Is There a Difference Between M&A and Real Estate?

I wanted to gain investing skills. I found one of the things that was a little unsatisfying as a merger banker is you'd work on a transaction and then never know whether your model was at all close to accurate. Great investors are really great at pattern recognition. And real estate, in many ways, especially commercial real estate, kind of parallels that thing. These were all people who were interested in participating in a people business ultimately.