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The Future of Technology

Incorporating Technology at Every Stage Can Have Significant Benefits By Patrick Burns SFR is a burgeoning sector set to outpace multifamily, office, retail, storage and hospitality growth in 2022. Most sectors of real estate have been a historically local and offline business, with investors specializing in specific markets and only utilizing neighborhood providers to facilitate transactions from start to finish. This means that there is a huge opportunity to introduce

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Mistakes in Manual Mode

Why Excel is Killing Your Lending Business By Erica Sikoski When just starting out in the private lending industry, it takes time to build up your portfolio of clients, partners, and service providers. Spending money right out of the gate on a new software solution seems like a far off goal. So, when new private lenders are starting and have limited resources, Microsoft Excel seems like the perfect software solution

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Casting a Wider Net

Technology Has Made It Easier to Surface Auction Properties By Kathleen Lappe When you hear the term real estate auction, it is not surprising that your thoughts likely turn to desperate sellers or bank-owned properties, and rightfully so. During the 2007 housing crisis, auctions were an effective way to unload thousands of foreclosed properties, and real estate investors were able to snap them up at a significant discount. Today, as

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Real Estate Technology Today

Using the Power of Technology from Acquisition Through Disposition By Adam Stern There is a widely accepted principle called Moore’s law that states the speed of technology will double every two years, so to say technology is advancing at a meteoric pace is cliché. Technology is the backbone of turning a small business into a scalable enterprise and making processes and access to data easier and quicker. When talking about

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Tech Platforms

Technology is No Longer Effective When It Stands Alone By Peter A. Gudmundsson Parents of elementary age children will remember well the experience of sitting in a teacher conference and hearing that their child “plays well with others.” This early indicator of interpersonal behavior is a key predictor of later-in-life social skills that will determine career placement and success and emotional happiness with friends and family. Technology adoptions in real

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Uncharted Territory in Digital Transformation

Ready or Not, Be Prepared to Change and Adapt to New and Evolving Ideas By Mark Wai For years, prognosticators have been saying that virtually every aspect of the residential real estate industry, including real estate investment, is poised to be dramatically reshaped by emerging technologies. You’ve heard the buzzwords a million times: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Blockchain. What you’ve probably heard less of is an answer to

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