Episodes

How has the role of the residential real estate agent changed over the last 15 years? Over the same time period, how has the technology that real estate agents rely on changed (beyond the demise of carbon copy contracts)? How did the benefits and learnings from traditional door knocking lead to the startup idea for Drop Offer? Greg Burns - co-founder and CEO of Drop Offer, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and discuss how a start in construction management proved a unique backgro...

What is the flip side of crowdfunding for real estate investing? What can be done to increase the transparency in commercial real estate financing options to bring it on par with what is available in residential real estate? How do you successfully build and scale a commercial lending marketplace? How has the aggregation and up keep of supply side rates created an opportunity to carve out a valuable offering where most brokers choose not to engage with? Tim Milazzo - co-founder and CEO of StackS...

What is a social enterprise and how does this business model support more equitable homeownership? How has information asymmetry contributed to the inequality in homeownership rates? How did the lack of adequate information geared to the most vulnerable homeowners leave them susceptible to predatory scams during the 2008/9 financial crisis? With the wealth of information available online today, what role do homeowner education solutions play in increasing homeownership attainability? How has the...

What are the opportunities and challenges of founding and growing a tech company in the midwest? Why has the homebuying process not kept up with the technological evolution of other processes? How has the emergence of iBuyers changed the dynamics for home sellers? What opportunities exist for implementing machine learning techniques into property matching and recommendations? Jay Cambron - founder and CEO of Guidage (fka Offerbright), joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and share ...

What integration challenges did hotel channel managers face in the early days of vacation rental marketplaces? Why is live 24 hour guest service a differentiator when the prevailing trend is to minimize human communication? What have been the challenges and advantages of growing a tech company in Canada? Has Europe caught up with the US in technical innovation adoption or does it remain somewhat behind? Mike Liverton - co-founder and Chairman of Jetsream Hospitality Solutions, joins Proptech Es...

How central is real estate photography to the home transaction process? What is the ecosystem of participants and content creation involved in real estate photography? Why has property imagery surpassed property details as the primary reason users surf listing portals? How has COVID accelerated the adoption of real estate photography technology over the past year? Branick Weix, Brendan Quinlan, and Matt Michalski- co-founders of Aryeo, join Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and enterta...

What are the pain points senior engineers contend with when managing hundred million dollar construction projects? Why are Facebook ads and LinkedIn messages not going to crack open the doors to decision-makers and influencers within construction firms? How did going to MIT's Sloan business school provided the opportunity to carve a new path within a construction career? Why has working with clients on construction sites been fundamental to building trust with construction company customers? How...

Why has omnichannel marketing not been as successful within real estate as in other industries? Why have real estate agents historically resisted adopting new technologies into their businesses? How has the elongate sales cycle of real estate been a challenge for lead nurturing for agents? What are the emerging opportunities for social media marketing for today's real estate agent? Ajay Pondicherry - co-founder and CEO of Block Party, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and explai...

Why have commercial real estate agents historically shied away from short-term rental needs? What are the issues with subleasing which cause parties to avoid the obvious solution? How can you automate the commercial leasing process which typically takes months and teams of lawyers? How do you build a two sided real estate marketplace where everyone wins? What impact has Amazon had on commercial warehousing in the US? Brad Wright - CEO of Chunker, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these question...

How does the complexity of real estate transactions create an opportunity for technology to improve the overall experience? What similarities exist between the adtech and proptech industries? How can the playing field be leveled for families and individuals that want to purchase homes and build communities? What can be done to empower real estate agents to help their clients in hyper competitive bidding situations? Lindsay Van Kirk - VP, Sales and Operation at Ribbon joins Proptech Espresso to ...

Why does being an entrepreneur equip a founder to expect the unexpected? What lessons did Scott learn from losing almost everything in the 2009 financial crisis? What are the unique investment insights that Privy has built into it's solution to help individual investors make decisions? Why should novice real estate investors avoid the lure of gurus and the guarantees that the promise? Scott Fahl - Founder & CEO of Privy joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and share the many ups an...

Can the current housing crisis be solved with technology? How have different government policies and social forces contributed to economic and racial inequality in housing? How is the Terner Center advancing innovative policies to influence the way government at all levels is directing money towards creative ways to address housing needs? What successes have the first cohort class from the Housing Lab achieved after the program? Michelle Boyd - Program Director for the Housing Lab, joins Propte...

