When AI makes Excel harder, not easier Many of us already suspect it: AI can add complexity instead of removing it. The old “tech productivity paradox” is back. Poor adoption of AI is slowing teams down, not speeding them up and more reports are emerging. While the AI hype train is on the move, tryingContinue reading “3 Dangers of AI and Excel in Commercial Real Estate”
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Simplifying IRR Verification for CRE Professionals
Columbia University’s new research method vs. Dashflow’s user-friendly solution Let’s cut through the jargon for a moment. If you’re a UK Chartered Surveyor or American Capital Markets broker who’s more at home interacting with institutional clients than wrestling with complex financial spreadsheets, you’re not alone. The rabbit hole of financial modelling and crunching IRRs isn’tContinue reading “Simplifying IRR Verification for CRE Professionals”
A leading AI Political Speech for our times
Last week the mainstream press remained fixated on Tony Blair’s migration and tax comments, close on the heels of Sir Keir Starmer’s newly-assembled government. If one ignores this, we may manage to digest one of the leading British political speeches about Artificial Intelligence: When we listen to Blair’s speech on its own terms, “there isContinue reading “A leading AI Political Speech for our times”
Bridging the Gap: how to overcome AI Excel Modelling fears in Commercial Real Estate
Managers that understand Validation vs. Verification are more likely to lead and benefit from AI adoption to generate rapid and safer client cashflows. Given today’s pace of change, it’s crucial to keep up with emerging technologies, especially in the realm of AI and automated modelling. Team labour required to put deals together is at theContinue reading “Bridging the Gap: how to overcome AI Excel Modelling fears in Commercial Real Estate”
ChatGPT and real estate cash flows
Is the explosion of ChatGPT about to disrupt the livelihoods of real estate investment analysts any time soon? And will opportunities at entry level be at risk? Who, how and what will be produced to satisfy the ongoing institutional needs for discounted cash flow modelling and demands of acquisition, asset management and client reporting dueContinue reading “ChatGPT and real estate cash flows”
ChatGPT acts as different Real Estate professionals.
It seems that every journalist is writing about ChatGPT. We invited ChatGPT to a Q&A behaving like a Real Estate investor sceptical about tech, and then asked ChatGPT to review the Q&A and write an article like a Real Estate journalist. ChatGPT: “Here’s my [default] response as a commercial real estate private equity professional whoContinue reading “ChatGPT acts as different Real Estate professionals.”