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Anne Morgan
October 15, 2025

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Hello, Commercial Real Estate Pros! 🏢

This issue highlights AI moving from pilot projects to real-world use in commercial real estate, enhancing underwriting, optimizing operations, and boosting leasing performance. CREW offers strategies for quick wins and governance to ensure reliable deployments.

Altus Group’s weekly update summarizes cap rates, sales figures, and sector trends, helping teams make informed decisions with current data.

📰 Upcoming in this issue

  • 🤖 AI in Everyday CRE Practice

  • 📈 CRE This Week: Data That Matters

  • 🏢 How AI Will Transform Commercial Real Estate

🤖 AI in Everyday CRE Practice

CREW examines how real estate professionals utilize AI in their day-to-day work, from reviewing leases to interacting with tenants. The report highlights early wins and common pitfalls to avoid.

Key Takeaways:

  • 🧾 Faster Underwriting: Models extract key terms from leases and loan documents, speeding due diligence while flagging risks for review.

  • 🧰 Operational Efficiency: Predictive maintenance and energy optimization reduce downtime and lower utility costs across assets.

  • 🧲 Leasing and Marketing: AI segments leads, drafts outreach, and personalizes tours to enhance conversion rates and reduce vacancy periods.

  • 🔐 Governance Matters: Data policies, audit trails, and bias checks ensure compliance and maintain trust with investors and tenants.

📈 CRE This Week: Data That Matters

Altus Group’s weekly brief distills market moves, from cap rates and sales volume to sector spotlights. Actionable charts show where momentum is building.

Key Takeaways:

  • 🧭 Market Snapshot: Transactions, pricing spreads, and debt costs are summarized succinctly, guiding buyers, lenders, and asset managers this week.

  • 🏬 Sector Highlights: Office distress remains uneven, while industrial demand holds steady, retail neighborhood centers remain firm, and multifamily rent growth steadies.

  • 💰 Policy and Capital: Rate expectations, refinancing walls, and construction pipelines are tracked to spotlight near-term risk and opportunity.

  • 📊 Charts You Can Use: Clear visuals translate data into decisions, supporting underwriting memos and portfolio updates.

🏢 How AI Will Transform Commercial Real Estate

From underwriting to operations, AI is transforming the way deals are made and assets are managed. The article highlights proven examples, early guardrails, and where financial gains are first evident.

Key Takeaways:

  • 📊 Sharper Underwriting: Models analyze leases, comps, and market data to surface risks earlier and improve investment speed.

  • 🧰 Operational Gains: Predictive maintenance and energy management enhance efficiency and lift NOI across portfolios.

  • 🧲 Leasing Acceleration: Smarter outreach and segmentation tools shorten lease-up times and increase tenant quality.

  • 🔐 Governance Required: Strong data standards, privacy protections, and bias reviews make AI adoption both compliant and sustainable.

Why It Matters

Effective AI, when combined with up-to-date market insights and robust data quality controls, accelerates decision-making, boosts NOI, and improves tenant outcomes.

Integrating real-world cases with well-defined metrics and policy safeguards enables experimentation to yield consistent, repeatable results.

Catch you in the next issue,

Anne Morgan
Editor-in-Chief
Commercial Real Estate Weekly

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