out of the business, according to Cyrus Mohseni, Co-Founder & Vice President of Strategy and Growth at The Keystone Team. Mohseni says the industry’s adoption of artificial intelligence will create a divide as significant as when the Multiple Listing Service ...
The path to widespread carbon capture adoption may mirror the internet’s evolution, according to AirBuild CEO David Gory, who argues that localized solutions are key to driving broader implementation. “Carbon capture isn’t going to spread or become a thing until we can decentralize it, just like the Internet didn’t become a theme until everybody had ...
“Bifurcate or die”is the battle cry echoing through the hemp industry today, as Ray Kaderli, founder of Hemp Build Network, explains the urgent need to separate industrial hemp from its cannabinoid-producing cousin. This separation isn’t just about regulatory clarity, it’s about establishing industrial hemp as a legitimate construction material that can address both environmental concerns ...
Brooke Pfautz, CEO of Vintory, says the vacation rental industry faces a predictable pattern of unpredictable disruptions that demands new thinking about business resilience. “Every seven to 10 years, there’s some kind of a black swan event,” Pfautz observes, drawing on his 17 years of industry experience. “Look at 2001 with 9/11, 2007-2008 with the ...
The vacation rental industry is facing a transparency crisis that’s holding back both property owners and managers, according to Brooke Pfautz, CEO of Comparent, who draws a striking parallel with the evolution of car buying. “It’s never been a transparent process,” Pfautz says. “Just like buying a car used to be, you’d waste weekends going ...
A groundbreaking analysis of over 6,000 vacation rental companies reveals an unexpected truth: mid-sized operators are consistently outperforming larger competitors in key quality metrics, according to new data from Comparent. “Most market leaders are middle-sized companies, from 50 to 200 properties,” says Brooke Pfautz, CEO of Comparent. “Some of the larger companies like Casago and ...
“We are a project data hub,” explains Ron Nussbaum, Founder of BuilderComs, with the confidence of someone who’s found a critical gap in the market. “We collect all this data around the project, the information that is either sitting on your phone, sitting on your desk, or lost in your emails somewhere, we give it ...
Technology is rapidly changing how real estate transactions are handled, bringing new levels of speed and simplicity to processes once known for complexity. At the center of this shift is Deferred, a FinTech startup aiming to transform the 1031 exchange process, a crucial tool for real estate investors looking to defer capital gains taxes. “We ...
“The most optimized building doesn’t have to be the most expensive, nor does the best performing building require the highest cost. Optimization means considering all different perspectives and making informed decisions based on available data,” says Sheida Shahi, CEO of Adaptis, a Toronto-based company revolutionizing how building owners approach capital projects and asset management. The ...
“When you use resources, you’ve got to pay for the resources,” says Barret Blondeau, Founder and CEO of Falaya, a tech-forward real estate platform that’s reimagining how homes are sold. This straightforward philosophy drives Falaya’s mission to create a more efficient real estate transaction process for everyone involved. In an industry where traditional models have ...
Twelve years ago, a small team working out of a garage in Israel set out to make complex spatial data easier to understand. Today, their company is changing how entire cities are seen and shaped. “We started with the idea of making something more simple. That was the idea of simplex, taking something complex and ...
