CRE Underwriting Insights & Resources

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Excel Alternative for Real Estate Underwriting: Meet Cactus 🌵

Cactus vs. Excel for Real Estate Underwriting

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.

Two analysts reviewing a commercial real estate deal on a computer in a modern office setting.

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.