Why Realpage Bought Cherre
Realpage is betting that decades of accumulated data can become an AI-era advantage
Real Estate Investment
Real estate investment strategy across asset classes, with an emphasis on the niches institutional capital has not yet picked over. Thesis Driven dives into operator deep dives and sponsor profiles, buy box construction, niche and alternative asset classes, what it takes for a novel product to institutionalize, off-market and distressed sourcing, and the yield and risk tradeoffs behind each strategy.
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The World’s Most Innovative Developers, 2026
From all-electric skyscrapers to floating offices and carbon-neutral urban development, these firms are redefining the future of the built world
Deep Dive: Proper
An innovative tech-enabled property management rollup built for the age of centralization
Deep Dive: Alpaca Real Estate
Alpaca Real Estate is building private equity with AI at the core. How the platform works and what it signals for the asset class.
Can Branded Multifamily Work?
The last bastion of unbranded consumer spend is enticing. But is it a dead end?
Was Institutional Reallocation to Multifamily a Mistake?
In the wake of the pandemic, investors aggressively shifted capital from office to multifamily. Was this a historic blunder?
How Offshoring Can Transform Real Estate Math
A first-person account of how one operator used overseas teams to scale faster, lower costs, and compete at the institutional level
Deep Dive: Area 2 Farms
A new model of urban agriculture aims to be the highest and best use for your parking lot.
The GP Investment Landscape
Which deal types are getting funded, which LP relationships are holding, and what real estate GP capital markets actually look like right now.
Deep Dive: Investing in Micro-Multifamily with the Groma Real Estate Trust
Exploring micro-multifamily investing with Groma in this week's Buy Box
Deep Dive: Secured Outdoor Storage Yards with CA South
Don’t miss Thesis Driven’s Buy Box deep dive on CA South next Wednesday, October 8th. Register here (for
The Opportunity in Bankrupt Colleges
US colleges and universities – or at least the bottom half of them – are in for a rough decade. Already facing
Deep Dive: Drake Real Estate Partners
Drake targets $5-20M equity in industrial outdoor storage and manufactured housing. The model, the returns, and why the overlooked niches keep delivering.