Most people in commercial real estate still think Excel macros are for “the IT guy down the hall.” You underwrite, you manage rent rolls, you crank out lender packages in Excel all day… but the moment someone says “VBA,” you are out. That used to make sense. Writing macros meant learning a programming language on […]
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On a recent live follow-up workshop, we took the Multiplier Framework out of “high level theory” and applied it to the most requested target in commercial real estate: Underwriting, the number one task CRE professionals said they want to automate. The goal was simple. Show exactly how AI overlaps cleanly with your existing underwriting workflow, […]
If you haven’t noticed, we’ve been exploring use cases, training, and tools related to AI in commercial real estate a lot lately! The reason is that Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize the commercial real estate industry by transforming the way acquisitions, development, management, advisory, and marketing teams in the industry operate. AI tools […]
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 topics in our blog, published hours of video, and shared 70+ real estate Excel models in our Library. Nonetheless, no matter how many posts […]
On January 15, over 700 commercial real estate professionals joined me live (nearly 1,400 registered) to learn a simple idea: Any CRE professional, regardless of technical skill or AI knowledge, can multiply their output. Not by working longer hours. Not by hiring a bigger team. But by taking a disciplined, systematic approach to the work […]
As many of you recall, in 2015 I set out to build an Excel alternative to the widely-used (and now discontinued) ARGUS DCF. With career moves and a lot of other A.CRE-related side projects, this undertaking has been slow going. Alas, in 2016 I released the first beta-version of the model – my All-in-One (Ai1) […]
I’ve spent the past few weekends working on a purpose-built Self Storage Acquisition Model, and I’m now happy to share the result of that work with you. This is a model that’s been requested by quite a few A.CRE readers over the past few years. I released a Self Storage Development Model last year, and […]
AI is finally good enough that you can now leverage it to realistically multiply your output in CRE. The AI Multiplier Framework is our method for doing just that. It gives you a structured way to find, rank, and execute automation opportunities so you can actually hit a meaningful multiplier in 12 months. This post […]
If you work in acquisitions, asset management, brokerage, development, portfolio management, or valuation, you probably feel the tension already. On one hand, today’s AI tools for real estate can draft emails, summarize leases, and pull market stats with ease. On the other hand, you would not trust them to run a full underwriting, manage a […]
Today, we’re thrilled to share with the A.CRE community a new timesaving (and free) Excel tool: the ‘Excel 4 CRE’ Add-in! Over the past few years, we at A.CRE (together with various AI coding tools) have been developing and sharing this Excel add-in. The goal? To make real estate financial modeling faster and more efficient […]
Using keyboard shortcuts is essential to improving the speed and efficiency at which you model real estate in Excel. One thing you’ll learn early in your CRE career, the more proficient you become in using your keyboard without a mouse to navigate around Excel, the more valuable you’ll be as a real estate financial analyst. […]
As part of my work at CRE Agents, I recently built a pretty cool demographics tool that I’d like to a) give you access to and b) provide the backstory behind. It started with a skill created at CRE Agents for an acquisitions AI coworker called Deep Location Analysis. This AI-powered process uses vision models […]
Over the past year, we’ve been experimenting heavily with (and successfully using) AI coding tools to push the boundaries of what’s possible in commercial real estate. We’ve used v0 to quickly scope frontend designs, and we’ve spun up various web apps using tools like Replit, Bolt.new, Lovable, and Cursor to support everything from content creation […]
When I first published this guide in early 2023, ChatGPT felt like a novelty. It was impressive, experimental, and even a little unnerving. But for most in CRE, it was still just a toy. Fast forward two and a half years, and that’s no longer the case. Today, AI is embedded in the way serious […]