Early in my career, as a new associate working for a large institutional real estate investor, I took a trip to Denver with a director on my team and our managing director. Both were named Mike. Both are people I highly respected. Our managing director, Mike, had been with the firm over 30 years. He […]
A question came up recently in the A.CRE Accelerator’s real estate waterfall modeling course regarding how to model GP Catch Up (i.e. Sponsor Catch Up) and LP Clawback provisions. I put together a quick video tutorial in response to that question, and in doing so I realized I had never shared to A.CRE a real […]
Over the years, we’ve shared eight development-focused real estate financial models and numerous development-specific tools to the A.CRE Library of Excel Models. Nevertheless, there’s been a hole in the development offerings in our library. The library has been missing a model to analyze general land development scenarios, such as master-planned residential and commercial developer opportunities […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s been the go-to line ever since ChatGPT exploded onto the scene in 2022 and AI became a talking point in every office: “AI won’t take your job, but someone using AI will.” I’ve said that – or some variation of that – myself in dozens of conversations with CRE friends, peers, and clients. And […]
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 […]
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 […]