Today, commercial real estate tech start-up CompStak launched CompStak Exchange, a new platform of the lease comp database platform free for commercial real estate brokers, researchers, and appraisers. CompStak Exchange features enhanced functionality to facilitate the exchange and analysis of lease comps, with an ability for multi-market companies to adopt the system for lease comp management across markets.
“The premise of CompStak is the exchange of information,” said CEO and co-founder Michael Mandel. “As a real estate broker, I sat through inefficient weekly meetings discussing deals that had no impact to my work at the time – that was the epiphany moment for CompStak. CRE Professionals want to exchange information they have for information that they need at the time.”
This new offering from CompStak is the culmination of months of input from its active members in the real estate community. Through extensive user research, CompStak continues to work to meet the unfulfilled data needs of brokers, researchers, and appraisers through its crowd-sourcing exchange system.
CompStak covers 12 US markets, including New York , San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC, Atlanta, Los Angeles and Dallas. Lease comps are provided by thousands of commercial real estate professionals who are members of the service. The coverage improves daily as professionals from nearly all brokerage and appraisal firms in each market consistently update CompStak with new deals.
CompStak is a free service offered only to professionals in the commercial real estate community, including brokers, appraisers, and researchers. Real estate investors may subscribe to CompStak by emailing enterprise(at)compstak(dot)com or calling (646) 926-6707.
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West Midlands, November 27th: The Galleon Group plc (Galleon or the Group), a cross-media company with interests in media production, database marketing, software publishing, public relations, trade journal production and graphic design, today announces that ex-Disney Producer Chris Henderson has joined the group as a consultant for its animation project, Astro Knights. Henderson, who has extensive experience in producing animated features, including a number of Disney projects, will work alongside the animation team at Synthetic Dimensions, Galleon’s animation and video game subsidiary.
“Chris has a very impressive CV and his experience in producing successful animated TV series will be of immense benefit to the company,” explains Jim Driscoll MBE, Chairman of the Galleon Group. “Astro Knights is an exciting project and we have an exceptionally skilled team at Synthetic Dimensions. With Chris on board, we now have all the talent we need to take Astro Knights into full production.”
Before joining Galleon, Henderson worked as a Producer for animation giant Disney. His projects included all 65-half hour episodes of “One Hundred And One Dalmatians”, 65 episodes of “Hercules”, the home video production of “The Hunchback Of Notre Dame” and the feature film “Return To Neverland” (the upcoming sequel to Peter Pan). Prior to Disney, Henderson ran a small production and development company called Hamlet.
“Synthetic Dimensions has a reputation for innovation, quality and excitement,” adds Kevin Bulmer, Founder and Director of New Technologies at Synthetic Dimensions. “In Astro Knights we have a property that has already captured the imagination of broadcasters, merchandise and licensing companies worldwide. Chris’ experience in overseeing large scale animation projects will, I’m sure, see Astro Knights become an internationally successful television series.”
Henderson joins the project at an exciting time. The Synthetic team has been working with an animation studio in India to produce footage for the series. Initial reports on the animation are favourable and full-scale production of the series is anticipated early in the New Year. The Group is also looking at setting up a small studio in Los Angeles, to further develop animation projects in 3D, 2D and new technologies including Flash (Internet software). This would be headed up by Henderson.
“I am really looking forward to working with Jim, Kevin and the rest of the Synthetic Dimensions’ team,” says Henderson. “Astro Knights is a really cool concept. The characters are strong, the initial premise is exciting and there’s a lot of fun to be had with developing the plot and the characters and bringing it all to life.! There’s a buzz about 3D world-wide thanks to films like Shrek and I know several studio executives who are anxious to see Astro Knights.”
“Under a co-production agreement for the Astro Knights series signed with CinéGroupe du Canada, Chris will act as liaison between Canada, India and the UK,” concludes Driscoll. “This announcement comes on the back of The Group about to complete a reverse take-over into an AIM-listed shell and sees the Group moving into the New Year in a very strong position.”
Chris Henderson will be in the UK from Tuesday 27th to Friday 30th of November. If you would like an interview with Chris (phone, e-mail or face to face) then please contact Paul Wooding at RedEye PR, details at the end of this release.
The Galleon Group is a content provider across platforms in multimedia broadcast and interactive software. The Group strategy is to build, acquire and own a significant intellectual property rights portfolio. The Group combines a number of companies that already generate turnover and profit. The Group owns companies with intellectual property rights in software, animation and new media. The Galleon Group plc is the holding company of Synthetic Dimensions plc - comprising, Astro Knights Ltd, Probe Media Ltd, Redeye PR Ltd, Meta4 Design Ltd and A4 Holdings plc, and also an equity interest in two other companies. The Group provides product and services for the media support sector. Its interests include: Astro Knights. A licensing, merchandising and publishing opportunity around a fully computer animated 3D TV series; publication of a series of trade journals for the licensing and merchandising industries and consumer database marketing.
The Travel Media Awards is proud to announce ENIT – Italian National Tourist Board as its headline sponsor for 2017.
“It’s a pleasure and an honour for ENIT — Italian National Tourist Board to be headline sponsor of the Travel Media Awards 2017. The Awards celebrate the achievements of the UK travel media in all its forms and recognise its invaluable contribution to the promotion of tourist destinations and their tourist industries. Now, as ever, ENIT — Italian National Tourist Board is here to help and support their work in any way possible,” says Giovanni Bastianelli, executive director of ENIT-Italian National Tourist Board.
There’s no doubting the strong ‘love affair’ between Italy and the United Kingdom that has faithfully continued since the times of the 18th-century Grand Tour. This is because Italy offers something for everyone, including culture and food, seaside, lakes and mountains. There’s also borghi, picturesque historic villages; nature and environmental tourism; luxury and wellness; sport and business travel; smaller museums and art cities; hiking and pilgrim walks.
Giles Harper, MD of Travega and co-founder of the Travel Media Awards, commented: “We are delighted that ENIT — Italian National Tourist Board will be the headline partner for the Travel Media Awards 2017, and look forward to showcasing the very best of the UK travel media sector at the Awards in October this year.”
Entries to the Travel Media Awards continue to grow and have exceeded the 2016 levels, with entries received from some of the most prominent names in travel media. The finalists will be announced on Monday 4 September. We will also be announcing the recipient of our prestigious Special Contribution Award in the coming weeks. Watch this space.
The 2016 Awards saw more than 600 entries across 19 categories and culminated in an awards ceremony at the ME London hotel. Some 250 guests, including representatives from the UK’s leading travel media and industry organisations, attended the event, continuing the Travel Media Awards as a key fixture on the travel industry calendar.
The Travel Media Awards was launched in 2015, celebrating the very best of the travel media sector. Open to all travel writers, broadcasters and photographers, the Awards is a true barometer of the travel media sector. The Travel Media Awards is owned and operated under a joint venture agreement between Travega and APL Media Limited. travelmediaawards.com
APL Media Limited works across the travel and lifestyle sectors in a number of media, from print through to events. APL Media produces the award-winning National Geographic Traveller (UK), ABTA Magazine, Postcards, ASTA Network and a series of lifestyle newspaper supplements, apps and websites. aplmedia.co.uk