Practical CRE resources.
Look through public tools, start with a prompt, research a proptech company through source trails and public review profiles, or study how a real deal made money. Each resource tells you what it is for, what was checked and when, and what you still need to verify yourself. The last room is not real estate at all.
The five resource rooms
Open-source tools worth testing in real estate.
Most useful real estate software did not begin as real estate software. Each project carries a plain-English CRE use, its setup level, its license and a caution, so you can decide what deserves a closer look before anyone installs it.
- /last30daysTest tenant and consumer sentimentLight technical setup
- Agent ReachGive a research agent more places to look when tracking a proptech companyLight technical setup
- FirecrawlMonitor public planning pagesDeveloper setup
Public code is not proof that a tool is safe, supported, or right for your firm. Every entry states what to check first.
Explore open-source toolsGet the full ask, not a one-line tip.
Written from scratch for investors, asset managers, developers, brokers and property managers. Every prompt names what to give the AI, what good work looks like, and what to check before you use the answer.
- Deal QuickScreenDecide whether a new opportunity deserves full underwriting.investor · Public
- Acquisition Underwriting & IRR AnalysisBuild an evidence-linked acquisition case and calculate unlevered and levered returns.investor · Public
- Budget vs. Actual Variance & Root-Cause ReviewExplain where property performance moved off plan and decide what to correct.asset-manager · Public
Search the company. Open the evidence.
Look up a company by name or by the job it does. The record shows its sources, the status we checked and the date we checked it, its public review profiles, and the facts we still do not know.
- VTSLeasing and asset-management platform for commercialUnknown — not yet checked
- MRI ProLeaseCloud-basedActive · HTTP 07-28
- Yardi (Voyager 8 / Virtuoso AI)Yardi's flagship property-management ERPActive · HTTP 07-28
This is a research record, not a ranking or recommendation.
Search the proptech censusHow The Deal Actually Made Money.
Famous CRE deals rebuilt from the public record. Each study shows what was bought, what it sold for, and where the return really came from — with a source and a date on every number.
Nº 27 · August 6, 2026 · 16 min readOne loan wearing seven addresses: the Macklowe towers were due all at onceIn February 2007 Harry Macklowe put $50 million of his own cash under $7 billion of one-year debt and bought Blackstone’s Manhattan slice of Equity Office in about ten days. The credit window closed that August, the loans matured in February, and the unwind took sixteen months — no bankruptcy, no auction, the lender financing the final buyer itself, and no published total, then or since, of what anyone got back.- Nº 28 · August 6, 2026 · 15 min readThe exit went to zero. The yield only rises.
- Nº 29 · August 6, 2026 · 16 min readThe track record was the rate cycle wearing a firm.
Not everything here is real estate.
The things Darryl and Ben build for fun. Less serious than anything else on the site, not for sale, and still real — open one and it actually runs, right here.
- dineLA 2026Every posted prix-fixe menu, searchable by the dish rather than the restaurant503 restaurants
- PreflightWhich side gets the sun, how to beat the jet lag, and what a delay already owes you7,917 airports
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