1. Online Real Estate News. ... What real estate news do you want? National? Local? Industry specific? How do you want it delivered? E-mail? Web page? Print? In the future you'll have these all these choices, and each will be tailored to the strength of its medium. E-mail news will be fast and brief. Online real estate news will be archived and searchable. Print publications will be lighter than the smallest laptop and not require electric power!

Currently, I believe, there are almost a dozen services offering online news nationally and another dozen emphasizing regional news. This week I added two new online news sites. ... Real Times recently launched its commercial news service to provide "Real Estate News from Around the World." ... Real Estate News Television (RENT) aims to develop both cable television programming and a web site focused initially on Greater Los Angeles.

Three news services now offer e-mail real estate news: Real Estate Forum (daily), Inman News (combined residential and commercial, daily) and Realty Information Group (twice a week for the DC Metro).

The News Channel at PikeNet has always been one of the most popular channels, and you'll find links to all these sites and more. Use the link below to go there and then click U.S. or Reg'l News under the blue search bar to the left. ... What are your favorite news sources? Do you prefer your news by e-mail, over the web or in print? Send e-mail to .

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2. Web Success--J.E. Robert Companies. ... As property sellers search for better ways to communicate information, it's instructive to visit the J.E. Robert Companies' wet site. Under Properties you'll find a link to a New York Tax Lien Foreclosure Auction, and, if you click Download Data, you'll generate a spreadsheet within your browser that you can save as an Excel file. This certainly looks like a more efficient way of communicating information than responding to numerous telephone inquiries for basic property information. ... Do you have a Web Success story? Send e-mail to . For other recent stories use the following URL:

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3. Asian Pacific Values? ... Time to invest in Australia and New Zealand? I don't know, but Colliers Jardine ww.pacificportfolio.co.nz recently bought an advertising banner at PikeNet to promote its Pacific Portfolio of fifteen properties. You'll find a sharp looking web site with basic listing information and background economic data. Wednesday's Wall Street Journal also featured an advertisement for the portfolio with the URL(!). … For details on PikeNet banners, click "Advertising Info" under the Billboard on the home page or use the following hyperlink:

http://www.pikenet.com/advertising/advertising.html

4. Knowledge Base--WebSitePostOffice.com. ... The Real Estate Resource Group at www.rrgaudit.com, headquartered in Washington, DC, pointed me toward this week's addition to the PikeNet Knowledge Base. RRG, which provides lease audit consulting services nationwide, uses the Web Site Post Office at www.websitepostoffice.com to outsource its mailing list maintenance. Wow, here's a neat way to create your own free mailing list. ... For step-by-step instructions, visit the PikeNet Knowledge Base (top of home page) under the Web Related section or use the URL below:

http://www.pikenet.com/pike?func=showPublicPage&page=
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5. Corporate Lease Tracking--Part III. ... Two more posts on the PikeNet Lease Management Software Message Board outline more ways to track corporate leases. ... Karen Greenstein of Colliers, Colliers, Bennett & Kahnweiler in Chicago describes a proprietary lease information management tool developed by her company. ... Greg McLane of Swearingen Realty Group in Dallas suggests Lease Data Management (LDM) software developed by his company. "LDM calculates forward rent and CAM obligations for any period(s) of time and any combination of properties. Full text can be scanned in with floorplans, or any other graphics." ... Use the URL below to view these comments, and please add your own. (If you haven't already, you'll need to register to post to the Message Board, but not to browse.)

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6. Try Web E-mail Dispatch! .... Want to receive the PikeNet Dispatch with built-in hyperlinks? ... Need to change your e-mail address? ... Now you can edit your User Profile. Just click the Edit User Profile link under the logo on the PikeNet home page. Enter your e-mail address and password. If you've forgotten your password, click the "E-mail My Password" button and it will be sent to your e-mail address immediately. After you login, you can change your e-mail address, Dispatch format (HTML or Plain Text) and even your password.

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--Peter Pike