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Hardware is the Missing Piece to Cracking Bloomberg (Transmission #280)

💡CRYSTAL TRANSMISSION: Thought-provoking long-form articles covering a wide spectrum from innovative shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war to the implications of floating cities seen from beaches far and wide. Curious? Additional examples. Proptech's Leader has Been Crashing Our

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Deriving at Software Decisions with AI (Transmission #279)

As always, links surrounded by the ❇️ emoji indicate exclusive GEM Diamond content. If you would like to have access to all links, please consider GEM Diamond membership. Practicing agents, big and small landlords, and general contractors all have to evaluate the software that will serve as the spine of their

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State of the GEM 2024 (Transmission 278)

Editor's Note: The below essay was originally published for members of the GEM Diamond, Geek Estate's executive level networking group. This is the 4th year publishing our "State of the Union" (historical links at the bottom of this article) and we spend hours compiling

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Flipping the CRE Script: Paying Your Tenants (Transmission #276)

Written by: Duke Long  [Adapted from Duke’s newsletter on December 14th, 2023] 💡CRYSTAL TRANSMISSION: Thought-provoking long-form articles covering a wide spectrum from innovative shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war to the implications of floating cities seen from beaches far

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Walking Down Memory Lane (Transmission #274)

💡CRYSTAL TRANSMISSION: Thought-provoking long-form articles covering a wide spectrum from innovative shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war to the implications of floating cities seen from beaches far and wide. Curious? Additional examples. Proptech's Leader has Been Crashing on

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Gifting is Great. But Getting Paid Back is Better (Transmission #273)

💡CRYSTAL TRANSMISSION: Thought-provoking long-form articles covering a wide spectrum from innovative shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war to the implications of floating cities seen from beaches far and wide. Curious? Additional examples: Proptech's Leader has Been Crashing Our

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Proptech Highlight: Owned Local Services (Transmission #271)

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Real Estate by Pieces: Is the Sky Falling or Just Splintering? (Transmission #269)

By: Sam Westelman Commission pressure is here. In the wake of Realogy/Anywhere ($83.5 million) and RE/MAX ($55 million) settling with the plaintiffs in the Burnett and Moehrl lawsuits, it’s clear a thing or two will change. Part of those settlements stipulate that agents are no longer

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Achieving Creative Product Nirvana (Transmission #267)

As always, links surrounded by the ❇️ emoji indicate exclusive GEM Diamond content. If you would like to have access to all links, please consider GEM Diamond membership. My goal with every GEM article, whether that be a Radar entry or a full-fledged Transmission, is to prompt deep thinking. To delve

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Short Curious. We’ve Got You (Newsletter #266)

Editor's Corner: Links surrounded by the ❇️ emoji indicate exclusive GEM Diamond content. If you would like to have access to all links, please consider GEM Diamond membership. Short-, mid-, and long-term are morphing into one. ❇️ Zumper made the jump last year❇️, and I asked “how long until Zillow

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Proptech Highlight: A Blanket Solution for a Nuanced Problem (Newsletter #265)

EDITOR'S CORNER: In this Transmission, we explore how Blanket's property management dashboard is being leveraged to build an off-market brokerage platform for property managers to help retain their doors under management. Trust me, it makes more sense as we get into it.  -DM Keep your doors

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An Unlikely Pinch Hitter Knocks a Homerun (Newsletter #264)

We’re going on four weeks since the ransomware attack on Rapattoni Corporation led to the “paraly[sis of] servers hosting multiple listing services with hundreds of thousands of members.” Rapattoni’s Association Management System and its IdP were also brought to their knees. A week later, the situation had

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Don’t Discount the Merits of a Friction-full Transaction (Newsletter #263)

Friction is good, not bad. At least in a residential real estate context. I know, I know … not many entrepreneurs believe that. But home is where family and community are built. It provides residents with a sanctuary, and a form of wealth creation while they seek prosperity and success. This

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An Agricultural Crisis of Green Proportions (Newsletter #261)

BY: STEPHEN DEL PERCIO [Adapted from infrastruttura, a new newsletter covering innovation in the design, development, and delivery of global civil infrastructure.] High-tech hydroponic vertical farms were once viewed as an elegant solution to deforestation and climate change-driven food insecurity, and a leafy green oasis within the food deserts that

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Transparency Rules, Secrecy Drools (Newsletter #260)

There are few who would argue against the benefits of transparency in business. In the wake of the Enron scandal, increasing transparency was the driving factor behind passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, which penalized destroying, altering, or fabricating financial records. Public companies are forced to disclose pretty much

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The Best Possible Housing Deal (Newsletter #259)

I’m a pyro. Always have been. Guilty as charged. Bonfires are my jam. Growing up on a lake, bonfires were an occurrence multiple times per week throughout spring and summer. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that a love for fire means the 4th of July was a

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(Still) Untapped Opportunity in Fractions (Transmission #241)

By: Andrei Zverev Real estate crowdfunding (aka fractional ownership) has been around for about a decade. During that time, individual investors have poured more money into it compared to other crowdfunding opportunities, such as equity investments in start-ups and small businesses. Ironically, crowdfunding laws were initially designed for these two

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A GEM of a Personal Jam (Newsletter #247)

Failure’s a real bitch isn’t it? And it’s a topic we don’t talk about nearly enough. I experienced my first jolting failure in 2017: the end of the road for my travel startup. That moment served as a critical stepping stone on my personal journey. Five

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Stock in Down Payments (Transmission #245)

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Banking Real Estate in the Clouds (Newsletter #242)

💡CRYSTAL TRANSMISSION: Thought-provoking long-form articles covering a wide spectrum from innovative shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war to the implications of floating cities seen from beaches far and wide. Curious? Additional examples. Proptech's Leader has Been Crashing Our

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Burn the Boats

WRITTEN BY: BEN RUBENSTEIN In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the beaches of present-day Veracruz in Eastern Mexico with 600 men set on plundering unimaginable treasure from the Aztec Empire. Before embarking on the inland journey, he said something remarkable. “Burn the boats.” The takeaway was obvious: There is no

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Proptech’s Leader Has Been Crashing on Our Couch This Whole Time (Newsletter #232)

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Reimagining the Real Estate Advisor of the Future (Transmission #223)

The once ubiquitous travel agent has been under attack for years—since Expedia, and even before that. I recently came across Fora Travel, a “business-in-a-box” for the next generation of travel agents—now called travel advisors—that just raised a $13.5 million Series A. It promises a modernization of

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The Elusive Feature of Branded Rentals (Transmission #208)

People like to know what to expect when engaging in new experiences. They crave consistency and minimize uncertainty.  Hotel brands satisfy that craving across geographies. This is no different than Starbucks’ systemized coffee recipes, and WeWork’s predictable workspaces. You know exactly what you’re getting when you interact with

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The Topic No One Will Touch with a Ten Foot Pole (Transmission #200)

As always, links surrounded by the ❇️ emoji indicate exclusive GEM Diamond content. If you would like to have access to all links, please consider GEM Diamond membership. For our 200th Transmission (wow…that’s a lot), I thought I’d reach for a blast from the past and modernize the