Tour24’s self-guided apartment tours are catching on — is residential next?

Tour24 is an app that helps prospective renters tour apartments on their own. A leasing office can determine the hours the app allows, monitor time-in and out, and set the schedules for the validity of the smart lock’s access code. Continue reading

MoxiWorks offers agent discount on wearable safety device

MoxiWorks has partnered with safety device company Revolar Technology to offer agents a discount for one of the company’s wearables. Continue reading

Say hello to ‘Millie,’ a new AI assistant for property managers, tenants

Whether it’s explaining trash disposal, providing lease information or coordinating a visit by a plumber, communicating with tenants costs time and money for property managers and landlords. Continue reading

‘Survival of the fittest’: Real estate pros predict far fewer agents

There are more than a million agents in the U.S. right now, but if some of the industry’s leaders are right that number is poised to get much smaller. Continue reading

Keller Williams wants to be Redfin

Keller Williams has famously declared itself a “technology company” and is investing heavily in software, but it turns out the firm has an even more specific goal in mind: It wants to be Redfin. Continue reading

Compass doesn’t care if it builds or buys its technology: Reffkin

A month and a half after Compass surprised the real estate industry by snatching up CRM maker Contractually, Robert Reffkin said he doesn’t care if his company builds or buys its technology. Continue reading

Why Are Family Caregiving Questions Missing From the 2020 Census?

As our nation awaits for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the Trump administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, two important questions affecting more than 43.5 million Americans won’t be asked at all. The missing question… Continue reading

After a Serious Fall, a Closer Bond

My husband and I were in the shower together. He was washing my hair, something he’s never done before. I was moaning with pleasure, but not in any sexy way. There’s nothing erotic about a 55-year-old woman sitting on a plastic stool in the shower swat… Continue reading

How to Get the Health Benefits of Cannabis Without Getting High

For many of us who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s, smoking pot (also called marijuana or cannabis) was an integral part of the social scene. But whether we never touched the stuff, gave it up decades ago or still maintain a relationship with the pl… Continue reading

What is organized real estate’s role in keeping the Realtor relevant?

Is it naive to think that Canadian Organized Real Estate’s current approach to the collection and interpretation of data will ensure its relevance, and that of the Realtor, as the industry and technology continue to evolve? Quite simply, yes, it is. Wh… Continue reading