Oct 1, 2020
The Propcast
Season 2, Episode 6
Title: AI & Portfolio Management with Richard
Belgrave and Kevin Mofid
Summary: In this episode we talk to Richard
Belgrave of MRI Leverton AI and Kevin Mofid, of Savills about how
artificial intelligence is transforming portfolio management and
delivering great insights for corporate occupiers
The Propcast by Louisa Dickins, Co-Founder of LMRE the leading
Global PropTech recruiter brought to you in partnership with UK
PropTech Association, The UK PropTech Association is a membership
organisation to drive the digital transformation of the property
industry.
This show will focus on connecting the PropTechs, real estate
funds and VC’s globally…and get everyone talking about innovation
of the build to rent environment.
About Our Host
Louisa Dickins
Louisa started her career in property working at a well-known
estate agency in London. Realising her people skills, she moved
over to Lloyd May to pursue a career in recruitment. She now is a
Director at LMRE, who are a specialist recruitment firm driven by
PropTech and recruitment professionals, and Louisa oversees their 5
core areas. Louisa co-founded LMRE and provides a constructive
recruitment platform to the new disruptors in real estate. Louisa
is also on the board of Directors at UK PropTech Association
(UKPA).
About LMRE
LMRE believe there is a better way to recruit. LMRE focus on a
more comprehensive, client led focus delivering exceptional talent
to the right place at the right time. They are passionate about the
industry and passionate about people's careers. LMRE spend time
with each client to become and an extension of the business, and
their transparency and core values help them grow with the sector.
LMRE simplify recruitment and innovate with our clients and evolve
the people driven, PropTech community.
About Our Guests
Richard Belgrave
Rich is a Vice President at Leverton, an MRI Software Company.
He helped the global expansion of Leverton prior to acquisition and
served in various capacities (the latest being Chief Revenue
Officer) since joining the company in May, 2016. Richard started
his career in corporate finance, where he worked on a wide range of
strategic projects and performed analysis for FTSE350 clients. His
strong interest in technology later drove him to join Leverton, now
MRI software. MRI Software is the leading provider of innovative
real estate software applications and hosted solutions. MRI’s
comprehensive and flexible technology platform, coupled with an
open and connected ecosystem meets a unique need for real estate
businesses, from property level management and accounting. to
investment modelling and analytics of the global commercial and
residential markets.
Kevin Mofid
Kevin is a Director in the Savills Research team and heads up
research capability into Industrial & Logistics markets
co-ordinating market data collection across the UK and producing
Research reports covering the sector. Previously, at BNP Paribas
Real Estate, Kevin headed up research into Central London Office
markets and Industrial & Logistics markets producing a number of
landmark reports including The Real Estate Implications of waste
management and recycling, The Warehouse of the Future and the Real
Estate implications of the proposed IAS 17 lease accounting
changes.
Kevin is a key market commentator and regularly presents at
industry events appearing at The ICE Energy From Waste Conference,
The Estates Gazette European Distribution Summit, the Retail Week
Supply Chain Summit and other events for the IPF, IPD and the CPD
Foundation. Kevin is a member of the Society of Property
Researchers, the Industrial Agents Society, the IPF and in 2013 was
the youngest ever Chairman of the Society of Property
Researchers.
Resources
Insights from this Episode
- Our technology is geared towards helping our
clients find, analyse, interrogate data buried within both
complicated contracts – Richard
Belgrave
- It's really about helping people make
decisions quicker to adapt as a result of the pandemic –
Richard
Belgrave
- The data that was unstructured before is now
structured. And that as I said before creates efficiencies just in
terms of the way we work internally – Kevin
Mofid
- So, the more data we have in a structured
fashion that will allow us to answer those big questions that are
troubling everyone at the moment – Kevin
Mofid
- I think for decision making, I think for
running your business or staying ahead of the competition, and just
doing what's right by your investors, by your senior stakeholders,
you need data. You need to be able to access it, you need to be
able to trust it. And thematically I think the real estate industry
is making a lot of progress – Richard
Belgrave
- Data will give you some answers, but are you
asking the right questions – Kevin
Mofid
- The models that we deploy to process these
contracts and turn unstructured content into structured data, they
can also be used to help drive really meaningful analysis–
Richard Belgrave
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