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Integration Announcement: Planpoint

We're excited to announce that Spark is integrating with Planpoint, joining our growing ecosystem of compatible platforms. Planpoint serves some of Quebec’s leading developer and brokerage firms such as Bertone, Agency Six and Forum. Integration Overview The integration between Planpoint and Spark addresses key operational challenges faced

Q3 2024 Product Update

This past quarter, we've made two key additions to the Spark platform: Analytics & Juniper Homeowner Care! We've also partnered with Livabl to allow users to link their Livabl community leads with their Spark project account, as well as updated our existing integration with Zapier. Discover

Spark Acquires Juniper Homeowner Care

The acquisition expands Spark’s value proposition beyond the marketing & sales enablement of New Development homes.

New Feature: Spark Analytics

Introducing the newest feature addition to the Spark ecosystem: Spark Analytics! Whether you’re managing one project or several, Analytics makes reporting easier, faster, and smarter. You'll gain the ability to dive deeper into your valuable data and make informed decisions to successfully sell out your developments. Why

5 Minutes with Maddy Darby

Any company is only as strong as the people that comprise it. Our team's dedication and hard work is what allows us to keep serving our customers to the degree we can. As a result, we want to showcase them and their incredible talents. Maddy Darby, Customer Success

Integration Announcement: Livabl

At Spark, our mission is to provide visionary, data-driven products that power our clients' operations. This includes increasing the convenience and efficiency of your entire sales process, even spanning to your tools beyond the Spark platform. As a result, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve integrated with

How to Jumpstart your Fall Launch

With another fall launch season approaching, late summer is the pivotal time for sales teams to make sure they are fully prepared for what is to come. In order for your sales & marketing teams to be most effective, they need to leverage internal processes and tools that help expedite

Spark is doubling down on data security

At Spark we strive to continuously improve our platform, and that includes our commitment to strengthening our data security. As a result, our team has been working towards and achieved a significant milestone. We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded SOC 2 Type 1 compliance.  What is

Q2 2024 Product Update

Introducing our newest feature on Spark: Provincial Taxes & Rebates.  These calculations for Ontario and Quebec can be applied on inventory and automatically carried over to contracts.  Discover how this latest feature, our additional Stacking Plan & Analytics optimizations, and bugs & performance updates can benefit your team in our

Integration Announcement: Proxima HQ

We’re thrilled to announce that Spark is partnering with Proxima HQ! Together, we believe that our joint collaboration can propel the standard of New Development sales & marketing to new heights.  Integration Overview Through this partnership, users of both platforms will gain two key functionalities: 1) Seamless integration between

Spark Spotlight: Alicia Paysse

Alicia Paysse, Vice President of Development, Sales & Marketing at Cervera, is the latest guest in our Spotlight Series. Beginning her career in the aftermath of the 2007 housing market crash, Alicia’s willingness to help those affected ultimately helped her climb the ranks to her current position as VP.

Integration Announcement: Imerza

We’re pleased to announce that Imerza has joined our ecosystem of service providers that integrate with the Spark platform. To date, Imerza and Spark have already partnered on a number of projects, including Pier 66 by Tavistock and Gardena by Intracorp, and we look forward to providing a more

Q1 2024 Product Update

Introducing our 2 newest features on Spark: Analytics (Beta) and Request Forms! Discover how these latest features can benefit your team, as well as our new optimizations and bugs & performance updates in our Q1 2024 Product Update below: Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to find out about

International Women's Day 2024: Kim Maust

After 13 years of creating meaningful change with Habitat for Humanity, Kim Maust joined the New Development industry and quickly became Vice President at Bastion Development. Now an industry stalwart, Kim operates as a Vice President at Conwest Developments, where she oversees the entire development process for a multitude of

International Women's Day 2024: Jean Openshaw

Getting her start as a sales associate, Jean Openshaw worked her way through the industry to become the Vice President of Sales at Bosa Properties, one of Vancouver’s premier development firms. As a 17-year veteran at Bosa, Jean shared with us how she got her start in the industry,

