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Entries by Spencer Burton
An AI Skill for the A.CRE Residential Land Development Model
I’ve been working on a project to make our library of Excel models AI-ready. The idea is straightforward, pair every A.CRE Excel model with an AI Skill, a packaged set of instructions and reference files that teaches an AI assistant how to operate that specific model on your behalf. The Residential Land Development Model is […]
Residential Land Development Pro Forma (Updated June 2026)
As many of you know, I started my career in residential land development first as a broker and later as a principal. During that time, I built my fair share of residential land development Excel pro formas, modeling returns and forecasting cash flows for my clients and investor partners. I’ve since transitioned into the institutional […]
Financial Modeling in the Era of AI – Watch Me Build
In a recent post, I made the case that AI and financial modeling follow the same logic as long division and calculators. Learn the mechanics first. Once you’ve got them, the tool multiplies your output. The calculator only helps if you understand what it’s computing. That post was the argument. This one is the demo. […]
A practical guide to Claude Skills on desktop and web
If you use Claude often, Claude Skills are how you teach it to work the way you do, without repeating yourself every time. Instead of pasting long instructions in every new chat, you write down your process once as a reusable Skill, save it, and then call that behavior with a short, natural request whenever […]
AI Tools for Commercial Real Estate (Summer 2026 Edition)
If you haven’t noticed, we’ve been exploring use cases, training, and tools related to AI in commercial real estate a lot lately! The reason is that Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize the commercial real estate industry by transforming the way acquisitions, development, management, advisory, and marketing teams in the industry operate. AI tools […]
A.CRE Value-Add Apartment Acquisition Model (Updated May 2026)
We’ve shared a handful of apartment models over the years. Several of those are capable of analyzing apartment acquisitions but none was built for the express purpose of modeling value-add apartment deals. As a result, each has its limitations in value-add scenarios. So today, I’m excited to share a new apartment model; this one built […]
Financial Modeling in the Era of AI
In Mrs. Jackson’s fourth grade class, and I’m guessing each of you had your own Mrs. Jackson, I learned to do long division by hand. Three-digit numbers, four-digit numbers, the whole bit. Pencil, paper, and that little ladder of subtraction and bring-downs that took forever and felt, even as a nine-year-old, like the most inefficient […]
Real Estate Financial Modeling Accelerator (Updated May 2026)
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 […]
Industrial Real Estate Development Model (Updated May 2026)
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 […]
All-in-One (Ai1) Model for Underwriting Development and Acquisitions (Updated May 2026)
As many of you recall, in 2015 I set out to build an Excel alternative to the widely-used (and now discontinued) ARGUS DCF. With career moves and a lot of other A.CRE-related side projects, this undertaking has been slow going. Alas, in 2016 I released the first beta-version of the model – my All-in-One (Ai1) […]
An AI Skill for Our (Original) Apartment Acquisition Model
I’ve been working on a project to make our library of Excel models AI-ready. The idea is straightforward — pair every A.CRE Excel model with an AI Skill, a packaged set of instructions and reference files that teaches an AI assistant how to operate that specific model on your behalf. The Apartment Acquisition Model is […]
Multifamily (Apartment) Acquisition Model (Updated May 2026)
Our library of real estate Excel models has a variety of decent apartment models, including our All-in-One model and our Apartment Development Model – both robust models in their own right. However, if you’re looking for a straight multifamily (apartment) acquisition model, and don’t want all of the unnecessary components of the All-in-One (ie. office, […]
An AI Skill for the A.CRE Ground Lease Valuation Model
I’ve been working on a project to make our library of Excel models AI-ready. The idea is straightforward – 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. The […]