CRE Underwriting Insights & Resources

From Excel to AI: The Transition in Real Estate Financial Modeling

Excel-based financial modeling is costing you deals. While you're manually updating spreadsheets, your competitors are leveraging AI to close more deals, faster. Here's exactly how the industry is transforming—and why many can't afford to fall behind.

From Weeks to Minutes: How AI Speeds CRE Underwriting

AI underwriting slashes CRE analysis time by up to 98%, enabling faster commercial real estate deals and improved accuracy.

How AI is Revolutionizing Commercial Underwriting

While you spend weeks analyzing deals manually, your competitors snap up the best opportunities. Research across top markets shows slow underwriting directly costs you millions in missed deals and lost revenue.

How Banks Decide Your Commercial Real Estate Fate

Learn exactly how lenders size CRE loans in 2025, the key ratios they trust, and how Cactus cuts weeks off underwriting timelines.

How Investors & Underwriters Should Evaluate Opportunities: Build-to-Rent (BTR) 2025

Build-to-Rent (BTR) is emerging as one of 2025’s most attractive housing strategies, but underwriting these deals requires a different playbook than traditional multifamily. This guide breaks down the key assumptions, market metrics, and pro forma checklists investors and underwriters need to evaluate BTR opportunities with confidence.

How to Start a Storage Unit Business with No Money: A 3 Step Plan

Many entrepreneurs have successfully built storage businesses with no money. This 3-step plan outlines financing options and strategies to acquire a storage facility with no money.

How to Underwrite Deals in Minutes with AI: A Step-by-Step Guide

How to Underwrite Self-Storage Properties

How to Underwrite Self Storage in 5 Steps

Migration Millions: How Cactus Unlocks CRE Opportunities in America's Relocation Boom

For the forward-thinking CRE investor, the critical question isn't just what's happening, but how can I strategically capitalize on this trend?

Multifamily Residential Underwriting: Step-by-Step Process

Stop losing deals to outdated underwriting methods. This guide breaks down exactly how successful multifamily investors evaluate properties in today's market—with real metrics and actionable steps you can implement immediately.