Multi-tenant industrial covers a lot of ground. On one end is an older infill business park with 20 small suites leased to contractors and local distributors. On the other is a 400,000 SF cross-dock distribution building split between two or three regional or national tenants. Both take more work to underwrite than a single-tenant box. […]
We’re working through a project to make our library of Excel models AI-ready. The idea is to pair every A.CRE Excel model with an AI Skill for CRE: a packaged set of instructions and reference files that teaches an AI assistant how to operate that specific real estate model on your behalf. This post introduces […]
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The topic of analyzing commercial real estate leases from the perspective of the landlord and/or tenant has come up several times over the years. And while I generally respond to requests for new models or tools at A.CRE, I’ve been hesitant to build this particular tool. The reason is that my experience is heavily landlord […]
Most commercial real estate firms are already using AI but the problem is that very few are using it systematically. Here’s how we it often goes. Someone on the acquisitions team has figured out how to use Claude to summarize offering memoranda. An analyst is using ChatGPT to help with Excel. Someone in asset management […]
If you’re comparing real estate financial modeling courses online, four programs come up again and again: the A.CRE Real Estate Financial Modeling Accelerator, Break Into CRE, REFM’s REFAI certification, and Wall Street Prep’s Real Estate Financial Modeling course. They differ a lot on price, how long you keep access, how deep they go, and what […]
We’ve spent the last few years testing, teaching, and building with AI in commercial real estate, and this post is where we keep track of the tools that matter. It started as a list. This Fall 2026 edition is organized differently, because the way CRE professionals get real work out of AI has changed. The […]
For several years now, our library of real estate models has been lacking a robust ground-up apartment development model. Sure, our All-in-One (Ai1) model has the capability to model multifamily development deals, but it’s more a generalist tool than a specialized one. As a result, I’ve found it wanting when used to model developments. So a few […]
Before launching the Accelerator program, Michael and I received countless emails requesting a more structured, step-by-step real estate financial modeling training program. Over the years, we’ve covered hundreds of real estate modeling topics in our blog, published hours of video, and shared 70+ real estate Excel models in our Library. Nonetheless, no matter how many posts […]
If you’re shopping for AI courses for commercial real estate, you have more choices today than you did a year ago. As of October 29, 2026, the options fall into three groups: university executive education (Harvard GSD, Marquette, Columbia), independent creators who sell cohorts and paid communities (AI for CRE Collective, CRE AI Studio, CRE […]
A decade ago, I recorded myself completing a real estate technical interview modeling exercise, start to finish, so our readers could watch over my shoulder and pick up on my process. That video, and the companion blog post, is still one of the most useful things we’ve published for anyone prepping for a real estate […]
For our 17th case study, we turn to a merchant industrial development in the Lebanon Valley, one of the mid-Atlantic’s most active distribution corridors. This Windsor Crossing case study places you in the role of Alex Morgan, an investment analyst in the Northeast office of Meridian Industrial Partners (“Meridian”), a fictional national developer of warehouse […]
Microsoft Excel is the primary tool used by real estate financial modeling professionals. Even while numerous non-Excel alternatives have attempted to de-throne Excel, the 35+ year-old software has shown to be surprisingly resilient to competition. And thus, if you intend to work in real estate you must be proficient in Excel. So what does it […]
Allow me to share my Industrial Development Model in Excel. Over the past few years, I’ve been working to add more specialty real estate models to our library. While our All-in-One model certainly has its place, oftentimes really digging into the underwriting of a deal takes a hyper-focused tool. This model has spawned sister Office […]
For the past few years, we’ve spent a ton of time testing dozens of AI models. Starting at gpt-3 in 2022, to most recently Grok 4.6. From closed source models like Anthropic’s Opus to open weight models like Kimi or Nemotron. As part of that testing, we give each model a series of consistent tasks, […]