chi-Marc_Rutzen (2) Marc Rutzen, cheif executive officer of Chicago-based Enodo

CHICAGO—Almost every market in the US suffers from a lack of workforce housing, and the consequent demand for such units has encouraged many national investors to buy up them up when available. But pinpointing great value-add opportunities can be difficult and require a lot of detailed, granular knowledge of local markets.

Enodo, an automated underwriting platform for multifamily real estate, believes it has the metal detector needed to find these needles in haystacks. The Chicago-based firm recently applied price and cap rate prediction algorithms to its database of 1.7 million assets nationwide to identify the nation's most undervalued multifamily properties.

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Brian J. Rogal

Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.