International Women's Day 2024: Georgia Desjardins

When Seacliff Properties first became a Spark customer in 2022, I was amazed to learn that some of the largest master-planned projects in BC (The Beachlands, Sandstone, Fairwinds) were being managed by a core team of only 7 people. Georgia Desjardins, Director of Development at Seacliff, leads this small-but-mighty team

Top 10 Canadian New Development Brokerages

In the pre-construction world, developers are often the focal point of projects, with their names featured on the buildings. Behind the scenes, however, sales advisories are some developers’ secret weapon that keep these projects rolling, often providing marketing expertise, sales guidance and risk management. These trusted advisors and consultants turn

Q4 Product Highlights

Discover our newest features, optimizations and even a new feature sneak peek in our Q4 2023 Product Highlights! From Doc Portal optimizations to our upcoming Analytics Beta, check out the latest features and improvements we’ve made by below. Please reach out to your Customer Success Manager to find out

Top 10 Canadian Developers in 2023

In 2023, Canadian developers experienced new, unique challenges amidst an evolving real estate landscape. Despite these challenges, numerous Canadian developers have risen to the forefront; these real estate titans have continued to deliver thousands of new homes in Canada in the face of imposing market headwinds. To find out how

Why Luxury Real Estate Projects Need Sophisticated Tools

At Spark, we pride ourselves on being the only platform powering the world's most successful real estate project launches and sell-outs. Our end-to-end sales platform provides developers, project marketers and brokerages the tools needed to manage every aspect of selling New Development, all under a single login. We

Spark Spotlight: Simon S. Mass

I'm pleased to announce the newest featured participant of our Spotlight series, Simon S. Mass. The CEO and Founder of the The Condo Store (TCS), Simon holds over 26 years of real estate investment experience and is heralded as the architect of Toronto's pre-construction condo investment

Leading up to Launch: Critical Milestones

The performance of a project launch can often dictate the success or failure of the entire project sales cycle.  At Spark we have helped hundreds of developers and brokerages launch thousands of unique projects across North America. Some have been monumental successes, such as selling 350 units in 36 hours,

4 Ways to Have a Good Launch in a Bad Real Estate Market

Guest Post by Riel Sammy of Channel 13 Today’s real estate market is not the same as it was in 2021.  Navigating these turbulent market conditions can be challenging as economic downturns, rising interest rates, and changes in consumer preference can greatly dampen the market’s performance.  However, with

Q3 Product Highlights

New features, performance optimizations and even a sneak peek. From our refreshed Stacking Plan to the newly launched Doc Portal, discover the latest features and improvements we’ve made below! Please reach out to your Customer Success Manager to find out about how you can add these latest features on

5 Minutes with Kate Bowering

Spark's Resident Toronto Project Launch Specialist At Spark, a huge part of what sets us apart, and something we take great pride in, is the dedicated support we provide our clients. Led by our Customer Success team, we take the time to learn your team's goals

Spark Spotlight: Stuart Siegel, Engel & Völkers

The Real Estate Guy A few months ago, my team and I were invited to attend and speak at Engel & Völkers Americas annual conference, EVX, where I had the pleasure of meeting Stuart Siegel. Not only is Stuart the Chief Strategy Officer of Engel & Völkers Americas, the Global

Product Update: New Stacking Plan

Get excited: Spark’s Stacking Plan has a sleek new design! From improved List View Filters to our new Heat Map toggle, we’ve overhauled our Stacking Plan interface to help your team better visualize current sales and take immediate action through a more interactive and intuitive Inventory Dashboard. Reach

Adaptive Reuse: 6 Office-to-Residential Conversions in North America

With several North American cities facing high office vacancy rates, surging residential rents and increasing housing shortages, the concept of repurposing empty office buildings into housing is becoming a hot topic. Developers and city officials in major urban centres are exploring the viability of the adaptive reuse process of converting

Q2 2023 Product Highlights

From launching our game-changing Parking & Storage Management feature to optimizing Inventory Fallback Statuses, our Product and Development teams were once again hard at work this past quarter. Discover the advancements we made to our platform over the past quarter and how you can best leverage them. Read our Knowledge

4 Questions Asked About Email Marketing

We’ve gathered our most popular questions and answered them for you below to help you reach your customers and strengthen your email campaigns.

