Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- This interview is a delight to listen to if you're passionate about the customer experience. John Cecilian Jr, Co-founder and CEO of Cecilian Partners joins the podcast to discuss some the of ways the customer experience in planned communities can be made better. We go beyond just how new homes are built. John discusses some of the shift in thinking around communities,...
Nov 07, 2023•39 min•Season 16Ep. 182
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- Solving housing affordability challenges is going to take many approaches. Ben Bear joins us to discuss the strategy his company, BuildCasa , is executing in several California markets. BuildCasa addresses housing affordability by unlocking unused land in neighborhoods. BuildCasa buys extra lot land from homeowners, sub-divides, and prepares the land for a new home to ...
Oct 31, 2023•46 min•Season 16Ep. 181
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- In this episode of Tech Nest, Jeremy Gall, Co-founder and CEO of Breezeway, joins us to discuss short-term rentals. Jeremy kicks us off with detailing what owners need to know in order to operate a successful vacation rental. I had to get Jeremy to comment on topics such as if there's going to be an Airbnb crash and flood of residential properties hitting the for sale ...
Oct 24, 2023•43 min•Season 16Ep. 180
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- About Josh Josh Jensen is the CEO and co-founder of Inspectify, a venture-backed technology platform in the property inspection space. Inspectify streamlines the property inspection experience across the entire property lifecycle through its network of 2,000+ inspectors and proprietary inspection and data technology. The company is backed by prominent investors includi...
Oct 23, 2023•6 min•Season 16Ep. 179
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- About Jeff As President of CubiCasa, Jeff leads the company’s overall strategy to digitize property data collection and unlock actionable data insights for homeowners and mortgage professionals alike. Prior to leading CubiCasa, Jeff served as Executive Vice President, Innovation Labs for Clear Capital—the company’s in-house innovation hub which focused on research, tes...
Oct 21, 2023•6 min•Season 16Ep. 178
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- About Ben With a career spanning nearly two decades as an entrepreneur and business leader, Ben Steward has a proven track-record for driving growth in companies. As the CRO at Funnel, Ben is responsible for building successful revenue-generation teams and strategies from the ground up. Whether infusing voice-of-customer into products and pricing, or developing partner...
Oct 20, 2023•5 min•Season 16Ep. 177
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- Sean Roberts, the CEO of Villa, joins Tech Nest today to discuss what he's leading at Villa. He joined the company earlier in the year, and is helping expand Villa's ADU empire across the state of California. As the largest provider of ADUs in California, Sean breaks down the key advantages Villa has over the competition when it comes to manufacturing, logistics, and w...
Oct 17, 2023•50 min•Season 16Ep. 176
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- Links discussed in today's episode: NYC's adds restrictions to short-term rentals: https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/09/01/nyc-airbnb-rules-local-law-18/ ) The law itself: https://www.nyc.gov/assets/specialenforcement/downloads/pdfs/FINAL-RULES-GOVERNING-REGISTRATION-AND-REQUIREMENTS-FOR-SHORT-TERM-RENTALS.pdf Quote from Brian Chesky & article from Skift: ...
Oct 11, 2023•33 min•Season 16Ep. 175
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- Prior to RentBase, Noaam was a real estate agent for over 10 years in the Boston area. Throughout his career as an agent, Noaam closed over 1000 rentals and converted $30M in sales from those rentals. RentBase is the first all-in-one platform that helps Real Estate agents and brokers organize and track all their rental deals, save hours of time qualifying and matching ...
Oct 05, 2023•5 min•Season 16Ep. 174
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- Dr. Ardalan Khosrowpour is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at OnSiteIQ. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech and MS from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne. After completing his Ph.D., he was appointed as a Runway postdoctoral fellow at Cornell Tech where OnSiteIQ was born. His unique expertise ...
Oct 04, 2023•7 min•Season 16Ep. 173
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- Owning a summer home is a dream for many Americans. The annual costs of keeping a summer home, however, remains a significant hurdle for most. You could try to make your second home a vacation rental to subsidize the costs or even get a return on your investment, but that's a lot of work most are equipped to handle. Paul Kromidas , CEO and Founder of Summer joins Tech ...
