How to Use AI for Multifamily Market Research

AI-powered multifamily market research analysis showing a commercial real estate professional reviewing rent trends, property data, and submarket analytics on a digital dashboard.

AI multifamily market research is transforming how commercial real estate (CRE) professionals analyze markets, evaluate deals, and prepare investment reports. For most CRE professionals, it’s also one of the biggest time sinks. Pulling data from CoStar. Cross-referencing census reports. Scanning transaction databases. Reading city planning documents. Formatting charts. Stitching it all into a presentable market […]

AI in Commercial Real Estate: The Complete Guide for CRE Professionals (2026)

AI in commercial real estate showing digital property analytics dashboard with building data, charts, and AI-powered investment insights for CRE professionals.

A year ago, “AI in CRE” mostly meant ChatGPT with a real estate prompt. You’d paste in a rent roll, ask for analysis, and get something that looked decent but needed heavy editing. That’s not where we are anymore. AI in CRE in 2026 means autonomous agents that can ingest a full due diligence folder […]

How to Build AI Underwriting Skills in Manus

How to build AI underwriting skills in Manus using standardized Excel models for consistent commercial real estate deal analysis

If you’ve ever used AI underwriting for CRE to evaluate a deal, you’ve probably seen the problem. The output looks different every time, with tabs, formatting, and assumptions changing across Excel models. You can’t compare deals side by side when every Excel file is a one-off. I run the AI for CRE Collective (540+ members […]

How to Run AI Plan Mode for Better CRE Analysis

Illustrated feature image showing CRE professionals planning deal analysis using AI plan mode to improve underwriting accuracy.

If you’ve ever watched AI produce something wildly off-base because it made wrong assumptions about your deal, you already know why Plan Mode in Claude for CRE matters. I test AI tools on commercial real estate workflows every week with 540+ members in the AI for CRE Collective, and the single biggest factor separating good […]

Agentic AI in Real Estate

Agentic AI in Real Estate

Something shifted last week. Four companies launched agentic AI platforms for real estate in the last seven days. Lofty. AOS Perlin merged with Final Offer. James Harris teamed up with the founders to launch Breezy. And Ryan Sirhant is building out Simple. I cover AI for commercial real estate every week, and this was the […]

AI Due Diligence Commercial Real Estate

AI Due Diligence workflow infographic showing automated lease analysis, financial risk detection, and investment insights for CRE teams.

  AI Due Diligence in CRE is changing how commercial real estate professionals analyze deal folders and investment data. Traditional due diligence in commercial real estate takes forever because every folder is a mess of rent rolls, P&Ls, construction drawings, and mystery PDFs that may or may not be relevant. Last week, I took a […]

Lev’s AI OM Builder: A Real Look for CRE Brokers

Simple infographic showing LEV’s AI OM Builder for CRE brokers with a clean blue and white design.

AI OM Builder for CRE Brokers can save hours spent building offering memorandums in PowerPoint. I had Yaakov Zar, founder of Lev, on the AI for CRE Collective podcast for a live demo of their platform. The OM builder alone made the whole conversation worth it. I test AI tools for commercial real estate every […]