SaaS and data centralization: What you need to know
With data—and the insights that it can deliver—driving the modern economy, data centralization should be a priority for all companies, including commercial real estate (CRE) ...
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Rockport VAL's Modeling Options to Adjust the Net Operating Income in the Reversion Year
Rockport VAL allows users to modify the Net Operating Income (NOI) in the reversion year in the following ways: 1. Select a different residual value year to capitalize. 2. ...
What is the right modeling approach for the Reversion or Exit Year in a DCF?
In commercial real estate, analysts are frequently challenged with the periodic task of reasonably projecting and “predicting” the cash flow and valuation of a property whether it ...
Five reasons why data and cloud services are made for each other
We’ve discussed why it’s so important to keep hold of and refine your own data. And we’ve looked at cloud computing, and why true cloud-enabled products and services will power ...
Why open ecosystems are key to CRE value creation
Plumbing. It’s not sexy and we only think about it when something goes wrong. But without it, we’d be up to our necks. (I probably don’t need to finish that sentence!)
Don't let the sunk cost fallacy trap you into outdated technology
We’ve all likely fallen victim to the sunk cost fallacy at one time or another. Perhaps we have continued to watch a movie we hated all the way to the end because we already paid ...
Why is it important for CRE professionals to know when cloud computing is not cloud computing?
Cloud computing. Sounds fluffy, nebulous, and something best left for the techies? Not so. In fact, far from being an ephemeral technology trend we’ll all soon forget about, Cloud ...
How To Stop Doing Bad Data Deals & What To Do Instead
If data is modern day oil (we wrote about this here), then currently we’re at the start of a data rush! Data, at scale, and the insights we can derive from it, is going to be a ...
Why The CRE Industry Should Stop Giving Away Its Oil
You’ve undoubtedly heard the phrase “data is the new oil”. It refers to the driving force of the digital economy being data, as compared to the oil that powered (and still powers) ...
Can we still talk about customer experience in the digital age?
While I was preparing to write this article, my colleagues and I got into a useful, devil’s advocate kind of debate about whether things like customer service and experience, ...
How Cash Flow Modeling & Valuation platforms make your life easier and business more profitable
Traditionally, the commercial real estate industry has been sluggish to adopt new technologies. According to the Deloitte Insights 2022 Commercial Real Estate Outlook, 80% of the ...
White Paper - Build vs Buy (Part II - Strategy)
This is the second part of the "Build versus Buy" series of white papers.
White Paper - Build vs Buy (Part I - Cost)
Companies struggle with the idea of build versus buy all the time. Sometimes, the correct answer is abundantly obvious. Very few firms would choose to try to build their own phone ...
Efficiency of People & HeadCount
Good people are expensive, hard to come by, mission-critical to retain, and incredibly costly to replace. At the end of the day, they are your entire business.
Integrated Microsoft Excel
Underwriting has always been done in standalone Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. This approach has extensive benefits in terms of flexibility and analytic power. It also is limited ...
Rockport In-Depth Analysis
This document is meant to help a prospective client in their review of Rockport. This document is written in the third person to support if readers want to use elements of it in ...
The Value of Good Information
Systems are more than just a tool to do a job. The true value of systems is what they provide the business enterprise – Information, Insights, and Intelligence.