PikeNet Dispatch, June 12, 2003
Vol 8 No. 46 (675), "More than 9,000 subscribers"

Wireless Real Estate... Do you ever have this dream? You're conducting a prospective tenant on a building tour. Your client asks you about space available in a different property. You point your BlackBerry at the new building and search for vacant space. You find the perfect location. You make a big deal. (Okay, it's a fantasy -- for many reasons.)

But last week I visited with Billy Cohen at Newmark in his New York City office and caught a glimpse of the wireless future. As a big BlackBerry fan, Cohen's mantra is "Leverage your time!" And he raved about how the BlackBerry kept him in touch with e-mail no matter where his location. He told me that over 200 Newmark professionals use them to communicate with each other across the country and even in England.

Newmark is now piloting the first step in wireless brokerage with a service from POMALS that delivers space available information to a BlackBerry directly from MrOfficeSpace (currently for New York City only). Today you have to tell the BlackBerry where you are. But a GPS-enabled "sleeve" will eliminate this need in the future, according to Jeff Beri of POMALS, by "sensing" where you are.

So what's your dream? Do you want to search for space wirelessly? What other information would you like when you're mobile? Send me your comments. I'll report more in a future Dispatch. Thanks!

--Peter Pike