Study Underscores How Home Performance Shapes the True Cost of Ownership CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 23, 2026 – Pearl, an independent standards and ratings organization that defines and measures home performance, today announced that its Pearl SCORE™ data has powered a new Realtor.com® study quantifying how a home’s performance shapes its total cost of ownership – ...
Most title companies that reach out about automation have a clear sense that something in their operation is taking too long or costing too much. What they rarely have is a number. No cost-per-transaction figure. No estimate of how many staff hours go into a given process each month. No projection of what it would ...
It is no longer a question of whether buyers and sellers are using AI to search for real estate agents. They are. The more relevant question now is whether your name is coming up when they do. According to Steve Marcinuk, co-founder of KeyCrew Media, a real estate intelligence and media company that works with ...
If you’re thinking about listing your home in Fairfield or New Haven County, there’s a good chance you’ve already looked up an automated estimate of what your home might be worth. And there’s a good chance that number is now stuck in your head, for better or worse. According to Kristin Egmont, a Connecticut real ...
If you own a waterfront property and your FEMA flood map shows low risk, you might feel like you have nothing to worry about. That feeling could be one heavy rainstorm away from costing you everything. Albert Slap, founder of RiskFootprint™, has spent more than a decade working with property owners, lenders, and due diligence ...
Most commercial real estate brokers spend the first ten minutes of a site visit looking at the ceiling height and the loading docks. Logan Freeman, founder of Kansas City-based Midwest CRE Advisors, spends his time looking at the electrical room. That difference is why his firm is closing edge data center transactions in secondary Midwest ...
Accredited investors with millions in net worth routinely make investment decisions they would never make in their primary business. They invest in real estate syndications based on trust in a person rather than verification of facts. Then they wonder why deals underperform. Mor Milo, co-founder and CEO of Relli, works with both operators and investors ...
The home watch industry has a positioning problem. And it is costing small operators clients, credibility, and in some cases, their entire business model. According to Clem McDavid, founder of HomeLedger, the confusion between home watch and traditional property management is one of the most persistent obstacles facing operators trying to grow. “Once they put ...
There are two completely different categories of technology inside a commercial real estate building. Most ownership groups treat them as one. That mistake is costing them more than they realize. Bill Douglas, CEO of OpticWise, has spent years watching property owners hand operational technology decisions to people who were never trained for them. And according ...
Christopher Tiessen grew up between two engineering cultures. Now he’s applying what Europe figured out decades ago to some of the most constrained development sites in the United States. When Christopher Tiessen talks about parking, he is not talking about parking. He is talking about land: who controls it, how much it costs, and what ...
The conversation around vertiports is fundamentally changing. Six months ago, commercial real estate owners arriving at infrastructure developers came with basic questions about what vertiports even were. Now, property owners are arriving with foundational understanding already in place, asking specific questions about infrastructure feasibility and partnership structures. Lisa Wright, founder of Landings, has observed this ...
Somewhere in a neighborhood near you, a volunteer is checking the mailbox for HOA dues. It is probably not a daily task – more like every few days, whenever they remember. When the checks come in, someone opens them, records who paid, adds the total to a spreadsheet, and eventually makes a trip to the ...
BOCA RATON, FL, May 22, 2026 – RiskFootprint™, the leading provider of parcel-level hazard and climate intelligence for real estate and financial decision-makers, has announced the launch of RiskFootprint™ + Microsoft Copilot, a new workflow that delivers instant, defensible hazard and climate summaries from any RiskFootprint™ report. The integration pairs RiskFootprint™’s peer-reviewed, multi-agency hazard intelligence ...
Featured responses from KeyCrew’s 3,500-expert intelligence network. As AI accelerates the value of clean, connected real estate data, the proptech stacks most operators are working with are getting more brittle, not less. In responses collected by KeyCrew Media in April 2026, real estate operators, brokers, and proptech executives found a near-universal diagnosis: the problem isn’t ...
When capital flows into a single asset class faster than almost any other in recent memory, the instinct is to chase the headline. In 2025, data centers accounted for roughly a third of all global private real estate funding, a figure that would have seemed implausible five years ago, when the asset class was still ...