Oct 03, 2023•49 min•Season 16Ep. 172
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- Joe Hoppis is the Co-founder and CEO of a startup called Pairadime. Pairadime is working to make co-buying residential real estate much simpler and a better experience. In this interview, Joe breaks down how many co-buying transactions there are, why this trend will likely continue to grow, and what Pairadime is actually doing to help close these transactions. Joe's pa...
Sep 26, 2023•39 min•Season 15Ep. 171
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- Kenon Chen, EVP at Clear Capital joins Tech Nest for a quick discussion while at Blueprint. Kenon shares some of his thoughts on interesting and exciting tech transformation that's happening throughout real estate, including the appraisals industry. Aside from his day job, Kenon is a podcast host as well. He co-hosts ClearCast, the podcast by Clear Capital alongside Je...
Sep 25, 2023•8 min•Season 15Ep. 170
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- From the Audience town website, "Keep up with your real estate audience. Understanding your real estate customers is everything for your business. Now you can access insights specific to home movers with consumer profiles, interests, and household information, where other analytics tools fall short. Uncover opportunities and take action in every area of your business."...
Sep 25, 2023•6 min•Season 15Ep. 169
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- This is a special edition episode filmed and recorded live during the Blueprint Conference at the Venetian Casino and Resort in Las Vegas, NV. It's taken over 160 episode for me to lure and trap one of proptech's most respected voices to come on the show (just kidding, but kind of serious). Drew Meyers is today's guest. He was an early Zillow employee, previously a fou...
Sep 19, 2023•26 min•Season 15Ep. 168
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- Cristine Brown the VP of Partner Success at Rhino, a company that been leading the multifamily industry in creating alternative solutions for the standard security deposits rents must put up to rent an apartment. Cristine shares a lot about the products at Rhino, but also their secret to success: talking to their customers. You'll hear multiple examples of how this has...
Sep 12, 2023•43 min•Season 15Ep. 167
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- Despite my personal affection for self-storage, we've gone 165 episodes of Tech Nest without having someone on discuss the topic. Cory Sylvester, Co-founder of the popular self-storage data platform Radius Plus and Co-founder of DXD Capital is here to break the drought. We delve in to storage specific topics, such as leveraging data to build a self-storage portfolio (w...
Sep 05, 2023•47 min•Season 15Ep. 166
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- What if sharing commercial real estate data could be more valuable than holding it all to yourself? This could be things like how the building was constructed, energy usable, roof condition, and more. Think CARFAX, but for commercial real estate. That's what David Kaiserman, CEO of the proptech company Backpack, is discussing on this episode of Tech Nest. David makes a...
Aug 29, 2023•35 min•Season 15Ep. 165
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- Ethan Lieber is the Co-founder and CEO of Latchel, a proptech based in Seattle that is working to improve property management companies' response times, as well as helping property managers achieve incremental revenue through resident benefits. Often times property management companies find themselves having to choose between delivering great service to residents or pr...
Aug 22, 2023•53 min•Season 15Ep. 164
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- Inc Magazine just published their annual list of the fastest growing, private companies in the US. Proptech had a great showing out on the list this year. The list below (which I discuss in this episode) isn't likely the exhaustive, entirety of all proptech companies on the list. However, this should satisfy giving you an idea of the types of companies working at the i...
Aug 17, 2023•21 min•Season 15Ep. 163
Subscribe to Tech Nest: the Proptech Newsletter for weekly updates: https://www.technest.io/tech-nest-the-proptech-newsletter -- Josh Ernst, Founder and CEO of Backflip, a fintech focused on helping real estate investors through enhanced investing tools and by providing loans, brought the heat! Very few interviews with founders get into the specifics of product-led growth like we did in this one. Josh emphasizes the importance of starting with the customers' problems first, and then working back...
