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Discover five technologies transforming back-end mall operations, cutting costs, and driving efficiency and growth across retail properties.

Read all the August 2025’s retail headlines – India and global – in under a min. (Your inbox doesn’t need another long read!)

Learn why coworking IPOs are booming in India, with Smartworks and IndiQube both crossing 12x demand.

Discover key retail updates in July 2025, from India’s leasing growth to Mall of America’s AI upgrades.

The coliving model was tested by the pandemic but it didn’t vanish. In this post, we explore how a once-niche concept is becoming a $16.05B industry

India’s next retail wave is taking shape — and malls are right at the center. Let’s break down the signals driving this big shift.

Want to solve 70% of tenant queries without your involvement? See how you can put tenant ops on autopilot without hiring more staff.

Want to solve 70% of tenant queries without your involvement? See how you can put tenant ops on autopilot without hiring more staff.

AI can automate major property management tasks like logging maintenance requests, booking amenities, and more. Read the post to see how it can work.

We've built E-signing directly into MS.Ai, so you can send contracts, collect signatures, and track everything in one place. Here's how to use it.

Phoenix Mills has been using MonkSpaces.Ai since 2024 across 8 locations in India. Learn how our platform is helping them optimize operations.

Some coliving spaces in Europe are hitting 90% occupancy. Read on to learn what’s making them the top choice for today’s renters across the globe.

Digital Twins provides an interactive dashboard where you can monitor key property metrics—such as occupancy, bookings, and sales—in real time.

India has just ~1,000 malls for 1.4B people—a big gap compared to other economies. Here's why that matters and what it signals for retail growth.

AI brings order to the chaos for student housing operators — fewer complaints, faster responses, smoother operations, and happier parents.

AI removes admin, not your team. In 2025, top property managers are AI-efficient. They collect faster, operate leaner, and communicate better.

In 2025, coliving runs on AI—smarter support, rooming, comms, and reporting. Less grunt work, faster ops. People-first, system-powered.

AI is automating mall operations, reducing costs, and boosting efficiency in revenue tracking, finance, tenant support, collections, and marketing.

In 2025, coworking spaces use AI for event invites,member support,front desk ops,sales, and sentiment tracking,enhancing efficiency and cutting costs.

A CMS helps PM track contracts,maintenance,visitors,invoices,finances, and integrate with other apps for efficient commercial property management.

Student housing software streamlines leasing,payments,utilities,staff training,communication, task automation for efficient operations & management.

Cloud-based PMS streamlines operations, secures data, and boosts tenant engagement with 24/7 access, centralized storage, and scalability

A PMS ensures financial stability, stakeholder engagement, community building, and sustainability with automation, analytics, and smart management

Mall Management Software Streamlines operations by integrating tenant management, maintenance, financial reporting,and visitor tracking.

Streamline operations with software that automates maintenance, centralizes tenant management, enhances security, optimizes space and energy tracking

Cloud-based property management systems simplify operations, security and tenant engagement with anytime access, centralized data, and scalability.

Assess needs, plan integration, standardize processes, test, train, and monitor performance for a smooth and efficient Software implementation.

Custom PMS adapts to property types, regulations,and tenant needs, streamlining workflows, automating tasks,ensuring compliance,and supporting growth.

PMS simplifies tenant management,rent collection,maintenance, and financial reporting. It enhances efficiency,reduces errors, improves communication.

Sreamline retail operations by automating rent collection,maintenance,and tenant communication. It centralizes data,integrates with other systems.

Commercial Property Management Software enhances tenant engagement,streamlines maintenance,booking,visitor management while ensuring legal compliance.

Mall management software enhances customer engagement, streamlines operations, and supports omnichannel retail, helping malls stay competitive

Focus on flexibility, automation, and tenant experience. Trends include short-term leases, AI tools, smart home tech, and community features.

Automate tenant tracking, maintenance, and rent collection. Choosing a system involves assessing needs, scalability, and integration.

As the demand for seamless property management grows in the UAE grows, AI-powered solutions are transforming the way real estate businesses work. 

Mall management software cuts costs, boosts revenue, and enhances efficiency with automation and data-driven insights.

Software that streamlines maintenance for residential, commercial, and retail spaces by automating complaint redressal, asset tracking, preventive maintenance, and ambiance management, ensuring efficiency and tenant satisfaction.

Streamline tenant communication with centralised messaging system,ticket management, document storage with a Property management tool

A PMS streamlines property management. Basic handles tenants and maintenance, Intermediate adds growth and tenant engagement, and Advanced offers analytics and automation for large portfolios.

Mobile apps and property management software simplify bookings, tenant management, and resource allocation, making coworking spaces easier to manage and use.

A Wayfinder system in PMS simplifies navigation, enhances customer experience, improves security, and boosts mall operations efficiency.

PMS helps mall operators streamline daily tasks like facility management,tenant coordination,and security. It automates processes, and improves customer experience.

