MARKET OUTLOOK,REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT
Cherre | November 10, 2022
Cherre, the leading data integration and insights platform, today announced a new partnership with Clear Capital, a national real estate valuation technology company. The partnership will allow Cherre customers to leverage Clear Capital’s expansive property analytics alongside other internal systems and application data, enabling customers to conduct more accurate modeling and better risk assessments, and identify investment opportunities more efficiently and at a lower cost.
As market demand for property investment continues, the need for timely, accurate, ready-to-use property information has become even more pronounced. By partnering, mutual customers will have seamless access to Clear Capital's complete set of property information and analytics, including insights from a wide range of residential properties and 93% of all listings in the U.S., updated daily. Additionally, Clear Capital opens the door to insights on properties that are often unattainable, thus removing the barrier to transaction information in non-disclosure states.
Erlind Dine, head of data partnerships at Cherre, said Clear Capital’s hard-to-source property insights will help provide additional value to Cherre customers. By combining Clear Capital’s comprehensive property analytics with data sources within Cherre, we’re able to make the most up to date, extensive datasets available to our customers.
“Both Clear Capital and Cherre are devoted to granting our customers the highest-quality analytics, By providing seamless integration between various platforms, customers are guaranteed accurate and robust underwriting tools that drive smarter, data-driven decisions for acquisitions and property management."
-James Marshall, director of real estate analytics products at Clear Capital
Clear Capital's data engineering and machine learning capabilities lead the valuation space, with unique approaches to sourcing, aggregating, and analyzing U.S. residential real estate to provide insight on property value with accompanying contextual data.
Cherre specializes in the ingestion, standardization, resolution, integration, and delivery of real estate data from internal, third party, and public data sources. Cherre’s growing Connections Marketplace allows customers to seamlessly connect new data sets, providing a holistic portfolio view contextualized and benchmarked against market-wide intelligence.
About Cherre
Cherre is the leader in real estate data and insight. They connect decision makers to accurate property and market information, and help them make faster, smarter decisions. By providing a unique “single source of truth,” Cherre empowers customers to evaluate opportunities and trends faster and more accurately, while saving millions of dollars in manual data collection and analytics costs. Cherre launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City.
About Clear Capital
Clear Capital is a national real estate valuation technology company with a simple purpose: to build confidence in real estate decisions to strengthen communities and improve lives. Our goal is to provide customers with a complete understanding of every U.S. property through our field valuation services and analytics tools, and improve their workflows with our platform technologies. Our commitment to excellence – wherever it leads, whatever it takes® – is embodied by our team members across four brands (Clear Capital, Clario, CubiCasa, and REO Network) and has remained steadfast in this pursuit since our first order in 2001.
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MARKET OUTLOOK, REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT
Eastdil Secured | October 06, 2022
Eastdil Secured, L.L.C. (“Eastdil Secured”), the global real estate investment bank, and Project Destined, a leading social impact platform that provides training in financial literacy, entrepreneurship and real estate, have launched their fall commercial real estate bootcamp. The program stems from Eastdil Secured’s existing partnership with Project Destined, and consists of a five-week “bootcamp” training program, where 50 students across the U.S. will learn from more than two dozen Eastdil Secured professionals and mentors about key topics in the commercial real estate industry, including:
Eastdil Secured’s History and Its Business
Interviewing, Recruiting, and Professional Use of Social Media
Year One as an Analyst at Eastdil Secured
How to Pitch Yourself and a Deal
Professional Networking
This bootcamp will provide an unprecedented opportunity for Project Destined students to learn from leaders in commercial real estate investment banking, as well as earn both an ARGUS certification from Altus Group and a Financial Modeling Certification through Project Destined’s partnership with NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate and Columbia Graduate School of Real Estate. In addition to weekly bootcamp sessions, accepted fellows will receive scholarships to participate in Project Destined’s paid virtual internship and bootcamp activities, including visits to Eastdil Secured offices across the U.S.
“At Eastdil Secured, creating opportunities across our industry for diverse candidates is a longstanding commitment. Our ongoing partnership with Project Destined has allowed us to deliver on that, while helping to develop the next generation of leaders in commercial real estate, Over the last year, we have watched the transformation of the students we have sponsored through Project Destined, and the training, access and experience this offers participants will serve them for years to come. We look forward to expanding our partnership with Project Destined with this bootcamp program and watching its alumni succeed – no matter where their careers take them.”
-Roy March, CEO of Eastdil Secured
As part of the bootcamp program, Eastdil Secured professionals and mentors will prepare, engage and guide students one-on-one to help them develop a range of fundamentals including financial, technical, presentation and leadership skills designed to aid their search for internships, certifications and full-time employment in the commercial real estate industry.
