The Proptech Guide: Everything You Need to Know About the Future of Real Estate

By: Lawin Chandra

Narrated by: Tom Parks

The PropTech Guide is the leading book to the property technology revolution including the disruption, innovation, and lucrative opportunities. Created by a technology evangelist and a prominent thought leader in PropTech and the associated construction and asset management space, this revolutionary guide showcases 222 innovative firms in PropTech in a single, informative volume.

Real estate owners will learn how they might better manage and improve properties through new solutions from PropTech firms and sell their properties faster, and for a better price. Asset managers will find solutions to increase the value of their buildings and the performance of their portfolios by reducing cost and time spent. Property managers will learn about digital communication apps that allow their tenants to report issues using only a smart phone and find solutions through interoperable software systems that reduce their workload. Real estate agents will find technological solutions to find new deals, clients, and markets in order to close transactions faster and more transparently. Facility managers will understand how to increase their demand and revenue by using the newest technology, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), smart homes, smart buildings, and smart cities. The construction industry will learn about the latest in using Building Information Modelling (BIM). This book identifies those firms that are able to help companies become BIM ready and jump on the digital success ladder.

PropTech and blockchain start-ups will learn about the problems real estate participants encounter when using outdated methods to solve problems, and how these new digital- and technology-focused firms can find better solutions for the real estate industry. Real estate professionals and entrepreneurs will find this a priceless resource to uncovering new opportunities and maximizing their profit in this growing market. This inspirational book covers every main industry development.

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What is a Real Estate Asset Manager's digital tool

For many years I have worked in Private Equity as a Real Estate Asset Manager but about one year ago I began to work as a Real Estate Asset Management Consultant focusing on PropTech solutions. The question above is one that I have gotten quite often from conventional real estate asset managers. People I am speaking with tell me that there is no overview of real estate asset management and technological solutions. However, this book introduces the whole world of PropTech and all relevant real estate asset management, property management and facility management solutions. Even, with a good deal of real estate knowledge this book is an ideal addition to gain a competitive edge within real estate asset management. However, for many without the real estate asset management background this is a must read as the world of real estate asset management is changing with new digital solutions.

Great book for REAL ESTATE INVESTING

I was looking for a way to improve my real estate investing skills, as real estate investing is one of the most important strategies for a real estate asset management firm and a real estate asset manager. You make the money, when you are doing the real estate investment and not necessary when you are selling the real estate asset. While having worked for CBRE Global Investors and Tristan Capital Partners and invested in Europe and completed real estate investment Germany, I can consider myself as a global investor. We have reached a point, where standard ways of real estate asset management and real estate investment management are not providing any value add. Hence, this book comes very handy, where you are able to use technology to improve your real estate investing and real estate asset management strategies to make it faster, cost-efficient and more reliable.

This book is very helpful for institutional investors, family offices and all others who are focusing on real estate investing. Investors could use the solutions to do the real estate asset management by themselves or hire a real estate asset management firm, which knows the technology focused techniques, strategies and solutions like the real estate asset management company of the author, which is called PropTech Asset Management. It is interesting to see that the author is not only writing or speaking about those solutions, instead applying his knowledge as a real estate asset manager in his own real estate asset management firm.