AI Deal Desk Speeds CRE Decisions and Closings ⚡

Smart Contracts and Automation Cut CRE Friction

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Anne Morgan
September 09, 2025

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How 433 Investors Unlocked 400X Return Potential

Institutional investors back startups to unlock outsized returns. Regular investors have to wait. But not anymore. Thanks to regulatory updates, some companies are doing things differently.

Take Revolut. In 2016, 433 regular people invested an average of $2,730. Today? They got a 400X buyout offer from the company, as Revolut’s valuation increased 89,900% in the same timeframe.

Founded by a former Zillow exec, Pacaso’s co-ownership tech reshapes the $1.3T vacation home market. They’ve earned $110M+ in gross profit to date, including 41% YoY growth in 2024 alone. They even reserved the Nasdaq ticker PCSO.

The same institutional investors behind Uber, Venmo, and eBay backed Pacaso. And you can join them. But not for long. Pacaso’s investment opportunity ends September 18.

Paid advertisement for Pacaso’s Regulation A offering. Read the offering circular at invest.pacaso.com. Reserving a ticker symbol is not a guarantee that the company will go public. Listing on the NASDAQ is subject to approvals.

Hello, Commercial Real Estate Pros! 🏢

In this issue, Hutfin combines AI and blockchain to help investors and brokers make faster, smarter CRE decisions. The platform provides predictive trend forecasting, instant AVMs, and NLP matching. It also introduces on-chain Digital Ownership Passports created through tokenization.

Case studies report a 35% reduction in search time and a 22% increase in ROI.

Here’s what stands out this week.

📰 Upcoming in this issue

  • 🤖 Hutfin’s AI Reimagines Smarter CRE Decisions

  • 🤖 BGO Uses AI to Find Undervalued CRE in Unlikely Markets

  • 🌱 Regenerative Real Estate is the Future

🤖 Hutfin’s AI Reimagines Smarter CRE Decisions

It pairs predictive analytics and AVMs with blockchain-backed Digital Ownership Passports. Case studies cite 35% faster search and 22% higher ROI.

Key Takeaways:

  • 🤖 Predictive Analytics & AVMs: Platform forecasts trends and delivers instant automated valuations, helping brokers and investors move faster with clearer signals.

  • 📈 Proven Workflow Gains: NLP matching cuts property search time by 35% and predictive picks lifted one investor’s returns by 22%.

  • 🔗 Blockchain Transparency: On-chain records and Digital Ownership Passports enable auditability, tokenization, and fractional ownership that widen access while building trust.

  • 🌍 Founder Vision & Expansion: CEO Arun Ghosh positions Hutfin to scale globally, integrating localized data and partnerships across the U.S., Europe, and Southeast Asia.

🤖 BGO Uses AI to Find Undervalued CRE in Unlikely Markets

CNBC reports how $89 billion manager, BGO, backtested 20 years of deals and discovered local markets drive outperformance. Its model pointed to a Las Vegas industrial bet with NorthPoint that traditional research overlooked.

Key Takeaways:

  • 🧠 Local Beats Macro: Backtests of two decades show performance depends on local market fundamentals, not national trends or headline asset pricing.

  • 🛠️ AI-Guided Picks: BGO’s model flagged a Las Vegas industrial project with NorthPoint Development, an unlikely outperformer that traditional research might overlook.

  • 🔍 Upside and Downside Views: Investment teams model upside scenarios, lending teams model downside risk, creating balanced decisions and clearer underwriting discipline.

  • 🧭 What’s Next: Next iterations aim to allocate across sectors and geographies, turning insights into repeatable playbooks for sourcing, pricing, and portfolio weighting.

🌱 Regenerative Real Estate is the Future

An industry CEO argues buildings should give back, not just use less. His Dubai project incorporates EMF shielding, crystals, and on-site farming into the overall design.

Key Takeaways:

  • 🌿 From Less Bad to Net Positive: Projects aim to clean air, restore biodiversity, and generate water, moving beyond efficiency to reciprocity.

  • 💼 Commercial Case is Strong: Demand, regulation, and impact capital align, improving resilience, future compliance, and long-term asset value.

  • 🧰 Practices in the Wild: Example features include EMF remediation, crystalline geometry, native landscaping, structured water, eco-concrete, and hydroponic farming.

  • 🧭 Mindset Shift Now: Treat buildings as living systems, establish net-positive goals, and measure regenerative outcomes that benefit residents, cities, and investors.

Why It Matters

These capabilities can shorten underwriting time and reveal better deals for brokers and investors. On-chain records and fractional ownership models can build trust and broaden investor access.

If adoption grows, teams can time bids more effectively, cut down on manual work, and boost portfolio returns.

Catch you in the next issue,

Anne Morgan
Editor-in-Chief
Commercial Real Estate Weekly

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