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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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Episode 10 of Multipliers: Modeling Like a Deal Seasoned Pro in the Era of AI

For years, AI real estate financial modeling was a promise that kept arriving too early. Every new model, every new tool, produced more errors than it saved time. You would spend longer validating the output than you would have spent building…
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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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The AI.Edge Q2 2026 Build Competition Is Live!

The AI.Edge Q2 2026 Build Competition is officially open, and we want to see what you build. Running from May 14th through June 30th, this quarter's competition continues what's quickly become one of the most exciting things happening in CRE:…
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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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Episode 9 of Multipliers: The Traffic Engine Nobody’s Building

Most CRE operators spend a fixed percentage of every reservation paying a third-party platform to exist. They know it is happening. They accept it as the cost of doing business. What very few of them have asked is: what would it take to build…
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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…
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Episode 8 of Multipliers: The Multipliers Nobody Talks About

Most productivity content is about systems. The right morning routine, the right tool stack, the right framework for prioritizing your tasks. That stuff is fine. It is also the easy part. The harder part, and the part that actually separates…
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Zapier vs. Make vs. n8n: Which Automation Platform Should CRE Teams Use With AI?

Choosing the right automation tools for CRE teams used to be a straightforward question. Pick the easiest platform, connect your apps, save time. That framing made sense a couple of years ago. It does not quite fit anymore. MCP changed…