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. With over $5 billion in closed transactions and more […]
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Most CRE firms have adopted an AI harness like Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot, but very few know what to do next. That’s an accurate description of where the industry is right now. The CEO Spencer spoke with the day before this recording runs a major investment management firm. He has a CTO. He has a […]
Spencer posted about JEV on LinkedIn a few days before this episode and very few people from our industry reacted to it. He understands why. This is boring engineer stuff. The end user of an AI system doesn’t care how the micro-decisions inside that system get made. They care that the output is better, faster, […]
Marcus & Millichap is hosting its 2026 Future Talent Conference, a two-day live virtual event for students and early-career professionals interested in commercial real estate investment sales and brokerage careers. One of our goals at A.CRE is to help the next generation of commercial real estate professionals better understand the career paths available across the […]
More commercial real estate professionals are using AI every day. But using AI and understanding how to engineer an AI output are two very different things. And that distinction is going to matter a lot. We’re moving into a world where the question is no longer simply, “Which AI model is the smartest?” The better […]
The AI.Edge Q3 2026 Build Competition is officially open, and we want to see what you build. Running from September 3rd through September 30th, this quarter’s competition keeps the momentum going from a strong first half of 2026. Q1 and Q2 set the bar high, innovative tools, real CRE problems, and builders who shipped rather […]
Microsoft Excel es la principal herramienta utilizada por los profesionales del modelado financiero inmobiliario. Aunque numerosas alternativas que no son Excel han intentado destronarlo, este programa de más de 35 años de antigüedad ha demostrado ser sorprendentemente sólido frente a la competencia. Por lo tanto, si quieres trabajar en el sector inmobiliario, debes dominar Excel. […]
This episode starts with discussing shoulder injury recovery, takes a detour through the Panama Canal, spends twenty minutes on why you are not typing anymore, and lands on one of the clearest explanations of the AI tech stack the podcast has produced. There is also a coffee enema backstory that earns its place more than […]
Antes de utilizar uno de nuestros modelos financieros inmobiliarios (es decir, plantillas de Excel), o antes de comenzar a crear tu propia herramienta de análisis inmobiliario en Excel, es importante tener en cuenta las mejores prácticas en el modelado financiero inmobiliario. Esta lista combina las prácticas habituales del sector para la elaboración de modelos en […]
There is a TikTok trend Spencer describes in this episode: a video of a crowd of college students, all wearing the same mom jeans and white shirts, each one convinced she is unlike anyone else in the frame. The caption is something like “there is no other girl like me.” The point is not cruel. […]
Most people in commercial real estate are using AI in some form right now. Very few of them understand what they are actually using. That gap matters, because the professionals who understand the structure of the technology make better decisions about where to invest their time, which tools to build on, and what is actually […]
The AI.Edge Q2 2026 Build Competition has wrapped up, and the results are in. This quarter’s submissions reflected a meaningful step forward in sophistication. Builders didn’t just experiment, they shipped production-ready tools that solve problems CRE professionals deal with every single day. Governed underwriting platforms, multi-agent lease monitors, institutional model auditors: Q2 proved this community is […]
The fastest careers in commercial real estate are rarely built on raw talent alone. They are often built through CRE mentorship. They are built on proximity to people who have already been where you are trying to go, who have made the mistakes you are about to make, and who are willing to spend their […]
Every industry has a default way of doing things. A standard buy box. A standard funnel. A standard set of tools that everyone uses because everyone uses them. The people who build lasting advantages are the ones who look at that default and ask why. Not once, but repeatedly, until the answer either holds up […]