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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HouseCanary Forges Ahead in the World of Automated Real Estate Data and Valuation By Carole VanSickle Ellis Real estate investors know all about waiting, but Jeremy Sicklick and Christopher Stroud, co-founders of valuation-focused real estate brokerage HouseCanary, really do not like to wait. That is particularly the case when it comes to waiting on information that could help determine the value of a potential property acquisition in a competitive market.
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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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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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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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What’s Going On and What It Might Mean for Real Estate in 2022 By Carole VanSickle Ellis On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. The invasion was a continuation and escalation of conflict initiated in 2014 when Russia invaded and ultimately annexed Crimea, a peninsular country bordered by the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, and Ukraine. Russian marine access has been a point of contention in this region since
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