Nine Four Ventures is very mindful of the disruptive shift that is taking place within the short-term rental space.
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PropTech refers to products and services that impact the built world and the people, processes, and ecosystems that interact with it.
Today, it can be argued that it is easier to start a software company than ever before, as infrastructure (ie AWS, APIs, micro-services, open source, etc) needed to start a software company is more readily available and cost effective than ever.
Nine Four Ventures’ partnership with the Laramar Group is on the right path to tackle the biggest impediment to growth in CREtech: adoption.
We are building a program that will unify, educate and promote growth through the sharing of information we feel is valuable to real estate practitioners
The traditional real estate operating model is also undergoing some evolution.
It is our vertically-integrated approach combined with our trusted LP base that enables us to provide creative, flexible investment solutions and always keep the best interests of portfolio company founders at heart.
Underwriting software needs to be flexible in order to achieve mass adoption. Prior to joining Nine Four Ventures, I spent 8+ years in multifamily and commercial real estate acquisitions, where I underwrote nearly $10B in transactions.
Our tech forward commercial partner, the Laramar Group, believes that proptech is a fundamental component of its current and future operations.
Taking advantage of your real estate as a sales channel requires knowledge, understanding, and the right startup pipeline.
Nine Four Ventures continues to be excited for the future of real estate tech.
Nine Four Ventures believes scooters and micromobility solutions are going to be meaningful part of our everyday lives
The advancement of machine learning is undeniably valuable as we look at technologies being conceptualized within the RE space. Whether it be for residential, multifamily, or commercial, the growth potential it creates is something we at Nine Four feel strongly about.
This week I had the opportunity to speak at the CREtech conference in NY, and I think the experience I had at the event is representative of where the PropTech space stands at the moment: lots of momentum, lots of excitement, and a lot of unknowns.
Modular home builders benefit from many cost savings and pass along some of those to prospective buyers. Manual labor is traditionally the biggest expense associated with every construction project.
As we are in the early innings of real estate technology adoption, we are seeing new tech-enabled platforms enter the space. Many of these platforms are challenging the traditional incumbents in the space, ranging from service providers to hardware to property management systems.
Stay Alfred, a Nine Four Ventures portfolio company, is building something I would categorize as game-changing with respect to multifamily.
The Benefits of Controlled Access and Smart Locks
Owning a home is the American Dream. It represents a path to financial freedom and is typically the largest single asset an individual owns.
In the “amenities arm race” of the multifamily industry, one often overlooked amenity is providing reliable, fast internet to residents. Internet needs to work immediately when a resident moves in to their new home.
Marketing professionals in today’s multifamily space can all agree that standing out is a full-time job. Understanding where processes can be more streamlined may potentially answer some fundamental questions when building technology around this category.
“Space-as-a-service” is a term that generally refers to an asset-light business model that allows a consumer or business to rent space that suits their needs rather than going through a more traditional capital and time-consuming buy, build, and own process.
If retail investors do not have the necessary capital on hand to buy rental income properties, how do we solve this problem?
A collection of articles from around the web curated by the Nine Four Ventures team
Controlled access and smart locks will ease the friction of implementing new technologies and services in multifamily buildings.
Given the implications that mobility has for real estate, we believe that real estate owners and operators should pay close attention to how mobility networks can impact the demand for properties
When trying to set yourself apart from the competition, first impression is everything.
Five main solutions to this problem, all with their own pro’s and con’s.
With 30 years of industry experience, Nine Four Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in innovative #proptech companies across the globe.
On the surface, smart lighting seems like a relatively simple and easy way to “smarten” your communities. Just screw in a smart light bulb or add a smart outlet! However, this is a category where there is more than one route to take, all with different pros and cons.
For a building owner to capture spend I believe they need to own a platform that their residents access those products and services through
I’ve sat in on a lot of meetings between industry players and startups targeting the residential real estate space. Something that surprises me is the frequency with which I hear the same pieces of feedback and “things you should understand” from industry professionals.
Predictive analytics is a sliver of a broker or agent’s technology stack, but it’s a very meaningful one. Winning business is the first step to success, followed by delighting a client to the point where they’ll refer you and drive more business.
Today, smart home technology may be viewed as a “wow factor” that differentiates one apartment community from another. Tomorrow, smart home technology will be a requirement...
t seems like there are a few camps of thinking when it comes to how technology is going to impact the residential real estate agent. One end of the spectrum is the camp believes that real estate agents will always be around and the things agents do aren’t going to change much.
Nine Four Ventures, a vertically integrated venture capital firm that invests in technology companies impacting real estate and its stakeholders across and between each phase of an asset’s lifecycle.
