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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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An AI Skill for the A.CRE Commercial Mortgage Loan Analysis 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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Commercial Mortgage Loan Analysis Model (Updated June 2026)

Over the years, I've received various requests to augment our library of real estate Excel models to include a model for underwriting and analyzing commercial mortgage loans. Specifically, people have asked for a tool to calculate the loan amount…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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An AI Skill for the Real Estate Asset Management Model

We'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…
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Real Estate Asset Management Model (Updated May 2026)

Many of you have run into this scenario: you build out a detailed acquisitions model at purchase. Everything looks great—market rents, lease-up timing, exit cap, all in line. The acquisitions team is convinced this is going to be a home run.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Ground Lease Valuation Model (Updated May 2026)

The topic of ground leases has come up several times in the past few weeks. Numerous A.CRE readers have emailed to ask for a purpose-built Ground Lease Valuation Model. And I'm in the process of creating an Advanced Concepts Module for our real…