Careless People, Careless AI
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, and l...
Recent Posts
Taking the Long View: Interview in Land Lines Magazine
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s Land Lines magazine published an interview with me this month. Jon Gorey asked me about some of the more counterintuit...
Call for Papers: Real Estate Finance and Investment Symposium 2026
One of the highlights of my year — for the tenth year running — is the Real Estate Finance and Investment Symposium that the Cambridge Real Estate Research C...
I, not We: Claiming authorship
One pitfall of using Claude Code and other AI tools is that they make me lazy. The output is slick, useful, and smoothly integrated. The machines tries to gi...
Good Catch! Quality control when working with AI
Over the last few months, I have been working intensively with Claude Code, ChatGPT, and other AI tools. It has been a wild learning experience, and at times...
Using AI for ideas, writing?
I have been looking at the ProudlyHuman de minimis standard and was somewhat surprised that the otherwise purist pro-human stance allows for using AI “to sea...
Can AI be a PI? Mapping real estate research and testing AI idea generation
Under active development — findings and figures may change.
Talk: AI in the research process
AI is changing how research gets done. But like weight loss drugs, it’s hard to tell from the outside whether the results come from the jab or the gym.
Updating plausibility
Spoiler alert. A Friday afternoon rant.
An Affordability Revolution?
New version of Working paper out: 500 years of rents, wages and housing standards show how housing became cheaper yet less affordable for many. Overall, hous...
AI in higher education: Last Samurai vs Brain Rot
Today, we had a discussion about how teaching needs to evolve in these AI enabled time. As researchers and educators we are painfully aware of two AI-related...
Book in print: ‘Commercial Real Estate Analysis for Investment, Finance, and Development’
The fourth Edition of the Geltner et al. CRE textbook is finally in production. And the ‘al.’ now includes (Lindenth)al…
New Working Paper: Missing Data in Real Estate
Missing data are pervasive in commercial real estate research, yet common practice remains to discard incomplete observations or fill gaps with crude imputat...
David Geltner on “Are We Losing Our Democracy?”
I have learnt a lot from David Geltner over the last 20 years.
Upside down?
This made me smile.
Old work: Demografische Krimp en Woningsprijzen
Piet Eichholtz and I wrote this short piece on the impact of changing demographics on house prices many years back. Some people still ask me for a copy, so I...
On Rejections
It happens so often, stings every time, and should not slow you down…
Ultra-processed Data
Maybe, someone has used this term before. If not, I would like to suggest “ultra-processed data.”
CALL FOR PAPERS: Real Estate Finance and Investment Symposium
This year back in Gainesville, Florida, Oct 9-11. Apply before June 1st.
Bullshit Jobs and Bullshit Offices
David Graeber’s ‘On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant’ made a compelling argument: many modern jobs exist for no real reason. Bureaucratic middlem...