ClearCast is Clear Capital’s real estate fintech podcast. In its first episode of 2022, co-hosts Jeff Allen and Kenon Chen talk about new regulations surrounding desktop appraisals, say goodbye to an old friend of the show, and speak with Elizabeth Braman, CEO and co-founder of Revolution RE, about data solutions for owners and managers of multifamily and rental properties and portfolios.
Finance runs on numbers, and in rental housing those numbers start in operations. Rent rolls, occupancy, delinquency, and income statements are produced inside property management systems. Valuations, loan underwriting, investor reports, and acquisition models consume them downstream. Getting those figures out in one consistent shape is the gap Revolution RE was founded to close, and the story of why we started the company begins there.
Innovation here is less about new dashboards and more about the plumbing.
Delivery is where rental data starts to look like fintech. Standardized portfolio data can feed valuation, lending, and investment workflows as a clean input rather than a spreadsheet someone has to reconcile first. Our series on how rental property data became so messy covers how the industry got here.
The episode pairs a segment on desktop appraisal regulation with a conversation about rental property data. The hosts draw their own connections. Here are three that matter to anyone running an apartment portfolio.
A desktop appraisal values a property from records and data rather than a physical walkthrough. Any valuation that leans on data is only as reliable as the data it is given. For rental property, that data is the asset’s operating history, so its consistency is a valuation question as much as an operations question.
Lenders, investors, and partners ask for the same figures across every property. When those properties run on different systems with different definitions, a comparable answer is manual work repeated for every request. Standardized data makes it a routine output.
A portfolio’s operating data is the owner’s asset, not the software’s that happens to store it. Captured in a standardized form, it works across tools and can be shared or licensed on the owner’s terms. Our data licensing option exists for owners who want to put that asset to work.
A monthly podcast from Clear Capital with stories and ideas from the people, companies, and institutions working across real estate, finance, and technology. Jeff Allen, EVP of innovation labs, and Kenon Chen, EVP of corporate strategy, host it. Matt Lush, Jancy Ulch, and Shelby Ecklund also contribute.
On the episode page at Clear Capital’s podcast site, where every ClearCast episode is published.
Yes. Revolution RE was formerly known as JoyHub, which is why the episode page lists its guest as JoyHub’s co-founder and CEO. The company, its team, and its focus on rental property data are the same under the new name.
Valuation, underwriting, and investor reporting all start with the operating data your portfolio already produces. Standardize it once and every one of those conversations gets easier.
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