Over the past year, we’ve been experimenting heavily with (and successfully using) AI coding tools to push the boundaries of what’s possible in commercial real estate. We’ve used v0 to quickly scope frontend designs, and we’ve spun up various web apps using tools like Replit, Bolt.new, Lovable, and Cursor to support everything from content creation […]
I’m sitting in warm Miami, looking out over Biscayne Bay. Super yachts glide past fishing boats. A soft drizzle is settling over the water, and still the steady stream of vessels continues. The sun most certainly will be back out soon and these low clouds will be long gone. The scene is unnervingly… peaceful. This […]
The housing problem is not a mystery. It is a math problem. Not enough homes. Not enough skilled labor to build them. Not enough affordable construction materials to make deals pencil. And yet, very few people are attacking the root of the problem. In this episode of the Multipliers podcast, we’re joined by Aleks Gampel, […]
I’ve spent a fair amount of my career analyzing privately-owned student housing investments. Nevertheless, I’ve yet to share a purpose-built, institutional-quality student housing acquisition model. So, I thought I’d take some time and build a model for this very purpose. To do this, I took my Value-Add Apartment Acquisition model, which has been used by […]
Some people compound. Others stall. Same hours. Same markets. Same access to information. Very different outcomes. For years, I’ve been quietly fascinated by that gap. At A.CRE, we’ve spent more than a decade helping people build technical skills that help them grow their career in CRE. To that end, over the years, we’ve built the […]
Most people in commercial real estate still think Excel macros are for “the IT guy down the hall.” You underwrite, you manage rent rolls, you crank out lender packages in Excel all day… but the moment someone says “VBA,” you are out. That used to make sense. Writing macros meant learning a programming language on […]
On a recent live follow-up workshop, we took the Multiplier Framework out of “high level theory” and applied it to the most requested target in commercial real estate: Underwriting, the number one task CRE professionals said they want to automate. The goal was simple. Show exactly how AI overlaps cleanly with your existing underwriting workflow, […]
On January 15, over 700 commercial real estate professionals joined me live (nearly 1,400 registered) to learn a simple idea: Any CRE professional, regardless of technical skill or AI knowledge, can multiply their output. Not by working longer hours. Not by hiring a bigger team. But by taking a disciplined, systematic approach to the work […]
AI is finally good enough that you can now leverage it to realistically multiply your output in CRE. The AI Multiplier Framework is our method for doing just that. It gives you a structured way to find, rank, and execute automation opportunities so you can actually hit a meaningful multiplier in 12 months. This post […]
If you work in acquisitions, asset management, brokerage, development, portfolio management, or valuation, you probably feel the tension already. On one hand, today’s AI tools for real estate can draft emails, summarize leases, and pull market stats with ease. On the other hand, you would not trust them to run a full underwriting, manage a […]
Today, we’re thrilled to share with the A.CRE community a new timesaving (and free) Excel tool: the ‘Excel 4 CRE’ Add-in! Over the past few years, we at A.CRE (together with various AI coding tools) have been developing and sharing this Excel add-in. The goal? To make real estate financial modeling faster and more efficient […]
Using keyboard shortcuts is essential to improving the speed and efficiency at which you model real estate in Excel. One thing you’ll learn early in your CRE career, the more proficient you become in using your keyboard without a mouse to navigate around Excel, the more valuable you’ll be as a real estate financial analyst. […]
As part of my work at CRE Agents, I recently built a pretty cool demographics tool that I’d like to a) give you access to and b) provide the backstory behind. It started with a skill created at CRE Agents for an acquisitions AI coworker called Deep Location Analysis. This AI-powered process uses vision models […]
When I first published this guide in early 2023, ChatGPT felt like a novelty. It was impressive, experimental, and even a little unnerving. But for most in CRE, it was still just a toy. Fast forward two and a half years, and that’s no longer the case. Today, AI is embedded in the way serious […]
At A.CRE, we’re always on the lookout for tools that can streamline our workflow and make our jobs a little easier. As the AI space evolves, OpenAI has rolled out two features that we’ve been putting to work in our day-to-day operations: ChatGPT Projects and Custom GPTs. These two features have unlocked new ways for […]