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 a direct pipeline that makes those fees optional rather than mandatory? […]
If you use Claude often, 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, and then call that behavior with a short, natural request whenever you […]
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 the people who build something lasting from the people who grind themselves into the ground, […]
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 ability to create institutional-quality real estate Excel models for all major property types and investment strategies.
With the pace at which new AI models are being released, this has become a surprisingly difficult question to answer. One week a model is best-in-class. The next week, a new release leapfrogs it. Pricing changes. Benchmark results update. Context windows expand. Open-weight models get better. And for those of us in commercial real estate, […]
The Q1 2026 Build Competition has officially wrapped, and what a quarter it was. From autonomous valuation tools to AI-powered permit assistants, this cohort pushed the boundaries of what’s possible when CRE professionals put AI to work. The quality and diversity of submissions made this one genuinely hard to judge. A huge thank you to […]
There is a version of every professional service job where you are just moving paper. Executing transactions, billing hours, closing deals. And there is another version where the person across from you feels like you are actually on their side. The first one is a commodity. The second one is not. Jack Stone started as […]
Every few years, a new technology arrives and someone declares a skill dead. Spreadsheets killed accounting. Search engines made memorization pointless. Now AI is coming for everything else, or so the argument goes. The problem is that the argument confuses the tool with the work. The calculator did not eliminate the need to understand division. […]
The real competitive advantage in commercial real estate has never been access to information. It has always been knowing what to do with it. That was true when the edge was a Bloomberg terminal. It was true when the edge was a well-built Excel model. And it is true now, when the edge is knowing […]
We’re welcoming James Nelson back for another A.CRE Ask-Me-Anything (AMA). James is a nationally recognized real estate investor, educator, and 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 than two decades of experience in commercial real estate, […]
The AI divide is not a prediction. It is already here. Some professionals are doing in 20 minutes what used to take two days. Others have not changed a single workflow. Both groups show up to the same offices, live in the same neighborhoods, and earn similar salaries. That will not last. In this episode […]
We’re kicking off the new year with something big. The AI.Edge Q1 2026 Build Competition is now open, a hands-on challenge built for those ready to turn AI exploration into something tangible, useful, and CRE-specific. If you’ve been experimenting with AI tools, building custom workflows, or thinking about how to apply generative AI in real […]
El 15 de enero, más de 700 profesionales de bienes raíces comerciales se unieron en vivo con Spencer, (casi 1,400 se registraron) para aprender una idea simple pero poderosa: Cualquier profesional de Bienes Raíces Comerciales, sin importar su nivel técnico o su conocimiento de inteligencia artificial, puede multiplicar su productividad con IA. No trabajando más horas. […]
En A.CRE, siempre nos hemos enfocado en capacitar a la industria. Durante la última década, eso ha significado en gran medida modelación financiera. Hemos creado y compartido modelos en Excel que se han descargado más de 600,000 veces, porque aprender a modelar flujos de efectivo inmobiliarios es una habilidad altamente apalancable para el crecimiento profesional. […]
At A.CRE, we have always been about training the industry. For the past decade, that has largely meant financial modeling. We’ve built and shared Excel models that have been downloaded over 600,000 times, because learning to model real estate cash flows is a leveraged skill for your career. Today, AI is starting to feel very […]