In today's world, should we still be defining businesses along the traditional lines of product and services? How is proptech evolving and accelerating in India and surrounding markets? Can co-living recreate the missing physical connections of communities that increased internet usage has greatly reduced? Ajay Kumar - co-founder and CEO of TheHouseMonk, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and discuss the path to building an international platform for centralized rental real estate...

Are differing US municipal codes causing fragmentation challenges and thus preventing broader proptech adoption? Why isn't the home a more integral part of the financial advisor planning process? What causes people to talk about homeownership as a financial investment but in reality don't treat it as a financial investment? Why is financial flexibility so important for homeowners? Joe Cianciolo - Co-Founder & CEO of HomePace, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and much more. Joe ...

Why is the traditional rental showing experience so challenging and unsatisfactory for all participants? What percentage of a leasing agent's time is spent traveling to and from listings? How are different segments of multifamily leasing managers adopting technology to automate their processes? Chris Kostoulas - co-founder and COO of Peek, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and discuss how a virtual first leasing platform enables multifamily managers to rent their units much more ...

Fueled by a passion for social entrepreneurship, Caroline Pinal co-founded Giveback Homes to empower the real estate industry to turn business into an opportunity for social good. Pinal and team deliver innovation and impact to their network of like-minded real estate agents, brokerages, technology, and service providers. In concert with these companies, Giveback Homes has helped deliver over 200 homes to families in need during the past five years. Pinal worked directly with Concierge Auctions ...

What is the rooming house phenomenon? How do you provide housing for segments of the population that cannot afford market-rate housing? Is it possible for landlords to make a profit in the affordable housing market? Atticus LeBlanc - PadSplit founder, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and discuss how he is using technology to increase the supply of affordable housing and create a roadmap for affordable housing renters to become affordable housing landlords. Atticus is the CEO & ...

JoyHub is a business intelligence platform specifically for professional rental owners, managers and operators. By providing access and connectivity across their existing technology infrastructure JoyHub provides rental operators with a holistic view of their properties, tenants and portfolios. Powered by a proprietary integration layer, JoyHub connects, collects and aggregates data from various data sources to support secure data storage, custom reporting and predictive analytics. With access t...

Victor Hunt is the CEO and co-founder of Astorian, a contractor marketplace for building owners and managers. Victor worked in property management for over a decade at a 5000 tenant portfolio in The Bronx where he was inspired by his own challenges hiring contractors. He and his co-founder started the company from their dorm room at Yale and have raised over $2 million in funding from First Round Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Village Global.

Bobby Bryant is the CEO of DOSS Group INC., the holding company for Ask DOSS, DOSS Pros, DOSS Social Agents, DOSS Home Loans, DOSS Home Warranty, etc... DOSS is a proptech company that's obsessed with creating an End-to-End Fair-Priced Digital Real Estate Marketplace. They are developing a Voice-Activated Intelligent Assistant built into a proprietary search and transactional platform that empowers the Consumer and REALTORS® to ask any question about any property in the world to get accurate, ea...

Despite over a quarter of American's living in a form of an HOA community, HOAs remain very much a mystery to most of us. Buying into an HOA brings added diligence complexity to prospective homeowners around HOA rules as well as the financial viability of the HOA. Unfortunately, this transactional diligence is very archaic and paper-based. Luckily, our guests today on Proptech Espresso, Jamie Hankinson and Tom Beattie co-founders of Eli Report, are bringing much needed innovation to the HOA spac...

Jada Mclean is the Co-founder/CEO of Hurry Home, the platform enabling homeownership of houses valued at $80,000 or less through shared ownership. As an alumna of the renowned Techstars Accelerator and participant of UC Berkeley Terner Center’s inaugural Housing Lab cohort, Jada has been recognized for Hurry Home’s innovative approach to filling in the gap of financing for small-dollar properties. Prior to founding Hurry Home she was an investment banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Mcco...

Why have real estate investors finally started trusting proptech solutions with their data? What are the primary operating tools being adopted by real estate portfolio managers? Andrew Flint - co-founder of Occupier, joins Proptech Espresso to answer these questions and discuss how the success of commercial real estate owners has delayed the adoption of technology, with younger tech forward leaders now changing this approach. Andrew Flint is the co-founder of Occupier, Inc., a Real Estate Succe...

Ashleigh Wilson is the Founder and CEO of AuditMate, a vertical transportation software, and management company. AuditMate is on a mission to empower building owners and managers with data-driven maintenance auditing products that radically simplify vendor management and selection. Ashleigh believes that in order to do well, we must start by doing right and is proving this by making vertical transportation management accessible and simple.