Product Overview: MSCI Real Capital Analytics (RCA)
MSCI Real Capital Analytics (RCA) is a comprehensive and industry-leading platform designed to provide universal data and analytics solutions for global commercial real estate investing and transactions. Here’s a detailed look at what the product does and its key features and functionality.
What RCA Does
RCA is a robust tool that empowers investors, owners, buyers, sellers, developers, and lenders with game-changing data to make informed decisions in the commercial real estate market. It offers a vast array of data and analytics to uncover new investment opportunities, assess market trends, and optimize portfolio performance.
Key Features and Functionality
Modules
- Transactions: This module allows users to view all deals or research specific properties. It includes a searchable database with multiple criteria and filters, enabling users to view, map, export, and aggregate results into trend reports.
- Investors: This module includes a database of all investors, such as owners, buyers, sellers, developers, and lenders. Users can sort by investment and property type, generate and export lists and rankings, and view detailed profiles summarizing deals, properties, and partners. It also provides CMBS data on loans, properties, and borrowers.
- Trends: Here, users can access monthly and quarterly publications, market insights, and webinars. The module allows for the comparison and graphing of time series data on volumes, pricing, yields, spreads, and capital flows across countries, regions, markets, and submarkets.
- Registered Properties: This module enables users to look up any commercial asset in the United States and the United Kingdom. It includes niche property types, untraded and off-market assets, and those below the traditional $2.5 million floor. Users can visualize lot borders, building use classes, and ownership information across all commercial properties.
Analytics and Insights
- Climate Value-at-Risk Due Diligence: Users can run climate risk assessments on any property in the database to understand potential climate-related costs and support Net Zero goals.
- Capital Liquidity Scores®: This feature helps property investors, financiers, and advisors understand market liquidity for better risk management and portfolio allocation.
- RCA CPPI™: The RCA Commercial Property Price Index measures the actual price experience of property investors based on exclusive transaction data, providing a more accurate view of market trends.
- RCA Hedonic Series: This cap rate and pricing time series is designed to offer more accuracy around trends, even with small data samples and heterogeneous assets.
Delivery and Accessibility
- Desktop: The desktop platform provides easy navigation through the full suite of data, analytics, and insights. Data can be delivered in bulk via Excel add-in or virtual warehouses in real time.
- Mobile: The RCAnywhere Mobile App offers access to transactions, investor profiles, and insights on the go.
- Email Alerts: Users receive email notifications for any changes on saved searches, ensuring they stay updated on market developments.
- API and Data Integration: Data can also be accessed via APIs, Snowflake, and integration with other platforms, enhancing flexibility and usability.
Additional Capabilities
- Verified Data: Each transaction and detail is verified and quality-assured by a team of in-house research analysts, ensuring the reliability of the data.
- Global Coverage: RCA covers over $40 trillion in commercial real estate transactions, tied to more than 200,000 investor and lender profiles, spanning diverse property types and global markets.
By leveraging these features and functionalities, MSCI Real Capital Analytics provides a powerful tool for real estate professionals to make data-driven decisions, identify new opportunities, and manage their portfolios effectively.