Should you use an iPad in commercial real estate?

How can you use an iPad in commercial real estate?

We are a bunch of early adopters here at Strategic so we jumped on the iPad release immediately and bought a few and headed off to ICSC Recon in Vegas back in May 2010 to give it a try…

We found it to be a great device for a trade show as we were able to do the following for our meetings:

Review shopping center site plans, brochures, demographics
Presentations for new business pitches
Modify Letter of Intent/Contracts/Leases
View property websites/videos
Email correspondence

Upon our return from the show we have found many ways to incorporate its use into our daily retail brokerage work:

Client meetings where we can have all property info handy at a moment’s notice to review/modify/email…
Space showings & tenant tours with all needed info at our fingertips to increase efficiency and do everything we can to shorten the deal process…

I think we all know that time kills deals and anything we can do to shorten the length of time in today’s economy we consider a required tool.

Do you have an iPad in use for your business?

How do you use it to increase your productivity?

Let us know how you use your iPad and what your favorite business apps are…

Matt Milinovich

Strategic Retail Group

Partner

mattm@srgaz.com

602-778-3830

Comments

seth@sitetour.com commented:
Date: 2011-03-01
Comment: Matt - Nice overview post on the iPad from a retail real estate perspective. The iPad is a wonderful tool, but we're just scratching the surface in terms of its usability for specific business niches. As I've shared with you offline, I'm building an iPad tourbook application for tenant rep brokers which will allow large tenant site tours to be conducted on an ipad with ease (www.sitetourbook.com). I'm also creating a similar resource for landlords and brokers that is geared for property portfolio presentations. These are exciting times. Seth Parker