Tangent: Conversations with Real Estate & Tech Innovators

Jeffrey Havsy is the commercial real estate industry practice lead at Moody's Analytics, where he focuses on combining property fundamentals with economic, credit, climate, and alternative data to help lenders, investors, and operators make better decisions. He has spent his career at the intersection of economics and real estate, including roles at NCREIF and CBRE. Moody's Analytics covers more than 600 million public and private entities worldwide and generated over $7 billion in revenue in 2025. Jeffrey is based in Needham, Massachusetts.

(02:46) From data scarcity to data curation
(03:39) What lenders and investors miss beyond property fundamentals
(05:34) Tenant credit, crime data, and truck traffic as signals
(09:16) Moody's commercial location score explained
(12:52) Cap rates: overrated, underrated, or misused
(15:39) Moody's MCP launch and what it means for CRE decisions
(18:32) Why Moody's stays AI platform-agnostic
(20:44) Where the human stays in the loop
(23:33) Physical risk vs. ESG
(26:11) The hidden risks in industrial real estate
(30:06) How robotics changes what a warehouse is worth
(31:09) The one macro data point CRE ignores: productivity
(33:10) Collaboration superpower: Abraham Lincoln

🏙️ Learn more:
-Visit Moody's Analytics / Moody's CRE
-Jeffrey Havsy on LinkedIn

Creators and Guests

Host
Edward Cohen
Host & Executive Producer at Tangent
Guest
Jeffrey Havsy

What is Tangent: Conversations with Real Estate & Tech Innovators?

A podcast community for real estate and tech leaders, investors, operators and innovators.

A new era is upon us. Tangent💚Proptech unites Proptech founders💡, Real Estate investors and operators🏢, Venture Capital investors, urban leaders🏙 and passionate creators🌎 who are improving our communities and cities. Join us to learn how we can solve present day challenges with innovative technology and greater collaboration.

Join VC investor Zach Aarons and Proptech entrepreneur Edward Cohen, to learn about housing innovation, the future of work and climate tech. We examine these themes through interviews and conversations with Proptech CEO's, real estate owners and operators, and venture investors, and how we can leverage tech and collaboration to help solve the housing crisis, figure out the future of work and how to decarbonize the built environment.

If you would like to get your company’s or organization’s mission featured on Tangent, email us at community@tangentproptech.com.

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