Fundamental Skills for Real Estate Development Professionals I - Financial Analysis

whitePaper | February 20, 2022

Real Estate as an investment has throughout history proven to be one of the strongest performing asset classes. As the largest asset class in the world with a combined estimated value of over $228 trillion, investing in Real Estate has many advantages over investing in stocks, bonds or mutual funds. The most notable benefits of investing in Real Estate and Real Estate-based financial products typically include: a predictable cash flow and ability to generate passive income, an improvable asset with the ability to appreciate in value, and an array of benefits surrounding leverage capabilities and tax advantages.

whitePaper | June 30, 2022

Post-COVID, real estate teams around the world are confronting enormous uncertainties around building occupancy, new usage patterns, and changing employee expectations. Following the massive remote work experiment caused by the pandemic, most employees now want the option to work from home at least part of the time. And especially at the high end of the labor market, employees have never had more leverage than today.

whitePaper | May 2, 2022

Across the hospitality asset landscape, decision-makers have continuously asked themselves how they can drive change within the industry and have circled back to the dire need for digitalisation, innovation and technological advancements. Processes need to be made smoother, and less time-consuming in order to produce the desired results and focus on what truly matters: paying attention to insights for a more profitable future. Data-driven decisions are at the forefront of any industry, but the question stands: If time is money, how much time and money can industries invest in manual data processes?

whitePaper | March 23, 2022

It’s hard to overstate the transformation that work has undergone during the pandemic. While some progressive organizations had implemented remote work policies previously, the vast majority of professional employees were in a routine of traditional commuting and in-office working, and found their lives and schedules upturned in 2020.

whitePaper | January 30, 2020

This article is the third in a series discussing the disruptors that are remaking commercial real estate and will impact the way we live, build, work, play and invest. Rather than thinking about technology as a defensive, isolated disruption of commercial real estate, we need to contemplate technology in the context of a disruptive framework and consider how technology and accelerated change will impact the built environment. Being strategic and applying research will prove key in evaluating the demand for real estate, the impact of technological change, and potential sources of disruption to how we build.

whitePaper | May 7, 2022

Real estate has always been a reliable way of storing value throughout history. It has gained popularity not only as a store of value but also as an income source over the last decades generating income for it’s owners. Although it is a secure way of storing value as an asset, it has become more difficult to obtain and invest in due to extensive paperwork, middlemans. It’s fast growing market capitalization led to a higher minimum entry barrier. It has gotten harder for the lower and middle class to become a homeowner dooming the working class to rent or a lifetime of mortgage payments.