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Busy front of house? A virtual receptionist can help
MRI OnLocation’s latest integration brings us one step closer to a fully virtual receptionist. Introducing Alexa for Business by MRI OnLocation. Welcome to the future! What is a virtual receptionist? When we think about virtual receptionists, two dif…
Property Managers – R U OK?
COVID and enforced lockdowns, higher vacancy rates, financial hardship impacting tenants/landlords – now more than ever property managers are being exposed to stressful and often challenging situations. How do you stop your property management team f…
The Covid Impact on Property Management: People, Processes and Technology
It’s fair to say 2020 hasn’t turned out as we had anticipated. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed life as we know it. Property management businesses have been impacted in different ways resulting in many reviewing their existing business m…
Property Tree turns 8!
It’s been eight years since we launched Property Tree, and it’s safe to say that a lot has changed since then. Let’s take a look at how Property Tree has evolved and why it’s still ANZ’s leading cloud-based property management software. Property Tree…
How will the Great Disassociation impact commercial real estate?
In our previous blog, we discussed the role of technology in the “Great Disassociation” and how the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated existing trends in remote activity and created new challenges for industries where a consumer’s presence is traditio…
The Great Disassociation: Accelerating the separation of activity and place
The first quarter of the 21st century may be remembered as the time when technology finally allowed people to stop doing specific activities in specific places and enabled us to do most anything from basically anywhere. The COVID-19 pandemic will be …
What’s new in Property Tree this September
We’re all about making property management easier for you and this month’s Property Tree release does just that and more. Here’s what’s new this September. Entry Notices for Routine Inspections You can now send routine inspect…
Utilising Energy Data to Achieve Corporate Sustainability Goals
When it comes to driving corporate sustainability, a key factor, and major hurdle to overcome, is having the tools to efficiently target and measure performance. Targeting, firstly, revolves around the relationship between energy consumption and re…