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CRE Tech 5.0
Editor’s note: Jim Young is the Founder and CEO of Realcomm. At a recent Yardi Executive Briefing, he spoke about CRE 5.0. In this guest blog post, he further expands on the subject. The commercial and corporate real estate industry has many moving parts. Change is the only constant as companies around the world continually […]
01 / 06 / 17
Seniors + Students
Senior housing facilities around the globe are opening their doors to students. The creative solution cuts housing costs for young adults while providing nourishing services for the elderly. Such programs are gaining popularity in the United States. The unlikely pairing comes with an impressive array of benefits for seniors. A study published by the National […]
01 / 04 / 17
Retail Technology
Developing financially successful retail centers is a challenging task anywhere in the world. Investors and managers involved in retail assets must be sound strategic planners who can successfully assimilate a number of disparate factors, such as demographics, macro and micro economics, as well as cultural and political circumstances. Rising e-commerce makes a competitive business environment […]
01 / 02 / 17
Tips for Tips
Editor’s note: The following piece and accompanying graphics are re-published with permission from Home Energy Magazine. Behavioral recommendations, or tips, are an integral piece of many energy efficiency programs, ranging from marketing materials (e.g., brochures) to in-home audits, to Home and Business Energy Reports (such as the report shown below). Though information is known to […]
12 / 30 / 16
Affordability Crisis
While the ghosts of the last decade’s housing crisis have (mostly) been put to rest, for many families priced out of their local markets the need for affordable housing remains strong. Like the PC’s infamous “blue screen of death,” the Urban Institute’s map of affordable housing inventory is terrifying to behold. A handful of dark blue swatches in […]
12 / 29 / 16
SOHARA
Rekha Rao, Co-Founder of SOHARA, was born and raised in India. She grew up surrounded by the country’s rich heritage of visual arts, classical music and dance, all of which shaped her perspectives and values and an ongoing involvement in the cultural arts. It’s a time in her life that she remembers fondly. Rao relocated to […]
Yardi Honored
Insights Success magazine recently named Yardi one of the “10 Fastest Growing Cloud Solution Provider Companies.” Insights Success focuses its coverage on emerging and quickly growing companies and their leadership. The honor capped year of esteemed recognition for Yardi’s continued service to clients and constant growth, “Yardi Systems is leveraging cloud technology to enhance both […]
12 / 27 / 16
2016 Recap
As 2016 comes to a close, we look back in reflection on a successful year. Here are a few of our favorite Yardi moments from 2016: The Balance Sheet, Yardi’s corporate blog, celebrated its fourth anniversary! In February, Yardi launched a new data centre in Dubai to meet the data security and infrastructure needs of a growing […]
12 / 27 / 16
Li-Fi
Wi-Fi revolutionized the way we connect to the internet, but it’s not without flaws. Researchers have been busy looking for new kinds of technologies that could offer more reliable alternatives. One is called Li-Fi (Light Fidelity). Back in 2011, a group of scientists led by Professor Harald Haas from Edinburgh University in Scotland introduced the […]
12 / 23 / 16
Farris Haj
When Farris Haj moved to Santa Barbara from Israel in 1984, he wasn’t sure what the future might hold. But he had heard from his cousin, who was living in Santa Barbara at the time, that it was a beautiful coastal city with warm people and strong educational opportunities. At age 18, Farris decided to […]
12 / 22 / 16
360 Video
Architecture is one of the great powers to enhance our lives, but it boasts some serious communication issues. Designers, even though they mean well, may present homeowners with tough to understand drawings, or renderings that don’t really reflect how to navigate a finished room. As a consequence, homeowners end up paying for space without knowing […]
12 / 21 / 16
Sin City Streetlights
Hurricane Sandy is a terrifying memory, but out of its darkness, plenty of luminous people came out with innovative ideas meant for a better world. One such company is the New York-based clean tech start-up EnGoPLANET. They signed a partnership with the city of Las Vegas and installed their solar-kinetic streetlights solution at Boulder Plaza […]
12 / 20 / 16
Renewable Power
After signing its first agreement to purchase all the electricity from a 114-megawatt wind farm in Iowa in 2010, Google set the target to be powered 100 percent by renewable energy only two years later. According to one of the company’s latest blog posts on the initiative, the said target will be reached in 2017, […]
12 / 19 / 16
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