Property Technology (Proptech)

Major real estate companies are increasingly restricting access to their proprietary databases. Data ownership now outweighs transaction volume or brand recognition as the primary source of competitive advantage. James Huang, Managing Director of Commercial Real Estate at RESAAS Services Inc., says the shift is dividing the industry between firms with extensive private data assets and ...

On Friday nights in the 1990s, millions of Americans would drive across town, stand in line at Blockbuster, and hope the movie they wanted was still on the shelf. If it wasn’t, they settled for something else. And if they returned it late? They paid a fee they resented but never questioned. That was just ...

The belief that self-storage is a simple, low-maintenance real estate investment is both inaccurate and increasingly risky, according to Luke Shardlow, CEO of Ai Lean. Shardlow argues that the business requires sophistication across collections, regulatory compliance, pricing, and risk management, factors that are becoming critical as the industry consolidates and competition intensifies. “There is a ...

Relli’s COO explains why real estate syndications desperately needed the same analytical tools that stock investors take for granted. Real estate has always been touted as one of the best investments, but it’s also one of the least accessible when it comes to education and comparison tools. Ross Iannarelli, Co-founder and COO of Relli, built ...

In commercial real estate, the most expensive technology mistake isn’t buying the wrong system. It’s letting your vendors decide what you need. That is the core argument Bill Douglas, CEO of OpticWise, has been making to commercial real estate owners for over a decade and the industry is finally starting to listen. The CRE Vendor ...

Real estate professionals who successfully grow from solo agents into team leaders quickly discover an operational challenge they didn’t anticipate: password and credential management becomes a critical business issue faster than expected. The moment you bring on your first assistant who needs CRM access, or a junior agent who needs MLS credentials, informal password management ...

Michigan-based referral platform to present breakout session at Real Estate Distilled, one of few national conferences focused exclusively on independent brokerages. Realay will attend Real Estate Distilled in Louisville, Kentucky from March 16-18, marking the company’s first major conference appearance since launching its voice AI-powered mobile app in late 2025. The conference, which draws approximately ...

The conversation about artificial intelligence disrupting professional services intensifies weekly. Legal research, radiology interpretation, financial analysis, content creation – entire career categories face genuine automation threats. Yet one profession consistently absent from credible displacement predictions: real estate agents. Scott Spelker of The Spelker Team at Coldwell Banker Realty in Madison, New Jersey, spent 25 years ...

Billionaire-funded “Ambition Accelerated” initiative positions Gold Coast as unified business capital while corporate relocations accelerate The $10 Million Regional Marketing Play Ken Griffin and Stephen Ross each contributed $5 million to launch “Ambition Accelerated,” a national campaign targeting CEOs and founders in high-cost cities with messaging positioning South Florida’s Gold Coast as a unified economic ...

Darwin Stephens explains how luxury high-rise condos are replacing single-family teardowns in Dallas’s most prestigious neighborhoods, and buyers moving to the city without the right strategy are paying for it. Dallas is shifting vertically. Multi-family high-rise developments are emerging across the city, rental prices in luxury towers are breaching $10,000 to $11,000 per month, and ...

The title insurance industry has seen a wave of automation vendors emerge in recent years, but a critical question often gets overlooked: does understanding the technology behind automation mean you understand the processes being automated? Jimmy Lewis, Co-Founder and CEO of TrueFocus Automation, argues that the answer is definitively no. With over 20 years in ...

Real estate technology startup proves that the human touch still matters in an AI-driven world. DETROIT, MI, February 15, 2026 — In an industry racing toward full automation, one Michigan-based real estate technology company is making a counterintuitive bet: that humans still matter more than algorithms when trust is on the line. Ann Filippis, operations ...

The bottleneck holding back advanced air mobility isn’t aircraft certification anymore – it’s identifying which of America’s millions of commercial properties can actually support vertiport infrastructure. Landings just solved that problem with software that can analyze entire real estate portfolios in minutes. Lisa Wright’s team launched beta testing this week for proprietary feasibility software that ...

Commercial real estate is unique among industries, and not in a way owners should celebrate. According to Bill Douglas, CEO of OpticWise and co-author of “Peak Property Performance,” it’s the only industry that routinely allows vendors to install networks in their buildings and extract data from their own assets without compensation or oversight. “I’ve worked ...

From Where has released a curated list of Best Boutique Hotels across major US cities, expanding the platform’s Shop the Space™ model beyond short-term rentals to include the boutique hospitality sector. The directory features properties in metropolitan markets selected through stringent selection criteria evaluating design quality, guest reviews across multiple platforms, and adherence to boutique ...