Tech Nest

2025 is going to be our biggest year ever! RealTrends Verified has been an industry leader for many years—so why wouldn’t 2025 be a break out year!? ?? With a refreshed vision, updated brand appeal, a new (beautiful!)website, and seriously hopped up tech powering our data capabilities—all the ingredients are fuel to the reimagined growth strategy. ?? Here’s a little video about our kickoff and I look forward to hearing from some of y’all on how we can partner together this year. ?? Of course, y’all know this is a team sport, so shout outs are due to Sydney L. Smith Bo Frize Reid Merzbacher Holden Page Mark Adams Brandon Johnson

We dropped Geek Estate's annual proptech predictions compilation for GEM Diamond members yesterday. It's up on our GEM Crystal platform this morning as a free full text article. Following proptech's Wild Wild West that we saw last year…As we all know,?the rise of the machines is coming--in the home,?maintaining parking lots, and even?regulating the air. That’s all great and dandy, but machines are utterly useless without data. As AI continues infiltrating the proptech landscape, 2025 will mark the explosion of data and the integration thereof required for AI to add tangible value to the everyday lives of agents, investors, and entrepreneurs. A selection of GEM Diamond members shared trends of interest and predictions to watch for in 2025. Topics covered include CCP, AI-search, AI transforming the market, brokerage consolidation, multifamily operator woes, and STR asset stabilization… Thanks to David Bluhm, Anthemos Georgiades, Errol Samuelson, Eileen Romito, Vin Vomero, Robert Hahn, Nate Smoyer, Brad Hargreaves, Emir Dukic, Stephen Del Percio, Heather A Harmon, Joseph Dahleen, Natalie Campos Goodman, Jeff Turner, Gene Eidelman, and Guy Barretta "The COO Guy" for their contributions. Full links in the comments.

In a wild wild year of proptech, the topic that dwarfed them all was the commission lawsuits and the NAR settlement. To miss it would be akin to tossing a horseshoe in a wide corral; unless you fling it straight into the sky, you’re guaranteed to hit something. No sense in beating this to death, as I’m certain all of us are sick of hearing and talking about the?$418 million judgement day. A few other notable industry developments: AI onslaught, fiscal Control, real estate recession, Compass' CCP crusade, and fundraising & liquidity woes... And, with that, time to saddle up and get to how we fared against GEM's 2024 predictions. Full text link in the comments... **Thanks to Anthemos Georgiades, Robert Hahn, Duke Long, Drew Fabrikant, Nate Smoyer, Alexey Dubov, Joseph Dahleen, Kevin Shtofman, Stephen Del Percio, Sam Westelman, and Bryan Copley for verdicts/reflections.

The latest edition of the Blanket PM Newsletter is live! In this edition?? ?? Highlights from #LSU2024 and Sales Mastery Live ?? A farewell to our favorite proptech podcast ?? Another great closing thoughts from Lior Abramovich?? Don’t miss it! #linkedinnewsletter #proptech #propertymanagement #SFR

We hear about reducing regulatory burden to enable building more homes and other projects nationwide in the news—but is there truly a path forward to doing this? Whether or not we see reduced regulatory burdens, James Gallagher, Co-founder and CEO at GreenLite, are already helping companies speed through permitting processes faster, more reliability, and with more transparency. Permitting might not sounds like an exciting topic, but when you listen to James speak about what's happening, the solutions GreenLite has, and what this means across the board for all parties involved in the building process, you can't help but get excited about it. Thanks for spending some time with me at Blueprint: The Future of Real Estate this year, James!

Exciting update coming to Geek Estate for proptech founders.

What does energy optimization in multifamily actually look like? ?? If you were asking me, I'd sum it up with Nest thermostats in every unit. But if you're asking Brad Pilgrim, CEO at Parity, Inc., then you'd get a much more in-depth and descriptive answer. Parity is a remote HVAC optimization as a service company. You'll hear what this means and how this sort of service can impact a property in my discussion with Brad from Blueprint: The Future of Real Estate earlier this year.

A popular topic this year has been sustainability, and who better to discuss the topic with than Matt Ellis, Founder and CEO of Measurabl. Measurabl also made some noise this year with the launch of their new product, ESGx Benchmarks. A new tool that offers measured energy usage and carbon emissions intensity for real estate and other companies globally. From Measurabl, "ESGx Benchmarks leverage actual meter-level data to deliver critical insights for real estate owners, operators, investors, and lenders." About Measurabl: Measurabl is the world's most widely adopted ESG data platform, empowering over 1,000 customers across 93 countries representing more than 18 billion square feet of real estate to measure, manage, report, and act on ESG. Measurabl helps real estate organizations leverage ESG data to drive superior asset value and lower cost of capital, resulting in more profitable real estate.

“The focus has shifted from where to invest to how sustainability shapes investment strategies. Sustainability and climate are changing the investment model. There has been a fundamental rewrite in how we think about asset value, risk premiums, and capital costs, with sustainability data as a core component.” Back in September, Measurabl’s CEO Matt Ellis sat down with Nate Smoyer, host of Tech Nest Nest, at Blueprint: The Future of Real Estate. Matt shared his insights on how sustainability is reshaping real estate decisions whilst offering his predictions on what 2025 holds for sustainability and real estate trends. He also highlighted how Measurabl’s ESGx Benchmarks helps real estate professionals benchmark their environmental performance and proactively prepare for regulatory compliance in line with global standards like CRREM. Want to hear more? Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gshRZQHp #Measurabl #RealEstate #Data #Sustainability #2025

And with episode 242 recorded—this is the last episode of Tech Nest. ??? There are too many to thank without missing anyone—but thanks to every guest, listener, and supporter of the show. I hope to share more about Tech Nest, the strategy, and some of the more impactful lessons from the show soon (though that'll be a different format than podcast, likely). You'll still see some content come from the Tech Nest social channels and possibly the newsletter. TBD on if the brand changes or goes dark entirely next year. <Insert cool catchphrase> ??