Aug 15, 2023•54 min•Season 15Ep. 162
Government employee by day, proptech founder at night. Donato Callahan is the CEO of BrightInvestor, a tech service that enables for real estate investors to better gather data and insights on markets, using visualizations. Donato isn't just a hopeful tech founder looking to capitalize on an opening in the market. He's an active real estate investor, building the tools to accelerate much of the manual work he used to do in order to make sound investments. More about Donato and BightInvestor By d...
Aug 08, 2023•39 min•Season 15Ep. 161
In this episode, we're joined by the CEO of Azibo, Vikas Gupta. Azibo is an all-one-solution for mom-pop landlords—specifically for those with 50 units or less. In the last few years, there's been significant changes to the rental landscape including how owners collect rent, reporting on-time rent payments to credit bureaus, and how many are becoming investors (think: accidental landlords) due to the interest rates environment we're in. One of the most important topics we discuss goes beyond pro...
Aug 01, 2023•55 min•Season 15Ep. 160
More about Skylight Skylight connects multifamily units to your city's top leasing talents. Our technology platform allows for your internal leasing team to be more competitive and efficient while providing you unlimited access to additional leasing talent in the area. Lease faster. Achieve higher rents with fewer concessions. Less headaches around finding and retaining leasing talent. Follow Skylight on Twitter Follow Jason on Twitter Follow Max on Twitter Connect with Jason on LinkedIn Connect...
Jul 11, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 14Ep. 159
Welcome to another episode of Tech Nest. In today's episode, we have a special guest joining us, Bill Martiner, the CTO and Co-founder of Avenue One, a Proptech company that has quietly risen to unicorn status in about three years time. Avenue One recently made headlines by successfully raising an impressive $100 million round of funding. While they may be a quiet company, their impact in the residential real estate space cannot be ignored. Avenue One's mission is to revolutionize the industry b...
Jul 04, 2023•42 min•Season 14Ep. 158
Join us on this episode as we delve into the world of rental with the founder of Rentbase, a new solution for agents and brokers in the real estate industry. Noam Blum, the founder, shares his personal experiences as an agent and the challenges he faced. With Rentbase, he aimed to automate leasing workflows and uncover sales opportunities. Rentbase is working to simplify the leasing process, from pre-qualifying leads to nurturing them into sales. Learn how Noam's unique approach and collaboratio...
Jun 27, 2023•45 min•Season 13Ep. 157
"More than a marketplace" is how ReWyre desrcibes their procurement platform for proptech solutions. Rasheq Zarif is the Co-founder and COO of ReWyre, and he wants to help property professionals find the right proptech solutions that meet their business needs in a more efficient and seamless way. Rasheq is leveraging his experience as an accomplished consultant, CEO, and tech advisor to guide real estate companies in identifying and adopting the right proptech solutions. More about Rasheq and Re...
Jun 13, 2023•40 min•Season 13Ep. 156
If you've been following Mike Wolber, then you know he's a rare one in our industry. Mike is a fellow podcast host of Modern Multifamily, but also the Chief Revenue Officer at Rent Dynamics—a proptech company focused on improving the overall lifecycle of residents through better technology tools for owners and managers. Mike is frequently bringing a ton of value to the industry sharing his insights, creating industry reports, and of course, contributing through his podcast. You can get most of h...
Jun 06, 2023•1 hr•Season 13Ep. 155
It's an exciting day when we get to have a returning guest on Tech Nest. Drew Fabrikant, CEO of Scout will be sharing today about AI, its uses in real estate, and what you might need to know to leverage this tech in your business—whether you're running a proptech or traditional real estate business. More about Drew and Scout Scout helps you build stronger connections with your ideal customer. Drew Fabrikant is the founder and CEO of Scout. Prior to that, Drew built a marketplace where homeowners...
May 23, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 13Ep. 154
More about Andrew and Doorvest Doorvest is an end-to-end solution for real estate investing, done entirely online. Doorvest helps individuals build wealth remotely by facilitating the purchase of a single-family rental and managing the property—making owning rentals as easy as owning a stock. Only in this case, they’ll own the whole home! Andrew Luong is the co-founder of Doorvest, a venture-backed startup advancing financial security for all. Andrew is also a real estate investor, Realtor, and ...
May 16, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 13Ep. 153
