Taking Charge: How Businesses Leverage Credit Cards

Business credit cards, which enabled close to $700 billion of spending in 2022, are as much a fixture in commerce as the personal cards used by the vast majority of adult Americans. “Both merchants and consumers would be completely stuck without the little plastic cards, with slowed transactions and virtually no online purchases,” according to […]

Keys to ESG: Stay ahead of the curve

Note: This article is adapted from an interview with Joe Consolo, Yardi’s industry principal for energy, that was published in PERE magazine. “ESG [environmental, social and governance] performance is becoming a key concern and differentiator for many real estate players,” PwC and the Urban Land Institute declared in their joint Emerging Trends in Real Estate survey report in 2022. Establishing […]

Proptech Survey Points To NZ’s Sustainable, Positive Future

Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty and growing climate anxiety, Aotearoa New Zealand’s property industry is using digital tools to drive value and create better places for people and the environment. More than a quarter (27%) of respondents to the latest Yardi / Property Council NZ Proptech Survey think technology will play a major role […]

Could real estate ecosystems be your new edge?

Solving the big challenges in real estate logistics demands a much larger and more sophisticated group of players than it did in the past. And that’s why the region’s real estate frontrunners are eyeing off ecosystems, says Yardi’s Bernie Devine. “Logistics assets have weathered the storms of the last few years, but the headwinds are […]

Simplify and Increase Accuracy for Debt Management

Having a single end-to-end solution to manage your real estate operations is essential when striving for accurate data and faster turnarounds, but what about debt management? Whether you’re a borrower or lender, there are multiple aspects of debt to manage. Key processes include calculating amortisation schedules for simple and complex loans, tracking collateral and managing […]

Property Technology Is Sustainability’s Secret Weapon

The third annual Yardi / Property Council of Australia Proptech Report was conducted in November 2022 to unpack attitudes and trends influencing property technology or proptech. The survey tracks the attitudes and practices of investors, developers and consultancies and provides insights into proptech adoption. In 2022, 45% of respondents developed or invested in real estate […]

Star Power: Yardi Earns Fifth EPA Award

Each year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honors a group of businesses and organizations that have made outstanding contributions to protecting the environment through superior energy efficiency achievements. Since 1992, the EPA’s ENERGY STAR program and its partners helped prevent four billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from entering our atmosphere. In 2020 alone, the […]

Meet The Team: Leo Tam

We are delighted to introduce you to Leo Tam who is currently the Consultant in the PSG team within the Asia Pacific region for Yardi. He has been working on system implementation for close to 3 years. Prior to joining Yardi, he was involved in Retail, Project (Building) and Workflow management in his previous company. […]

Taking small steps on a long road to tokenised real estate

A future of instantaneous settlement and no intermediaries is possible with the right infrastructure. Alice Chen, Bernie Devine’s guest on the latest episode of Yardi’s Proptech Insights, is busy building that infrastructure. The world of digital assets is taking shape before our eyes. In December, Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock – the world’s largest asset […]

What do real estate investors really want?

What is the secret to satisfying today’s tech-savvy, sophisticated and inquisitive investor? Chris Barbier, Yardi’s Investment Management Industry Principal, has a few insights to share. “Today’s investors not only want more information. They also want easier access to it,” Barbier says. While the reason people invest in real estate – to make a return – […]