Mobile apps and PMS streamline rent collection, complaint management,security,and facility maintenance in student housing.

A PMS automates coworking operations, from maintenance,ticketing to contract management,event coordination.Streamlines tasks, enhances efficiency.

Overcome mall management challenges with PMS solutions for lease management, visitor analytics, revenue automation, and more.

Balancing long-term and short-term residents creates strong communities,increases revenue,optimizes space,automate check-in and check out.

Streamline lease management with a PMS improves efficiency,reduces errors,and simplifies operations with automation,centralized data and online tools.

Property management software enhances Tenant Communication by providing timely updates,streamlined maintenance requests, and improved tenant satisfaction.

Mobile apps and PMS streamline coliving by improving communication, maintenance, and space management, enhancing efficiency and resident experience.

Student Housing Software automates room allocation,fees,maintenance,communication,lease management and high tenant turnover.

A PMS automates bookings,maintenance,communication,streamlining daily management for efficient co-living management.

Digital twins integrate with PMS to optimize tech parks using real-time data, IoT, and analytics for better monitoring, maintenance, and space use.

Marketing automation in PMS boosts occupancy, streamlines bookings, and communication. It automates listings and provides real-time insights.

Digital twins are virtual mall replicas using real-time data to optimize operations,enhance experiences and improve resource management with IoT insights.

A software to streamline tech park issues like maintenance, tenant management, security, optimize space, and track energy for sustainability.

Student Housing Software automates room allocation,fees,maintenance,communication,lease management and high tenant turnover.

Integrating IoT with property management boosts efficiency, cutting costs and enhancing sustainability through smart, data-driven operations.

Tenant Experience Management Software streamlines rent, bookings, and communication with AI, analytics and community engagement.

AI enhances property management with automation, predictive analytics, and improved tenant experience while increasing efficiency and revenue.

Coworking IPOs,GCCs Driving Demand,Sustainability as a Standard,Market Consolidation in Europe, Decline of Niche Coworking

More Coliving Operators are Turning to Flex Living,Adaptable and Customizable Interiors

India’s coworking sector has bounced back, turning pandemic challenges into growth. As more companies go public, the future looks brighter than ever.

From marketing automation to rent collection, entire coliving operations can be managed through software. Read here to learn more.

Streamline mall operations with software that manages lease & tenant management, facilities booking, car parking, and visitor management.

Unveiling MonkSpaces.Ai - The ultimate platform to monetize, manage and grow ANY real estate portfolio

MonkSpaces.Ai property management software seamlessly integrates with Zoho for CRM-requiring property management businesses.

MonkSpaces.Ai's Plans allow managers to create a single plan that acts as a blueprint for multiple contracts.

Customizable lease terms like rent escalation and rent-free periods can be achieved with MonkSpaces.Ai. 

MonkSpaces.Ai allows an operator to maintain the units between move-ins and move-outs, ensuring a smooth tenant onboarding process.

MonkSpaces' Work Permit module helps property managers and operators handle the entire work permission process holistically.

MonkSpaces bring to the table a solution that changes the way visitor management and guest interactions are recorded.

In short term and hybrid rentals, pricing of rooms during weekends and holidays can be customized. Learn how you can configure it on MonkSpaces.Ai

MonkSpaces.Ai's products have accounting modules that cater to any user plus integrations with different Accounting softwares.

MonkSpaces has the capability to customize booking preferences based on every permutation and combination.

MonkSpaces.Ai has the capability to customize booking preferences based on every permutation and combination.

Discussing the shift in owners taking increased interest in managing their own properties, hence needing the use of a real estate management platform.

Customer Surveys enabled on MonkSpaces.Ai help property managers by automating the tenant feedback collection process.

The Gate Pass module on the system allows to access control and tracking visitor movement - something important to Property managers and Operators. 

MonkSpaces.Ai has a rent invoicing setup to deal with the challenges of generating the first-month rent invoice, when leases start mid-month. 

Operators tend to deal with delayed rental payments in the form of charging tenants late fees. Our system is capable of handling all that and more.

Companies are seeing a 70-80% increase in efficiency by switching to digital signing, reducing document handling costs by up to 85%.

MonkSpaces.Ai's full-fledged credit management system ensures operators can make use of to ensure easy, convenient bookings for common facilities

Managing availability based on the type of stay is most common in property management. This can be broken down into 3 types.

Hybrid Rentals combine both the aspects of long-term and short-term rentals, and this blog gives an insight on how to manage such rentals in your portfolio.

Real estate operators frequently provide ‘Credits’ to their tenants, which can be used to access and make bookings for shared facilities.

Finding the right match of a tenant for your property begins with a well-managed application process.

Here's the essential features a PMS supporting a coworking space should have, and what an operator needs to ensure ease in operations and business.

Operators often rely on traditional metrics like occupancy rates, when there are other metrics that can provide deeper insights.