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Battlefields in the housing market

Story telling is an important skill for all entrepreneurs and real estate professionals. In Dec of 2025 Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder of the Institutional Real Estate Investor, talks about how to effectively use story telling in working with clients and potential partners. This podcast s worth a listen.

Great data for anyone studying the office market, occupancy levels and utilization by sector.

Housing shortage resolved?

The real estate sector's complex, multimodal, and spatially dependent data presents unique challenges that artificial intelligence (AI) is well-suited to address. In this review, we distinguish real estate applications from those in general finance by highlighting four key pillars: spatial dependence, asset heterogeneity, the primacy of unstructured data, and distinct institutional and theoretical foundations.

Short report on measuring our carbon footprint and methods to reduce it.

Short blog published in the Property Chronicle

The Exploding Growth of Data creates a need for Data Centers

Blogs and perspectives from industry professionals on current trends in the economy and real estate.

AI in commercial real estate is drowning in hype. Someone says they “ran the deal through AI.” Nobody asks what that means — which model, what inputs, whether anyone verified the output. The meeting moves on. That moment is becoming common. And the gap between “we use AI” and “we understand what AI is actually doing with our data” is where expensive mistakes live. A model that silently drops half your rent roll, fabricates a comp, or miscalculates a waterfall distribution looks exactly the same as one that gets it right. The output is confident either way. This guide closes that gap. It’s a practical explanation of how Large Language Models work, written for commercial real estate professionals. You’ll learn the core mechanics — tokens, context windows, prompting, hallucinations — through CRE workflows and examples. By the end, you’ll understand enough to evaluate any AI tool on the market, ask informed questions, and avoid the mistakes that cost real money on real deals.

Compiled by the Apers team, ex-REPE investors, debt originators, and analysts who got tired of losing nights to Excel and decided to build something better. This isn’t your typical career guide with generic advice. This is the unvarnished truth about breaking into an industry that can make you quietly wealthy or spectacularly broke. Humbly contributed by Francis Huang and Ellis Long.

This is a great map by Ian Kennedy that includes property taxes, property insurance, water, sewer, electricity and gas expenses at the metro level.

Shaping the future of the built environment for transformative impact in communities worldwide

Employment and wages data by MSA, Counties, States by NAICS or national.

This is a chronological order map from 12/31/2022 until at least 2025 by month showing housing permits at the county level.

This is one slide with sample data analysis showing how varied real home prices have changed.

The most widely used rating system for individual buildings in the US and globally.

Lifelong learning master's degree certificate in Real Estate Consultancy, Management and Promotion

Graduate and undergraduate program and industry conferences, scholarships and more.

A large real estate undergrad program.

What does science say about the housing market?

What does science say about the housing market by Professor Piet Eicholtz

What is Proptech and How is it Transforming Real Estate?

How does real estate fit into a diversified portfolio?

Insulate your home?

Most of these reports are free, updated monthly, covering MF, student housing, office, industrial and more at both the national level and metro level for major markets. For more detail contact Doug Ressler <Doug.Ressler@yardi.com>

Zonda is one of the US's leading consulting firms for housing market analysis, trends, feasibility studies and consulting with nationwide coverage.