Fifth Dimension: REITs Should Automate Audited Processes and Demand More Than Chatbots from Vendors
Why this matters
Commercial real estate continues to digest a multi-year reset in cost of capital. Transaction velocity is below the 2019-2021 trend but improving, cap rates have stabilized across most stabilized property types, and the bid-ask gap has narrowed materially in the past two quarters. Sponsors with permanent capital and operating platforms have an advantage in the current execution environment. Boston life sciences absorption has moderated from its 2021-2022 pace, and the market is working through a meaningful Cambridge sublease overhang. Multifamily and trophy office remain durable. The next twelve months will continue to reward underwriting discipline and operational sophistication over balance-sheet aggression.
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Image At the AdHoc 2026 conference in Boston this September, the audience at one of the sessions was asked a simple question: who has applied AI to a business process that is audited or formally controlled? The only h…
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