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Changing Interest Rates and the Importance of Underwriting

Changing Interest Rates and the Importance of Underwriting

Preservation of capital is the cornerstone of multifamily real estate investing. Paying close attention to interest rates and their impact…
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Marc Rutzen
Five Underwriting Habits That Build Trust With Clients

Five Underwriting Habits That Build Trust With Clients

There is enormous pressure put on real estate professionals to present trustworthy information. If you can’t justify that your data is…
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Marc Rutzen
How Automation and Predictive Analytics Can Help Real Estate Analysts Underwrite More Effectively

How Automation and Predictive Analytics Can Help Real Estate Analysts Underwrite More Effectively

In American folklore, John Henry was a steel-driving man — a man tasked with hammering a large steel drill into rock to help construct…
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Marc Rutzen
The 4 Best Real Estate Websites in 2019

The 4 Best Real Estate Websites in 2019

One reason so many people venture into multifamily real estate investment is the large volume of online resources available for beginning…
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Marc Rutzen
Three CRE Jobs That Will Change With The Rise Of Predictive Analytics

Three CRE Jobs That Will Change With The Rise Of Predictive Analytics

After speaking with hundreds of commercial real estate professionals during the development of our real estate predictive analytics…
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Marc Rutzen
How to Identify Rent Comps

How to Identify Rent Comps

In multifamily real estate, selecting good rent comps is the foundation of a sound analysis. If you select good rent comps, you know how…
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Marc Rutzen
When Rents Fall: 4 Things to Do in a Competitive Market

When Rents Fall: 4 Things to Do in a Competitive Market

Many major markets are again finding balance as construction starts have ticked upward to pace with demand. This occurrence means…
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Robert Johnson
Why Cap Rate Isn’t the Only Variable That Matters

Why Cap Rate Isn’t the Only Variable That Matters

A cap rate, or net operating income divided by the sale price, is often perceived as the most important metric to investors when…
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Robert Johnson
Assess Any Market With These 5 Data Points

Assess Any Market With These 5 Data Points

Decision making in this business is difficult. There is no standard measurement that can always be used to verify potential returns for a…
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Robert Johnson
Three Steps CRE Analysts Should Follow Before Going to Investment Committee

Three Steps CRE Analysts Should Follow Before Going to Investment Committee

What should a skilled commercial real estate analyst do to facilitate trust in their analyses? There are few guides on how to become an…
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Robert Johnson
How to Identify the Right Technology Solution for Your Real Estate Team

How to Identify the Right Technology Solution for Your Real Estate Team

Today’s top real estate professionals are always looking for new tools to gain a competitive advantage whether buying, selling, or…
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Robert Johnson
Is There Really Any Value To Add? Look At The Pro Forma

Is There Really Any Value To Add? Look At The Pro Forma

Another source of value that’s easy to manipulate and mess with is the pro forma expenses. The current operations are what they are, and…
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Robert Johnson
Is There Really Any Value To Add? Look At The Comps

Is There Really Any Value To Add? Look At The Comps

For the last few years, the name of the multifamily real estate game has been value-add. It seems like most investment packages in…
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Robert Johnson
How Lenders Are Going To Make Your Life Easier

How Lenders Are Going To Make Your Life Easier

When I first started working with large multifamily lenders, I was surprised how few of them made loans for apartments under 50 units…
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Enodo
Will Automation and AI in Real Estate Endanger Your Job?

Will Automation and AI in Real Estate Endanger Your Job?

The commercial real estate industry is getting bombarded with new tech platforms that use machine learning, predictive analytics and…
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Marc Rutzen
Why CRE Tech Tools Are An Analyst’s Best Friend

Why CRE Tech Tools Are An Analyst’s Best Friend

There is enormous pressure on real estate analysts to efficiently and consistently sort through and present the type of trustworthy…
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Enodo
Accelerate Desktop Underwriting To Get To “Go” or “No-Go” Decisions Faster

Accelerate Desktop Underwriting To Get To “Go” or “No-Go” Decisions Faster

In prehistoric times before smart phones, all of ten years ago, lenders could (and did) produce underwriting packets twelve inches tall…
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Enodo
Changing Interest Rates and the Importance of Underwriting

Changing Interest Rates and the Importance of Underwriting

Preservation of capital is the cornerstone of multifamily real estate investing. Paying close attention to interest rates and their impact…
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Enodo
How Enodo Makes Sense of Your Data

How Enodo Makes Sense of Your Data

Commercial real estate professionals are increasingly looking for new ways to gain competitive advantages as tools and approaches adapt…
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Marc Rutzen
Smart Clustering: The Future of Defining Market Boundaries

Smart Clustering: The Future of Defining Market Boundaries

Before determining the feasibility of an opportunity or value of an asset, real estate analysts and investors must complete a competitive…
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Marc Rutzen
The Analyst’s Role: Data Analysis (Part 2)

The Analyst’s Role: Data Analysis (Part 2)

Data “Analysis” has always been one of the commercial real estate phrases that rub me the wrong way. I put quotes on “Analysis” for a…
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Marc Rutzen
The Analyst’s Role: Data Collection (Part 1)

The Analyst’s Role: Data Collection (Part 1)

The approach to real estate investment analysis is broken. Of course the process differs by product type, company and region, but is…
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Marc Rutzen
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