As Triad Real Estate Partners’ Director of Research and Analytics, I spend a lot of time with my nose in spreadsheets, analyzing data, looking for trends, opportunities, anomalies. This process is generally conducted, at the bequest of a client, within the context of underwriting a specific student housing asset, while also surveying other properties in the market in order to judge the property’s performance against the market as a whole. Of course, the university itself is a key component, with student enrollment being the largest factor of all, dictating the …
