Everyday You Hear About #Property #Technology M&A. What’s The Reality? NOW!

Where did all of this start?

That, of course, depends on with who you talk to but for our reference, I will start back about around 2009. A solid decade ago. Think about where we were. Zillow was only four years old and LoopNet believe it or not started way in back in 1995. The DarkStar was even then the evil empire, with all the horrific sequels and frail threats of universal domination still to come. Most of the globe was deep in the middle of The Great Recession. Deal flow, as the brokers call it was about down to zero in real numbers. And yet there was a glimmer of hope for #CRE. That flickering little light was something called software and someone really smart stated that sooner rather than later “software would eat the world.”...