AI is impacting real estate investment, shaping valuations, informing underwriting, and influencing allocation decisions. The question isn't whether to use it. It's whether you understand what it's actually doing and if you are using it effectively.

The risk isn't that AI replaces your judgement. It's that AI distorts your judgement, producing outputs that look rigorous while embedding assumptions no one examined or confidence that isn't warranted. When that informs a major decision, an acquisition, a refinancing, a covenant call, or a portfolio reallocation, the consequences are real.

That concern is why I'm completing a PhD in AI. My research focuses on how organisations can use AI responsibly in industry, when expertise and trust are non-negotiable, and what changes when algorithms start influencing high-stakes judgement.

I'm an AI researcher with twenty years' experience in real estate. I've worked in Big 4 firms and international consultancies and now run an independent practice. I hold an MBA from Ulster Business School, a postgraduate Diploma in Financial Strategy (with distinction) from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and an MSc in Computer Science and Data Analytics (with merit) from the University of York. I'm also a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

I work with fund managers, investment committees, lenders, developers and the professional advisors who support them. My interest is the practical boundary between human expertise and machine outputs: what models can and can't justify, what they quietly assume, and how institutions preserve accountability when decisions lean on systems that don't explain themselves.

If AI is shaping how you invest or lend in real estate, I'd welcome a conversation.