After a year of pandemic stay-at-home-please angst, vaccination rates are up, states are reopening, and millions are out and about again, mobile devices to the ready. Is the commercial real estate industry also ready? Probably not and that will hamper them.

There are CRE companies that have moved ahead with technology like artificial intelligence and 3D virtual tools. Many haven't.

"You would think that in today's world where everybody's doing everything from their phone that we'd have the capability to do everything from the phone," J.C. de Ona, southeast Florida division president of Centennial Bank, tells GlobeSt.com.

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