The Niche That Isn’t: Why “Alternative” Real Estate Sectors Are Now Mainstream Institutional Bets
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY IREI’s May 2026 feature reports that niche real estate sectors are moving into the institutional mainstream. Data centers, life sciences, student housing, senior housing, cold storage, and self-storage now attract dedicated fund strategies. Each sector brings unique metrics, reporting cadences, and operational profiles that traditional CRE frameworks were not designed to handle. Portfolio […]
How to Automate Manual Data Updates for Your Excel Models
Pereview helps firms transform time-consuming manual data updates and reporting to an AI-assisted workflow with specialized real estate data consultants in the loop to verify accuracy and validate reports for every PMC, OP, and Sponsor. They can also manage the entire process from getting the reports from these partners to data validation. With AI-powered data […]
Challenge 4: How to reduce complexity by managing debt and equity in one software platform
In the fourth and final post of our 2026 Asset Management Challenges series, we’re tackling a challenge that becomes harder as firms grow, strategies expand, and reporting expectations increase: managing debt and equity investments. For firms investing in both equity and debt, maintaining multiple software solutions is more expensive and time-consuming, it limits visibility across teams, and it makes it harder to understand performance. TL;DR: Highlight video on how to […]
Challenge 3: How PE real estate funds are using AI to turn property management reports into data intelligence
In the third post of our 2026 Asset Manager Challenges series, we’re taking a closer look at the painful, time‑consuming process of manually consolidating and standardizing property management data and how to transform it with AI. Private equity real estate fund managers who are not vertically integrated often receive rent rolls and trial balances from property management companies via email as PDF […]
Challenge 2: How to break down data silos across Asset Management teams
In the second blog in our 2026 Asset Manager Challenges series, we’re diving into a challenge that becomes more difficult as portfolios grow and reporting demands increase: critical data is spread across too many systems, files, and third parties. Real estate asset management teams don’t normally have a lack of data. The challenge is that the information they use to manage the portfolio is scattered across third-party property managers, operating partners, […]
Challenge 1: How to spend less time manually updating reports so you can focus on NOI
In the first post of our 2026 Asset Manager Challenges series, we address one of the most common and time-consuming issues: manually updating reports. Reporting should be a simple process, but it can quickly turn into a days- or weeks-long scavenger hunt: chasing down Property Management Companies (PMCs) for trial balances and rent rolls from a variety of source systems like Yardi, MRI, RealPage OneSite, or others, and manually updating Excel models for the current […]