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 […]
The re-skilling wave is not coming. It is already here. And most people and most organizations in commercial real estate are ill-prepared for the AI Wave. That is not a criticism. It is an observation from two people who are in this every day, who track the model releases, build the tools, teach the workflows, […]
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.
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 the thing yourself. That is no longer true. Something shifted in the last few […]
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: real professionals building real AI tools that solve real problems. Q1 set the bar high. […]
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 […]
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? […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]