We are excited to expand our partnership with Eastdil Secured and prepare this incredible group of students for a career in commercial real estate, The real estate industry provides unparalleled opportunities to build a great career while also impacting your community. The network, skills and access that this bootcamp provides will ensure that these students are ready to take on this opportunity,said Cedric Bobo, Co-Founder of Project Destined.
Following the successful sponsorship of a New York-based Project Destined team in Summer 2021, Eastdil Secured helped Project Destined serve more students by sponsoring three teams for Spring 2022 in New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta. Eastdil Secured is also delighted to announce that two Project Destined program alumni will join the firm as full-time analysts in 2023, following internship program placements in New York and Santa Monica, California.
Since its founding in 2016, Project Destined has worked with more than 3,500 participants in 35 cities across the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom and Europe. Eastdil Secured’s partnership will support Project Destined and its mission to provide training in financial literacy, entrepreneurship and real estate to students from underserved communities.
About Eastdil Secured
As the most relevant and trusted advisor in the commercial real estate capital markets, Eastdil Secured creates value for clients through creative, actionable ideas and flawless execution. With an unrivaled combination of capital markets expertise and in-depth understanding of real estate fundamentals, Eastdil Secured delivers best-in-class advice on mergers and acquisitions, sales, joint ventures, debt placement, structured credit and loan sales to investors around the world. Headquartered in New York, Eastdil Secured has a broad global footprint to support clients with offices across the United States in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, Orange County, San Francisco, Seattle, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., and internationally in Dubai, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Milan, Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
About Project Destined
Project Destined is a leading social impact platform that provides training in financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and real estate. Project Destined partners with corporations, schools, and non-profits to deliver training using its proprietary e-learning platform and love courses. Project Destined leverages a work-based learning approach where students work with executives to evaluate live deals in their community and present them in a pitch competition to industry leaders. Scholars emerge with the skills, confidence, experiences, and networks that prepare them to secure a strong first job and become stakeholders in their community.
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REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT
RealPage | October 03, 2022
RealPage, a leading global provider of software and data analytics to the real estate industry, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Knock® CRM (Knock), a provider of leading customer relationship management (CRM) and front office technology in the multifamily industry. This strategic acquisition combines Knock’s suite of products with RealPage’s deep expertise in AI, yield management and smart property management solutions.
Together, RealPage and Knock will create a next-generation operating platform to maximize net operating income (NOI) for the multifamily sector’s multi-trillion dollar asset class. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the coming days. Financial terms were not disclosed.
“Acquiring Knock accelerates our strategy to deliver a next-generation front office platform that supports centralized leasing, Today's market conditions are driving property owners and operators to rethink operations to drive efficiency. Together with Knock, RealPage will meet our customers' needs with a connected platform that enables an AI-driven virtual operating model.”
- Dana Jones, CEO of RealPage
Founded in 2014, Knock has scaled its core CRM product to serve millions of apartment units across North America with the leading integrated suite of front office technology, providing multifamily owners and operators the capabilities they need to acquire and retain residents more profitably. Knock’s API-first platform integrates easily into any property management system (PMS) and will maintain this flexibility as it becomes part of RealPage’s open, PMS-agnostic front office platform.
RealPage and Knock share an identical vision for a truly connected and intelligent front office. Together we will realize this vision faster, and the combination will enable us to go even further on our commitment to delivering both the technology and customer service our customers need to offer a best-in-class prospect-to-resident experience, said Demetri Themelis, CEO and co-founder of Knock.
This is as much about the team as it is the technology, There’s a reason Knock has such a tremendous reputation in multifamily. We’re excited to begin working together as one team to drive greater value and the best possible experience for our customers,added Jones.
About RealPage
RealPage provides a technology platform that enables real estate owners and managers to change how people experience and use rental space. Clients use the platform to gain transparency into asset performance, leverage data insights and monetize space to create incremental yields. Founded in 1998, and headquartered in Richardson, Texas, RealPage is backed by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo. RealPage currently serves over 22 million units worldwide from offices in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
About Knock
Knock offers an integrated suite of front office technology that provides multifamily owners and operators with the capabilities they need to more profitably acquire and retain high-value, long-term residents. Knock CRM empowers leasing teams with tools to accelerate successful leasing and renewal outcomes, provides marketers the data to optimize spend, and ensures executives have the business intelligence and insights needed to outperform their competitors. Founded in 2014, and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Knock proudly serves millions of units operated by the fastest-growing management organizations in multifamily. It is regularly named as one of the fastest growing companies in America as well as one of the Best Places to Work in Seattle.
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