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Real Estate Financial Modeling Accelerator (Updated September 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…
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Type I vs. Type II Errors in Commercial Real Estate: A Lesson in Risk I Learned Early in My Career

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…
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Real Estate Equity Waterfall Model with Catch Up and Clawback (Updated Nov 2026)

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,…
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An AI Skill for the A.CRE 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…
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Land Development Model – Multi-Scenario (Updated Nov 2026)

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.…
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Prompt Injection: How Hidden Text in an OM Can Fool Your AI

In August, a Connecticut judge took away a litigant's e-filing privileges for leaving secret notes for robots in his court documents. Specifically, 3-point white text telling any AI that read his filings to side with his arguments (Dechert).…
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A.CRE Jobs of the Week (Updated 11.9.2026)

We regularly post commercial real estate job openings to our A.CRE Job site section of Adventures in CRE. These jobs are largely openings at top commercial real estate companies, although some hiring professionals at smaller CRE firms also post…
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Ask Me Anything with A.CRE (Next Host – James Nelson)

James Nelson is back for another A.CRE Ask Me Anything, and if you missed the last one, this is your chance to make up for it. James is a Principal at Avison Young, where he leads the firm's U.S. Investment Sales practice in New York City.…
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Lo que Dejó la Crisis: Crisis Financiera del 2008, Parte 7

Parte 7 de mi serie recorriendo la crisis financiera de 2008 desde la óptica de los bienes raíces, y la entrega en la que la historia vuelve a los bienes raíces comerciales. Si recién te sumas, en la Parte 1 miré por qué se le tuvo tanta…
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Vibe Coding Security: A Simple Checklist for CRE Professionals

On October 21, PHP shipped emergency patches for two bugs nicknamed PHP2Shell. One request, no login, and an attacker could take over the server. The attack ran before a single line of the site's own code did. Perfect code wouldn't have saved…
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Nuevo Contenido en Español (Actualizado Noviembre 2026)

Ver y leer nuevo contenido en español. Este contenido ha sido creado por el equipo A.CRE para profesionales en la inversion inmobiliaria. Tutoriales, modelos financieros, educación, y mucho más.
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An AI Skill for the A.CRE Apartment 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…
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A.CRE Apartment Development Model (Updated Nov 2026)

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…
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What the Crisis Left Behind: 2008 Crisis, Part 7

Part 7 of my series working through the 2008 financial crisis from a real estate perspective, and the part where the story comes back to commercial real estate. If you're new to the series, in Part 1 I looked at why the mortgage was trusted,…
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The Road To A Stabilized NOI – Underwriting Real Estate Concessions (Updated Nov 2026)

The incentives offered to the tenants of a real estate property constitute another of the adjustments that real estate professionals must underwrite to achieve a stabilized NOI, but beyond the adjustment, the concessions represent the cost of…
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List of A.CRE Accelerator Graduates (Updated Nov 2026)

This certifies that the following individuals have successfully completed the 17-course, A.CRE real estate financial modeling Accelerator. Having shown a proficiency in all aspects of real estate financial modeling and having demonstrated an…