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Girish Walvekar
Vice President, MSCI Research
Girish Walvekar works on the index-management research team, responsible for managing and maintaining methodologies for real-asset indexes. He is also a lead author of MSCI’s research report on private-real-estate valuation and sales prices. Girish has experience across financial accounting, credit ratings and real estate, and previously worked for CRISIL, a subsidiary of S&P Global, as well as for Tata Consultancy Services. He holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce from the University of Mumbai.
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Articles by Girish Walvekar
Private Real Estate Valuation and Sale Price Comparison 2022
Research Report | Aug 2, 2023 | Girish Walvekar, Vinay KakkaInvestment performance is measured using transaction prices in most asset classes. But real estate is illiquid and heterogeneous, so valuations and sales prices can differ. Our annual report compares valuations and sale prices in global real estate.
Private Real Estate: Valuations and Sale Price Comparison Report 2019 Results
Research Report | Jun 28, 2019 | Vinay Kakka, Girish WalvekarFor mainstream financial asset classes, investment performance measurement is based on transaction prices. In contrast, direct real estate is well known for being an illiquid and heterogeneous asset class, making the establishment of purely price-based indexes problematic. In order to overcome these obstacles, MSCI’s private real estate indexes are constructed on the basis of professionally sourced open market valuations, i.e., price estimates based on a set of market process assumptions...
Private Real Estate: Valuations and Sale Price Comparison Report 2017 results
Research Report | Jul 18, 2018 | G Hariharan, Girish WalvekarFor mainstream financial asset classes, investment performance measurement is based on transaction prices. In contrast, direct real estate is well known for being an illiquid and heterogeneous asset class, making the establishment of purely price-based indexes problematic. In order to overcome these obstacles, MSCI’s private real estate indexes are constructed on the basis of professionally sourced open market valuations, i.e., price estimates based on a set of market process assumptions...