Selling Mass Timber Developments

Canada's leading mass timber developer discusses how selling the product has changed since the beginning.

5 Minutes with Conor Halloran

Spark’s resident whiskey conor-isseur

Branded Residences Are Rising Above the Rest

In a period plagued by high interest rates and fears of a recession, there is seemingly one sector that is unaffected Branded residences — luxury residential developments tied to a well known hotel or lifestyle brand — are not a novel concept. While the first branded hotel residence debuted in the 1960s,

Q1 2023 Product Highlights

Last quarter, our Product and Development teams were hard at work to ensure your experience with Spark is better than ever. We’ve added new features such as API V2 and our Product Feedback & Feature Help tool, while also making a number of optimizations like revamping our Registration Form

5 Landmark Indigenous Development Projects

Over the last decade, Canada has seen an increase in the number of major Indigenous-led real estate development projects, marking only the beginning of a new era of economic reconciliation. Forming partnerships with developers and government, Indigenous Nations across the country are undertaking significant projects on reclaimed ancestral lands and

Spark Spotlight: Jennifer Podmore Russell, International Women's Day 2023

Our annual International Women’s Day feature is something I look forward to each year. It is an opportunity for us, and me in particular, to highlight a range of incredible women at different points in their careers in the traditional industry of New Development. The official theme of International

Spark Spotlight: Katie Maslechko, International Women's Day 2023

Our annual International Women’s Day feature is something I look forward to each year. It is an opportunity for us, and me in particular, to highlight a range of incredible women at different points in their careers in the traditional industry of New Development. The official theme of International

Spark Spotlight: Danielle Reed, International Women's Day 2023

Our annual International Women’s Day feature is something I look forward to each year. It is an opportunity for us, and me in particular, to highlight a range of incredible women at different points in their careers in the traditional industry of New Development. The official theme of International

Spark Spotlight: Manpreet Berar, International Women's Day 2023

Our annual International Women’s Day feature is something I look forward to each year. It is an opportunity for us, and me in particular, to highlight a range of incredible women at different points in their careers in the traditional industry of New Development. The official theme of International

Key Benefits of Spark’s Email Sync

Email communication is one of the most vital tools for New Development sales teams to engage with their prospects. Sales reps are able to quickly and easily reach their leads while still being able to convey important information. However, traditional email providers are not optimized for managing New Development sales

Best Practices with Data in Spark

To help your team maximize its efforts, here are some best practices we recommend to manage and utilize your data from Spark.

Q4 2022 Product Highlights

Last quarter, our Product and Development teams were hard at work to ensure your experience with Spark is better than ever. We’ve added new features such as Minimum Release prices and our new Resource Centre, while also making a number of optimizations like revamping our Project Sales report.  Please

2022: Regroup, Reflect, Refuel

A year in review

How to optimize your CRM at every stage of the sales process

Key insights from first hand experience to help you reduce late night anxiety during a project launch.

5 Minutes with Matt Harrison

Spark’s Customer Success All-Star Turned Product Prodigy

Product Highlights: Q3 2022 Edition

Integrated email communication, conveyancing enhancements and a preview of our upcoming Document Portal feature.

6 Projects Taking Denver to New Heights

Major Milestones in the Mile High Metro

Product Highlights: Q2 2022 Edition

Integrated Parking Management, contract communication optimizations and a look at our upcoming Email Sync feature We strive continually to deliver key solutions for our clients evolving needs. From April to June, our Product and Development teams focussed on creating and improving features around Parking Management as well as Contract Communication

Top 10 Canadian Developers in 2022

The real estate developers making the largest impact on urban environments, nationwide.

7 Starchitect Powered Projects Launching in 2022

Designs by top firms are an increasingly desired aspect in home buyer consideration.

