Managing your company's commercial real estate portfolio may have you juggling timelines, budgets and a travel schedule that would stymie most people. Being mobile and agile is the key to success. Even if you spend most of your time working 7 miles up in the sky, there are plenty of awesome apps that can help you be more productive. Check out these five tools that can squeeze even more value out of your smartphone or tablet:
1) WorldMate (iPhone, Android)
The
WorldMate app creates complete travel itineraries that combine your air reservations, your hotel stays and the meetings on your calendar. It saves contact information, terminal and gate information and directions all in one place and converts time zones for you.
2) Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Apps (iPhone, Android)
As more and more commercial real estate brokerages update their technology suites, they create apps. While the apps often vary based on the provider, they can include features like the ability to access listing and leasing inventory, links to market research and information and tools to contact agents. However, if you already have a tenant rep, he can probably access more commercial real estate opportunities for you more quickly than you can through an app.
Among the best apps for this type of service are Loopnet and Costar Go. For the commercial real estate executive who is frequently involved in transactions, you'll find these apps to be very useful.
3) AroundMe (iPhone, Android)
This
free app works with your device's GPS to find the closest businesses to wherever you are. You can use it to find competitors for site selection, find a coffee shop to work between tours, find a restaurant, or see how close a potential new office site is located to banks, office supply retailers, dry cleaners or any other relevant services. If you're trying to stretch your expense account, it even integrates with
Groupon.
4) JotNot (iPhone)
Given the high quality of cameras in many smartphones and tablets, scanners and fax machines are rapidly becoming dated technologies.
JotNot uses your device's camera to capture documents and converts them to PDF so that you can store them, email them and work on them.
5) CamCard (iPhone)
Managing commercial real estate requires keeping in touch with property maintenance, brokerage and vendor contacts for each suite that your company uses. For a large portfolio, just keeping your contact database updated can be a full-time job.
CamCard uses your camera to capture the business card's image, and then utilizes OCR technology to pull the information from the card and places it into your contact database. Imagine the time you’ll save from avoiding all that typing!
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Managing your company's commercial real estate portfolio may have you juggling timelines, budgets and a travel schedule that would stymie most people. Being mobile and agile is the key to success. Even if you spend most of your time working 7 miles up in the sky, there are plenty of awesome apps that can help you be more productive. Check out these five tools that can squeeze even more value out of your smartphone or tablet:
This free app works with your device's GPS to find the closest businesses to wherever you are. You can use it to find competitors for site selection, find a coffee shop to work between tours, find a restaurant, or see how close a potential new office site is located to banks, office supply retailers, dry cleaners or any other relevant services. If you're trying to stretch your expense account, it even integrates with Groupon.
Managing commercial real estate requires keeping in touch with property maintenance, brokerage and vendor contacts for each suite that your company uses. For a large portfolio, just keeping your contact database updated can be a full-time job. CamCard uses your camera to capture the business card's image, and then utilizes OCR technology to pull the information from the card and places it into your contact database. Imagine the time you’ll save from avoiding all that typing!
