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  • Genre:business & economics
  • Sub-genre:Real Estate / General
  • Language:English
  • Pages:148
  • Hardcover ISBN:9798998352904

The Real Estate Intelligence Shift

What AI Means for Asset Values, Operations, and Strategy in the Built World

By Chris Kelly and Adam Pase

Overview


AI in real estate is one transformation with two effects: how real estate companies operate, and what their assets are worth. The operating effect is already underway: the firm that underwrites, builds, and manages with less labor and more speed takes the deal, and the gap hardens into a moat. The asset effect is slower and larger: AI changes which jobs exist, where people work, and how much space it all requires, and the demand underneath a building shifts with it. This book is about how the two effects compound. In The Real Estate Intelligence Shift, the co-founders of Stackpoint, a venture studio that built 8 AI companies in the past 3 years, show you how to identify the triggers early: observable signals in your own markets, not forecasts you take on faith. You'll learn to sort the assets you hold into obsolete, distressed, stable, and growth, and turn the data, workflows, and relationships you already control into leverage, so you can lead your organization through the change.
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Description


AI is repricing real estate. This book is about how to read the shift before the market prices it for you.

Most of what is written about AI and real estate covers one effect: how AI changes the way real estate companies operate. A firm that can underwrite, build, and manage with far less labor and far more speed takes the deal, and over time that gap hardens into a moat. That part is already underway.

There is a second effect that gets far less attention, and it is slower and larger. AI changes which jobs exist, where people work, how goods move through a city, and how much physical space all of it requires. When those patterns shift, the demand underneath a building shifts with them, and the assumptions the asset was underwritten against stop holding. The same trend that strands one property makes another one scarce.

The Real Estate Intelligence Shift is about both effects and how they compound. It does not forecast dates. It works from triggers: observable, near-term signals in your own markets that an asset is moving from one category to another before pricing reflects it.

Written for owners, operators, developers, lenders, investors, and the people who advise them, the book moves in four stages: where we are, what it may mean for each asset class and operating function, what to do about it, and the tools to start. By the last chapter you should be able to:

  • Classify every asset you hold by its real exposure: obsolete, distressed, stable, or growth
  • Read the triggers in your own markets before they show up in pricing
  • Run conservative, base, and aggressive scenarios on any building you own
  • Evaluate AI vendors with a framework instead of a demo impression
  • Lead your team through adoption with bounded, measurable experiments
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About The Author


Stackpoint is a venture studio that conceives, builds, and funds AI companies in complex industries such as real estate, insurance, construction, finance, and hospitality. Chris and Adam lead the studio’s investment and operational strategy and work hands-on with the founders of the companies it builds.

Before Stackpoint, they navigated multiple businesses from conception through scale. Chris co-founded Convene, a workplace hospitality platform with 40 locations in 9 cities; his companies have generated over $2B in revenue. Adam co-founded Proof (formerly Notarize), which established the category for online notarization and digital real estate closings. His companies have raised $250M+ and generated more than $2B in equity value.

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