Product Highlights: Q1 2022 Edition

Building on the momentum of last year, we kicked off 2022 by making some major feature enhancements to our platform. Over the past three months our Development team worked tirelessly on the expansion of our Reservations feature. Whether you are a Developer, Project Marketer, Brokerage team, or an Administrator, Manager

6 Projects Leading Austin’s New Development

You only need to be paying a little bit of attention to know how hot Austin is right now.

International Women’s Day 2022

Celebrating Leaders in New Development

Spark Spotlight: Austin Birch

5 Questions in 5 Minutes with Jamie Sarner, Co-founder & Principal

Q4 Product Highlights — Building for 2022

We can hardly believe that Q4 has already come and past, yet looking back we were so busy it is not surprising it flew by. This quarter we continued to push out key optimizations that will enhance your day-to-day workflows exponentially. From October to December our Product and Development teams

Spark Announces Key New Hire

Miami Real Estate Heavyweight Carlos A. Alonso Joins Spark

5 Minutes with David Neal

Spark’s Resident Cool Cat

Spark Spotlight: Meg Epstein

Q&A with the Founder and CEO of CA South

Mail Privacy Protection: Implications for Real Estate Marketing Emails

The privacy world continues to change for email marketers everywhere. Apple has officially launched iOS 15 which contains several privacy…

Mail Privacy Protection: Implications for Spark Users

The privacy world continues to change for email marketers everywhere. Apple has officially launched iOS 15 which contains several privacy…

Reduce & Replenish

Real estate and tech leaders join forces for National Tree Day

Spark Spotlight: Marie-Laure Frère

Q&A with the Director of Sales, Four Seasons Private Residences Nashville

5 Minutes with Richard Causton

Spark’s Resident Client Whisperer

5 Minutes With Abigail Gavin

Spark’s resident Nerd Herder

Art as an Amenity

New Developments Hottest Value-add

5 Minutes with Divina Tadeja

Spark’s resident accoutrements loving AE

Miami Heat: 10 Red Hot Projects from the 305

A little over a year ago, when the world more or less shut down, it was hard to predict how the real estate market would fare. However…

Influential Women in Canadian New Development Real Estate

Over the last 7 years, our team has had the privilege of working with incredible people making an impact in the real estate development…

Spark Spotlight: Anne McMullin

Q&A with President and CEO, Urban Development Institute, Anne McMullin

Spark Spotlight: Barbara Lawlor

Q&A with the CEO of Baker Real Estate Incorporated

Spark Spotlight: Lianne McOuat

Q&A with VP Strategy at McOuat Partnership, Lianne McOuat

Spark Spotlight: Elva Kim

Q&A with EVP of Sales & Marketing, Anthem Properties, Elva Kim

Spark Spotlight: Diana McMeekin

Q&A with President of Artemis Marketing Group, Diana McMeekin

Spark Spotlight: Courtney Cooper

Q&A with Principal, Alate Partners + Co Founder, Proptech Collective

Spark Spotlight: Sherry Larjani

Q&A with the President,Spotlight Development Inc.

Spark Spotlight: Jenny Wun

Q&A with Jenny Wun

7 Historic Adaptive Reuse Developments from Around the World

The Woolworth Tower Residences

A Digitally Accelerated Year

A 2020 retrospective on a very unexpected year .

World’s Most Luxury Towers Launch with Spark & Property Platform

Waldorf Astoria Residences – A New York Icon.

5 Extraordinary Adaptive Reuse Projects From Around the World

Adaptive reuse is defined as the aesthetic process of reusing an existing building for a purpose other than which it was originally built…

How To: Sell New Development Projects Digitally in 2020

At Spark, we’ve been helping our clients go fully digital with their sales and marketing strategy since before the concept of digital deal…

How the New Development World is Adapting to Covid-19

With fewer and fewer in person meetings happening around the world, new development sales and marketing teams have had to adapt quickly in…

The Role of Adaptive Reuse in New Development and Sustainability

In the current domain of new development real estate, sustainability and uniqueness are two major features that developers strive to…

Spark Updates February 2020

Contract Filters, Commission Conditions, and more!

