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San Francisco, CA
Founder & CEO of Sightline Data. Former head of data science at a top-5 multifamily REIT.
For years, deal teams swore by Excel because every alternative was rigid, slow, or wrong. That excuse is expiring. A new generation of underwriting tools is fast, auditable, and — crucially — collaborative. From Artifact to System The shift is from the model as a one-off…
Required parking ratios are a hidden tax on housing — land and capital spent on cars instead of people. Eliminating them is among the highest-leverage reforms available, and it costs the public nothing. Less Concrete, More Homes When cities drop parking minimums, infill projects…
The first wave of real estate tokenization promised to democratize ownership and mostly delivered confusion. The second act is quieter, more institutional, and considerably more useful. Plumbing, Not Revolution The real value is in the back office: faster settlement, cleaner cap…
Office-to-residential conversion is the policy world's favorite solution to two problems at once. The reality is that the overwhelming majority of office buildings are terrible candidates. Floor Plates and Risers Decide Deep floor plates leave windowless interiors; central…
Centralizing leasing, maintenance dispatch, and back-office functions across a portfolio was the operational thesis of the last two years. With a year of data in, the results are clear and more nuanced than the pitch. Real Savings, Real Friction Payroll savings from centralized…