#Columnists

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In this column on July 14, I wrote about something I believe is going to become increasingly important in business , par...

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Landlords underwrite the retail tenant. But they almost never underwrite the tenant’s customer. They should. That gap co...

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In New York City, 485-x is one of the few tools capable of restarting rental construction at a meaningful scale. It is a...

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Artificial intelligence can now produce work that looks remarkably finished. It can summarize a lease, review a rent rol...

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Every quarter, the same scene repeats across institutional real estate. A firm signs an enterprise AI deal or rolls out...

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Investors entered 2026 with a degree of confidence in a playbook that, for much of the past decade, had proved reliable:...

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Quantitative data drives and informs decision-making in the multitrillion-dollar commercial property sector, but what ul...

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Conventional wisdom suggests that as banks return to commercial real estate lending, private credit should begin losing...

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Five years ago, underwriting a mixed-use deal took a commercial real estate analyst more than a week. Today, an agentic...

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New York City’s market-rate apartment rents are reaching levels that would have seemed unimaginable just a few years ago...

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I’ve loved James Bond movies since I was a boy. Everything about them — the music, the cars, the villains, the confidenc...

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Artificial intelligence is no longer an emerging concept in commercial real estate. It is being tested, piloted and deba...

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Historically, commercial real estate has been defined by long cycles, “gut feelings” from industry experts, and relation...