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Hello, Commercial Real Estate Pros! 🏢

In this issue, we’ll talk about a persistent challenge in commercial real estate: fragmented software that slows dealmaking and operations. The industry still relies on custom patches and piecemeal tools, but a new generation of solutions—like AI-powered platforms—is finally aiming to unify workflows and simplify financing, marketing, and lender sourcing in one seamless environment.

As tech-first firms embrace integrated software, a smoother, smarter future for CRE is within reach.

📰 Upcoming in this issue

• 💻 Commercial Real Estate Still Has a Software Problem

• 📈 Triple-Play Growth: How to Make 100%+ Fees in Real Estate

• 📊 Flip Smart | Tiny Deal, Huge Potential: How to Make $300K Day‑One

📈 Trending news

• When Tenants Collapse, CRE Landlords Face Legal Crossfire

• CRE Crisis in Minneapolis: Office Landlords Struggle to Refinance or Renovate

• CRE Wins Big: 100% Bonus Depreciation Restored—Cash Flow Surges

💻 Commercial Real Estate Still Has a Software Problem

Despite a pressing need for tech innovation, the commercial real estate industry remains bogged down by fragmented tools, inconsistent workflows, and reliance on labor-intensive manual processes—until now.

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Key Takeaways:

• 🧩 Fragmented Tool Ecosystem: CRE firms rely on multiple, disconnected software tools, increasing complexity and inefficiency.

• 🤖 AI-Driven Financing Workflows: Lev’s platform automates deal creation, lender matching, and document generation, simplifying capital market operations.

• 🌐 Industry-Wide Perspective: There's a growing push for software solutions covering the entire CRE lifecycle, moving beyond specialized, isolated applications.

• 📝 Cultural Barriers to Adoption: Resistance to change within the industry remains a major hurdle to technology innovation and software adoption.

📈 Triple-Play Growth: How to Make 100%+ Fees in Real Estate

Forget hacks—there are only three core levers to grow ANY business (even real estate). Change just one, and your income shifts. Flip all three? That’s when the numbers get wild.

Watch the full video here »

Key Takeaways:

• 👥 Grow Customers = More Deals: You can earn more by doing more transactions, or by closing more clients—even double-ending transactions.

• 💸 Raise Your Ticket Value: Sell bigger deals or command higher margins. Think commercial over residential, or push off-market/off-market deals to command 5–6% vs. 2% listings.

• 🔄 Stretch Commissions with Creative Structures: Who said your fee must be 2%? You can close 22% on wholesale flips, or earn 100%+ value via creative financing, equity kickers, tax strategies, and recurring income—all while working the same deals.

• 🧠 Think Like an Investor, Not Just a Broker: Unlock bigger checks by spotting distressed assets, structuring win-win seller finance deals, or even taking properties down yourself.

📊 Flip Smart | Tiny Deal, Huge Potential: How to Make $300K Day‑One

Forget chasing $50M deals—sometimes the biggest profits come from small, under-the-radar opportunities. This real estate conversation reveals exactly how.

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Key Takeaways:

• 🧱 Cap Rate Magic = Hidden Value: A fully leased triplex with $84K net income and no debt? That’s a ~9.3% cap rate—rare in today’s market and a powerful starting point.

• 🎯 Seller Financing Boosts Your Game: Just 100K down unlocks the ability to flip it or hold it. Seller financing opens the door to deals that otherwise might not close.

• 💼 Creative Deals, Massive Margins: Flip at ~1.1M or hold it: you could pocket $200–300K day one with either strategy—from a modest 900K asset.

• 📈 Recurring Income Spurs ROI: Take 7K/month triple net rent, pay 3K to the seller, subtract minor expenses—factor in financing on 100K—and your ROI is 38% annually, plus instant equity and cash flow.

• 🧩 Start Small, Wind Up Big: Whether it’s single units or small multifamily, the true secret to wealth isn’t scale alone—it’s structuring, negotiating, and spotting value where others overlook it.

Why It Matters

Commercial real estate may have been slow to modernize, but the tide is turning. As innovators push for integrated, intelligent platforms, the industry is inching closer to shedding its patchwork past.

The firms that embrace these smarter systems today won’t just gain efficiency—they’ll lead the charge into a more connected and competitive future.

Anne Morgan
Editor-in-Chief
Commercial Real Estate Weekly