Spark Updates January 2020

Introducing list filtering, on-site registration forms, and more!

The Rise of Public Art in Private Development

Real Estate’s Push Towards Public Art Installations In new development builds, art is no longer a nice-to-have. These are some of the standout new developments that have included public art as part of their community offering.

3 Unexpectedly Great Cities for New Development in North America

These urban centers are on the rise. Here is a list of three cities across North America that we believe are pushing the boundaries of new development through a fresh approach to urban revitalization and improvement.

Starchitects Reimagining Downtown Vancouver

World-class architectural icons are bringing innovative new designs into Vancouver real estate. Several new high-end projects designed by internationally renowned “starchitects” are in the works for downtown.

Blockchain: The Future of Proptech?

How blockchain will disrupt the real estate industry New technology, such as smart contracts powered by blockchain, is on the brink of pushing forward technology innovation in real estate.

Spark Updates May 2019

Imports, reporting, commissions upgrades, and more. Learn more about the most recent updates to the Spark real estate sales platform, including importer, reporting and commission upgrades.

Downtown Vancouver: Redevelopment and the Changes We Expect to See

A new art gallery, post office, and viaduct connector are in store for Vancouver. In a few years from now, Vancouver’s downtown core will find itself looking quite different.

Contact Management within Spark

Real Estate Leads 101 Mismanaged leads are a drain on your team. Here’s how you can use Spark’s contact management system to create a smooth sales process from end-to-end.

Takeaways from Spark’s First Hackathon

Using Customer Feedback to Make Better Real Estate Technology To quickly learn and harness the features of a PDF tool for the software platform, Spark held its official hackathon!

Spark Updates March 2019

Floorplan details, agent tiers, deposit payment status and more. Some updates to our platform this March!

How to Prepare Real Estate Contracts Digitally

Writing (and Completing) Contracts with Spark Preparing real estate contracts can be time-consuming and tedious. That’s why we’ve put focus on making the sales transaction process intuitive and simple with our digital contract workflow.

Spark Updates November 2018

Quality of life improvements and demo accounts. The Spark development team is gearing up for an exciting close to 2018! In the meantime, here are a few of the features we’ve released over the past month.

Spark Updates October 2018

Improved workflows, signature notifications and more! New features in Spark this month are will help speed up your workflow, stay on top of collecting signatures for contracts, improve your reporting, and more.

Spark Updates September 2018

Multiple offers, improved signing processes, and much more! As more people bring their real estate contract process online with Spark, we’ve been working hard to make that process as smooth and fast as possible.

Manage Multiple Offers with Software for Real Estate Contracts

How to Manage Real Estate Contracts Online Spark’s real estate contracts software is built into the main platform, and we’ve just released a major upgrade to help new home sales teams manage multiple offers on individual inventory units.

Spark Updates July 2018

Calendar subscriptions, contract improvements, a custom reporting beta release, and much more! Summer is well underway and so far it's brought a lot of updates to Spark! This month we've added some highly requested features, including calendar subscriptions and our custom reports beta.

Spark Updates May 2018

Directional padding, Recipient Breakdown, user avatars, and infrastructure optimizations are part of this month's additions! Have you noticed anything different? This month, Spark has undergone some major structural upgrades, as well as introduced several small features that will hopefully mean

Spark Updates April 2018

Project-wide price history, Standardized Fields, and Realtime Mass Action Notifications are among the updates this month The Spark development team has been busy as usual over the past few weeks, working on lots of behind-the-scenes improvements as well as several new features we’re excited to intr

Spark Updates March 2018

Lots of new features have rolled out in Spark over the past few weeks. We’ve been expanding our software development team so expect to see…

Custom Data Exports

Build your own exports to get the exact data you need.

Spark’s Best Of: 10 Best Canadian Real Estate Projects

Looking for the newest version of this blog? Check out the Top Canadian Real Estate Developers of 2019.

