When it comes to lasting and impactful developments on our everyday lives, the FinTech movement is certainly high on the list. In fact, we would venture to say that it comes in at a solid second, behind only the Industrial Revolution. For the past century or so, we have seen technology growing at lightning speed, much to the amazement and convenience of mankind (well, most of it, anyway).

Social media is not another task piled atop the other daily work of a real estate professional. Understanding and leveraging social media is vital to building brand success. The right strategies prevent managing social media from overwhelming busy brokers and agents. Stay organized and control your social media program with these five suggestions.

Langan provides an integrated mix of engineering and environmental consulting services in support of land development projects, corporate real estate portfolios, and the energy industry. Our clients include developers, property owners, public agencies, corporations, institutions, and energy companies around the world.

It’s no secret that retail is one of the most competitive industries today. In such a competitive environment, retailers are actively seeking out ways to set themselves apart and differentiate their brand. One of the most popular ways of doing this is pop-up retail. In 2017, pop-up shops were all the rage, allowing consumers an insider’s view of their favorite products, and the change to build deeper relationships with their favorite brands through unique experiences.

Over the past few years, there has been a marked increase in the number of people who work remotely. And this trend doesn’t discriminate, as it can be seen across the board, throughout a number of industries. And, honestly, it comes as no surprise - with the advances in technology, today’s workforce can conduct their business almost entirely online. However, smart employers are doing all they can to continue offering their employees a space in which they enjoy working.

Two NAI Global offices, led by Steve Pastor and Susan Fox with New Jersey-based NAI James E. Hanson has teamed up with John Simons, Holden Rushing and Chris Haro of NAI Partners in Houston to market a new 10-million-square-foot, rail-served industrial property in El Campo, Texas named SW International Gateway Business Park.

Over the past several years, the industrial real estate industry has experienced its strongest run to date. And, thanks to the worldwide growth of both domestic and international economies, coupled with the explosion of eCommerce, this trend is predicted to continue through 2019 - and even beyond.

How do you retain top talent? You create a brokerage that people want to work at and stay with. There are best practices that apply to all businesses, but here are 5 ways particularly for brokerages to keep your agents engaged.

In 2016, more than 37K people died in car accidents in the U.S. That same year, one person died in Florida when his Tesla’s Autopilot feature failed to sense a truck cutting across the road, though the death was ruled an accident since there was no system defect detected.

Smart technology is improving all the time, incorporating machine learning and artificial intelligence to handle more and more complex tasks. Now more than ever, all commercial buildings have to get Smart out of necessity – it is no longer a luxury. Particularly, there are 5 ways that CRE buildings continue to advance and change the industry.

Just as it is for men, ask four women how they chose careers in commercial real estate and you will get four different answers. Andie Edmonds was a stock broker in the 1990s before moving to a small city in Central Oregon where she wanted to reboot her career after her kids were all in school. In Bend, she got hired by the first company she interviewed with but only after the principal of the firm encouraged her to interview with all the other brokerage shops in town.

NAI Commercial Montreal and Terramont Real Estate Services Inc., two of Montreal’s top commercial real estate firms, will join forces and beginning March 1 will operate as NAI Terramont Commercial. With the merger, the official NAI Global office in Montreal enters the top 5 firms serving the office, industrial, retail, tenant and investor market in Canada’s second biggest city.