Real Estate Financial Modeling Accelerator (Updated November 2023)
Prior to launching the Accelerator program, Michael and I fielded email after email requesting a more structured real estate financial modeling training program on the site.
Over the years, we've covered hundreds of real estate modeling…
We Need Your Help – Survey for A.CRE Events (2023)
We need your help to improve our event programming! Last year the A.CRE team organized a combined 43 events, including virtual webinars, in-person meetings, conference keynotes, student speaker events, an A.CRE retreat to Mexico, and various…
The Elephant in the Room – Recession and the Real Estate Job Market
The impacts of a potential recession have certainly already affected the real estate job market. You may have already been a part of the nationwide layoffs. Or you may be a part of the upcoming nationwide layoffs that have already plagued many…
Real Estate Hiring Lessons from the Executive Perspective
This year our team has facilitated a total of six webinars with companies that were in the midst of hiring their new intern, analyst, and associate classes and learned multiple real estate hiring lessons. These companies ranged from publicly…
Learning Real Estate Financial Modeling in Excel
We're often asked by our readers how we learned to be proficient in real estate financial modeling. The question usually arises because the person wants to know how to model real estate in Excel to either land a job in commercial real estate…
Blue Lake Capital – A.CRE Real Estate Sponsor Series
This post is the second in a new series at A.CRE, our Real Estate Sponsor Series. This series aims to catalog the various real estate investors across the country. For this article, we interviewed Blue Lake Capital’s Director of Investor Relations,…
Pilot-Legacy Private Equity Group – A.CRE Real Estate Sponsor Series
This post is the first in a new series at A.CRE, our Real Estate Sponsor Series. This series aims to catalog the various real estate investors across the country. For this article, we interview Pilot-Legacy Private Equity Group’s Lane Beene.…
A.CRE on the Road, Come Join Us in Person!
A.CRE will be on the road and hosting events in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City in the next month and we'd love to connect in person with all of you in these cities. We will be hosting some happy hours and the drinks are on us!…
Tips to Nail Your Next Commercial Real Estate Interview
Recently, our team partnered with the Graduate Real Estate Council at Cornell University where we worked with their students in providing mock interviews with Cornell alumni. Our goal in this effort was to help these students at the beginning…
LinkedIn Networking Tips that Get you Results in Commercial Real Estate
Building your network is a proactive way to gain an advantage in the hiring process and to hedge against uncertainty when you are struggling to find a job. This article is part of our LinkedIn 101 networking series, aimed at providing you with…
Top 4 Challenges when Hiring Real Estate Talent
Our goal with this article is to help real estate hiring managers receive higher-quality applicants interested in their positions. With the A.CRE Accelerator, our team has trained over 3,000 real estate candidates to be great at real estate…
LinkedIn Job Search 101 for CRE Professionals
Our goal with this post is to help you use LinkedIn most effectively in your job search. It's the first post in a series of a LinkedIn 101 networking series to help you get the most out of this resource. Because commercial real estate is such…
Day in the Life of a Capital Markets Associate with Daniel Greenblum
In this Day in the Life of a Commercial Real Estate Professional post, we hear from Daniel Greenblum, a capital markets Associate at a real estate loan broker, Lev Capital.
Daniel has been kind enough to share his typical daily routine and…
Important Considerations for International CRE Students
For you job candidates who are international CRE students and want to get a job in the U.S. in the industry, here are my three biggest tips to help you find success:
Set Specific Goals for Yourself
Network Persistently
Don’t Lose…
Marquette Real Estate Strategies Conference Takeaways
Marquette University recently held its 11th annual Real Estate Strategies Conference. Our Co-Founder, Spencer Burton, had the privilege of being the Keynote speaker so a few members of our team came up to support him.
A quote from Jack…
Day in the Life of Mortgage Lending with Ian Hawk
In this ‘Day in the Life of a Commercial Real Estate Professional’ post, we hear from Ian Hawk, Associate at a real estate mortgage lending company, Dwight Mortgage Trust in New York City.
Ian has been kind enough to share his typical…