If you’ve underwritten even a handful of deals, you know the pain: you get an income and expense statement from a property owner, and it’s a mess. Vague line items like “Repairs & Misc.” or “Admin/Other” don’t tell you much. So, you end up spending precious time remapping every line into your own chart of […]
Commercial real estate (CRE) is entering a new era—one where AI-native firms will dramatically outpace their competitors in productivity, insights, and agility. But what does it actually mean to be “AI-native”? And more importantly, how can your firm get there? This post lays out a comprehensive, step-by-step strategy based on our Comprehensive Strategic Plan for […]
If you’ve ever spent an afternoon manually entering deal assumptions into an Excel model, flipping between pages of the OM, double-checking decimal points, and wondering if you caught every input, you’ll appreciate this one. Now, the process of building a financial model for single-tenant net lease (STNL) properties just got a major upgrade. The CRE […]
In a recent post, we argued that only AI-native real estate companies will survive and win. And the feedback we received confirmed a growing consensus: this shift is already happening. But going from concept to reality requires more than mindset. It requires the right tools. Being AI-native means having a team of AI-first thinkers who […]
In late 2021, before most people had heard of ChatGPT, we had started tinkering with the idea of a digital coworker for commercial real estate (though we didn’t call it that yet!). At the time, we were working with OpenAI’s GPT-3. It wasn’t all that powerful, and it certainly wasn’t built to handle CRE tasks. […]
When you interact with a digital coworker at CRE Agents, it might feel like you’re talking to a single, capable assistant. But behind that seamless interface is something much more sophisticated—a team of “AI agents”, each trained for a specific role or workflow, coordinated by a central orchestrating agent. This structure mimics how high-performing teams […]
The future of commercial real estate will be built – not just with steel and glass – but with words. Specifically, well-crafted AI prompts! At CRE Agents, we’re building the first AI agentic platform specifically for CRE teams. While the doors aren’t open yet, we’re already helping early adopters get more from the tools they’re […]
Artificial intelligence is changing how we work in commercial real estate, but it’s not without risks. One of the biggest risks? Hallucinations. These are moments when generative AI literally makes things up, delivering information that sounds accurate but isn’t. And in CRE, where precision is everything, that’s a massive problem. In this post, we unpack […]
A few days ago, I came across an internal memo from Shopify’s CEO, Tobi Lütke. It was honest, direct, and already in the process of being leaked—so he published it himself. One line stopped me cold: “Reflexive AI usage is now a baseline expectation at Shopify.” That wasn’t aspirational. It was policy. And while Shopify […]
Generative image tools have been around for a few years now, but the latest drop from OpenAI—GPT‑4o takes things a step further. Not just photorealism or artistic flair. We’re talking usefulness. This model isn’t just trained to make beautiful images. It’s trained to understand and visualize context with precision. That means clear diagrams, labeled mockups, […]