Customer story — Better Homes
How Better Homes gets from market data to an initial view on an asset in minutes
Better Homes Capital Markets uses Buildable to bring deal documents, market data, comparable evidence and analysis together — helping the team assess residential and commercial block opportunities faster and with less manual work.
Hours → minutes
Analysis that previously required hours of manual work can now come back in minutes.
Harry House
Investment Consultant, Better Homes Capital Markets
About Better Homes Capital Markets
Founded in 1986, Better Homes is one of the UAE's longest-established real estate businesses, with nearly 500 people across the UAE and more than 250,000 customers and families served over its four decades in the market.
Its Capital Markets team works on investment opportunities across the residential and commercial markets.
That requires the team to quickly understand an asset, bring together information from different sources, identify the most relevant comparable evidence and form a view on pricing and potential upside.
Buildable is used as part of that process on live block-asset opportunities, helping the team get from the underlying information to an initial view much faster.
“Finding comparables for residential and commercial blocks — it can match buildings based on age, amenities and branding, helping us determine the price point for a block asset.”
Harry House
Investment Consultant, Better Homes Capital Markets
The challenge: too much time spent assembling the analysis
Before Buildable, analysing an opportunity meant working across several different sources.
The Better Homes team would retrieve transaction data from Property Monitor, review listing evidence from Property Finder and Bayut, transfer the information into spreadsheets and then organise it into a presentable analysis.
The work itself was valuable. The problem was the amount of time required simply to get the information into a usable form.
“Usually, this would take hours or days — retrieving transactions from Property Monitor, listing prices from Property Finder and Bayut, then converting everything into a spreadsheet and putting the data into a presentable format.”
Harry House
Investment Consultant, Better Homes Capital Markets
This can slow down the point at which an investment professional can actually start applying judgement to the opportunity.
By reducing that preparation work, Buildable gives the team a faster route to responding to opportunities, testing an initial view and spending more time on the higher-value analysis around the deal.
Bringing the whole deal into one place
Buildable Deals gives the team a workspace for the opportunity itself.
Rent rolls and other deal documents can be uploaded and analysed alongside property information, comparable transactions and wider market evidence.
Buildable's technology structures the information and allows the team to interrogate the deal using AI, rather than treating every document or question as an isolated task.
For the Better Homes team, this means less switching between documents, spreadsheets, market platforms and separate tools while trying to build a coherent view of an asset.
“The deal feature has helped to get all the information together and find comparables to suit.”
Harry House
Investment Consultant, Better Homes Capital Markets
Why not just use ChatGPT or Claude?
General-purpose AI tools can be powerful for summarising a document or answering an individual question.
A real estate deal requires more context.
The AI needs to understand the documents, the asset, comparable properties, transactions, market evidence and the real estate workflow around the question being asked.
Buildable combines these elements in one environment.
Its AI has been developed specifically around real estate use cases, with fine-tuned models working alongside structured deal information, market data and purpose-built workflows.
The result is not simply an AI-generated response. It is analysis grounded in the context of the actual real estate opportunity.
That makes Buildable particularly useful for teams that want the benefits of the latest AI models without having to recreate the context of a deal from scratch every time they ask a question.
Buildable Comparable Intelligence: finding the right evidence, not just the nearest transaction
A block asset cannot always be valued by looking at the closest transactions.
Buildable's proprietary Comparable Intelligence capability is designed to identify the evidence most relevant to the asset being analysed.
Its Comparable Finder can assess buildings against characteristics including age, amenities and branding, alongside the surrounding transaction and market evidence.
This gives the team a more sophisticated starting point than simply searching by geography or manually working through transaction lists.
For Better Homes, it helps the team identify comparable residential and commercial buildings that better reflect the positioning of the actual asset.
The result is a more focused set of evidence from which the team can form its own professional view on pricing.
“It can match buildings based on age, amenities and branding, helping us to make an analysis to determine the price point for a block asset.”
Harry House
Investment Consultant, Better Homes Capital Markets
Understanding today's value — and where value could go
Buildable is also used when the team wants to understand not only what an asset is worth in the current market, but where the opportunity for additional value might sit.
Better Homes has used the platform to compare current market pricing with the price point an asset could potentially achieve following CAPEX investment or a branding partnership.
That gives the team a way to combine the current market evidence with a view on the potential future positioning of the asset.
“Buildable helped us to value buildings, showing the difference in current market price and the price point it could reach from CAPEX or branding partnerships.”
Harry House
Investment Consultant, Better Homes Capital Markets
From hours of manual work to minutes
The most immediate impact for Better Homes has been speed.
Work that previously involved several hours of retrieving, collating and organising information can now produce an initial result in minutes.
The team can then spend its time reviewing the evidence, applying its own market judgement and deciding what the information means for the opportunity.
Getting to that point faster also means the team can respond to opportunities more quickly and spend less of its time on manual data preparation.
“What would usually take a few hours now comes back in minutes.”
Harry House
Investment Consultant, Better Homes Capital Markets
A platform that improves with the team
For Better Homes, the value is not only in the individual features.
The team also highlighted Buildable's ease of use and the speed with which feedback is acted on as the platform continues to develop.
For a team using the product on active opportunities, that ability to provide feedback and see the platform improve around real workflows has become an important part of the relationship.
“The ease of use and the response rate from Zakee on any issues received. Any problems we have had have been fixed in a very timely manner.”
Harry House
Investment Consultant, Better Homes Capital Markets
Before Buildable / With Buildable
The Better Homes workflow moved from assembling analysis across market platforms and spreadsheets to reviewing a structured initial view on the asset.
Before Buildable
- 1
Property Monitor
Retrieve transaction data
- 2
Property Finder + Bayut
Review listing evidence
- 3
Deal documents
Extract relevant asset information
- 4
Spreadsheets
Combine and analyse the information
- 5
Manual formatting
Create something usable for the opportunity
Hours — sometimes days
With Buildable
- 1
Upload the deal
Bring the opportunity and its documents into one workspace
- 2
Structured analysis
Buildable structures and analyses the information
- 3
Comparable Intelligence
Identifies relevant real estate comparables and market evidence
- 4
Initial view
Form an initial view on pricing and potential upside
- 5
Review and refine
Apply professional judgement to the opportunity
Minutes
Would Better Homes recommend Buildable?
“I would highly recommend it and mention the fact that Buildable is constantly getting better.”
Harry House
Investment Consultant, Better Homes Capital Markets
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