A Year In Review — What We’ve Built In 2017

It’s been another incredible year for the development team here at Spark. We’ve grown our team, added and improved lots of features and…

Spark Updates November 2017

November has been another busy month here at Spark. As we get close to the end of the year we’ve been focussing on improving current…

Company Campaigns

A new way to engage with your database

Contract File Management

An easier way to manage real estate contracts online.

Spark Updates October 2017

Contact tags, purchaser searches, domain registration and more!

What’s new this fall

A roundup of the most recent Spark updates

Contact & Rating Updates

Our company portfolio upgrades are just the start of what will be a whole new way to use Spark! That being said, many of our users will…

Contract Updates

We have made a few updates to the contract section that are currently only pertinent to the clients using our Contract PDF feature. Now…

Company Portfolio Management

A new section with a company wide contact list

Stacking Plan Upgrades

Yesterday, Spark released some very cool upgrades to our stacking plan view. You can find this section in your project menu under…

Spark Updates August 2017

It has been an exceptionally busy summer for Spark, and most of us on the tech team have been occupied with back-end optimizations since…

Spark Slims Down for Summer

We’re excited to announce Spark is getting a new look!

Manage Your Contracts and Deposits

You may have noticed we’ve been making lots of improvements to the contracts section in Spark. As contracts become a larger part of our…

Two More Real Estate Nerds of Spark

Meet: Kelly and Natasha

Spark Partners With DocuSign

The first Real Estate CRM with eSignatures powered by DocuSign

Tech Takeaways from Railsconf

Last week, the Spark tech team took a break from Vancouver rain and travelled to sunny Phoenix to broaden our minds at Railsconf 2017.

Introducing the New Face of Customer Success at Spark

You may have noticed that the Spark blog has been a bit quiet over the past couple of months, but don’t worry — it’s not because we’re…

Populate Your Contracts With Spark

Save time and never write contracts by hand again.

A year of development at Spark

An overview of what we’ve built in 2016

Spark Updates October 2016

It’s been a busy month at Spark with lots of software updates. Here are a few of the features and improvements we’ve released:

New Follow-Up Schedules

This new feature in Spark will give your sales team the tools to streamline workflow, maximize data collection (while minimizing entry) and…

Learning from the best at Github Universe

A recap of Spark’s experience in San Francisco.

Registration Form Upgrades

As our clients know, registration forms are one of the most integral pieces of Spark. These are how you funnel your leads into the database…

Designing emails to avoid spam filters.

Wondering why customers don’t receive your emails? It’s likely because they’re getting spam filtered.

New Designer/Marketer Permission

Spark has just introduced a new permission level: Designer/Marketer! For clients using outside agencies to generate marketing materials…

Redesigned Overview Dashboards

Today we’re launching new contact, inventory, and email overviews in Spark. We redesigned each one to create valuable new dashboards for…

Spark Updates June 2016

This month, Spark has had a number of improvements done ‘under the hood’, and we’re still working hard on some larger-scale changes to the…

Spark Updates May 2016

Most updates have been about the bigger features we are working on, but Spark is improving daily with smaller changes. These usually go…

Adding Some Structure to Deposits

Today Spark launches a new feature: deposit structures! This will enable users to set up a project-wide deposit schedule that can be…

Build Your Own Apps with Spark’s Contact API

We just released our contact API (application program interface). This means that for the first time, you will be able to retrieve your…

Task Management and Event Tips

Time to put on your party hats — today we’re releasing an exciting upgrade to the Spark Agenda! While we’ve kept all the attributes of our…

Introducing Your Company’s Portfolio

Developers often have many projects on the go and need a single place to manage them. To solve this, we’re excited to launch our new…

Mapping Your Projects, Faster Navigation and Improved Email Tracking.

Get an Overview of all Your Project Locations

Bedroom Availability, File Tags, and a Wizard

This week, we’ve implemented a couple of simple but significant enhancements to the Availability and Files sections of Spark, as well as an…

Carpenter Updates — New Buttons, Alignment Tools and More!

All the latest Carpenter updates and HTML email statistics from Spark.