AI in Commercial Real Estate

Release date: 2026

Course length: 8 hours/ 8 modules 
Level: Intermediate to Advanced 
Designed for: Developers, owners, asset managers, financial managers, investors and brokers.
Course Access: Upon enrollment, students have 90 days to complete this course.

This foundational course equips commercial real estate professionals with the essential concepts, tools and strategies needed to leverage artificial intelligence—both individually and organizationally. Designed for professionals across all CRE disciplines, it progresses from building personal AI fluency to leading organizational transformation. You'll gain practical skills with today's leading AI tools while learning how to evaluate, pilot and scale AI adoption within your team or firm. Whether you're a developer, broker, asset manager, attorney or workplace strategist, this course provides the foundation to compete and lead in an AI-integrated industry.

This course is taught by CRE AI Studio co-founders Jonathan Buckelew, Nadine Ezzie and Topher Stephenson. After completing the course and passing the exam with an 80% or above, you will be provided a unique code to access the CRE AI Studio for three months.

Course modules:

  1. AI and CRE - Why Now, Why You
  2. Understanding the AI Landscape
  3. AI in Action - Use Cases Across CRE
  4. Hands-on AI - Prompting and Workflows
  5. From Individual to Team - Bringing AI to Your Organization
  6. Change Management and AI Culture
  7. Governance, Risk and Responsible AI 
  8. The Future-ready Organization: Your AI Roadmap

Please note: Individual course modules are not available for purchase for this course. Enrollment is offered for the full course only, and participants must register for the complete program to access the content.

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Module 1: AI and CRE - Why Now, Why You E-learning Module
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Begin self-paced component package. Understand why AI is a critical, present-day capability in commercial real estate and how it is already reshaping industry expectations, workflows and required skillsets. Explore what AI is and what it is not, while reviewing practical use cases across analysis, marketing, communication and tool-building to begin developing an AI-first mindset for your daily work.
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Module 1: AI and CRE - Why Now, Why You Slides
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Module 2: Understanding the AI Landscape E-learning Module
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Begin self-paced component package. Understand the core categories of AI, including generative, automation and agentic systems, and learn how key tools fit into the commercial real estate workflow. Evaluate AI’s capabilities and limitations while identifying practical ways to apply the right tools to everyday tasks and separate meaningful applications from industry hype.
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Module 2: Understanding the AI Landscape Slides
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Module 3: AI in Action - Use Cases Across CRE E-learning Module
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Begin self-paced component package. Explore how AI can be applied across key commercial real estate functions including leasing, asset management, acquisitions, development and legal analysis to automate workflows and generate actionable outputs. Learn practical techniques for structuring prompts, analyzing documents, building reports and creating repeatable AI-driven processes to enhance decision-making and efficiency.
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Module 4: Hands-on AI - Prompting and Workflows E-learning Module
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Begin self-paced component package. Learn how to effectively communicate with AI by using prompt and context engineering to produce higher-quality, more accurate outputs. This module teaches how to structure prompts with clear roles, context, constraints and examples, while applying iteration and prompt chaining to improve results for real-world tasks.
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Module 4: Hands-on AI - Prompting and Workflows Slides
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Module 5: From Individual to Team - Bringing AI to Your Organization E-learning Module
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Begin self-paced component package. Module five focuses on turning individual AI usage into organization-wide impact by embedding AI into standardized workflows and processes. It explains why most firms struggle with adoption and outlines a practical framework to move from experimentation to measurable results. You will learn how to prioritize use cases, evaluate tools and execute a focused AI pilot that drives real business value.
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Module 5: From Individual to Team - Bringing AI to Your Organization Slides
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Module 6: Change Management and AI Culture E-learning Module
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Begin self-paced component package. Understand how to successfully drive AI adoption by focusing on the people, not just the tools, exploring common barriers, resistance types and the role of change management. Learn how to design effective training, communicate with stakeholders and foster a culture that supports confident, sustained use of AI.
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Module 7: Governance, Risk and Responsible AI E-learning Module
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Begin self-paced component package. Define the governance, risk and compliance practices needed for responsible AI use; understand how to protect sensitive data, establish clear usage policies and implement practical guardrails. Apply these principles to safely scale AI adoption while managing risks like bias, hallucinations and confidentiality exposure.
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Module 8: The Future-ready Organization: Your AI Roadmap E-learning Module
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Begin self-paced component package. Understand how to measure the effectiveness and ROI of AI initiatives using a structured KPI framework. Learn how to build and execute a practical roadmap to scale AI adoption across your organization in a methodical, sustainable way.
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AI in Commercial Real Estate Exam - Required for Certificate Candidates
30 Questions  |  5 attempts  |  24/30 points to pass
30 Questions  |  5 attempts  |  24/30 points to pass
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AI in Commercial Real Estate Evaluation
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8.00 PDH, AIA Learning Units credits  |  Certificate available
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Tuition & Register

Payment for a CREDA on-demand course entitles access for one person only to the course and all materials.

Course Tuition

Member TypeUSDCAD
Member$499$699
Nonmember$724$1,014
Developing Leader$390$546
University Faculty Member$199$279
Student Member$199$279
Student Nonmember$249$349


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Note: You have 90 days from the date you register to complete this course. 

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The course starts from AI fundamentals and then ties in the context of how it can be used within the commercial real estate realm. The best part about the course is when it starts to talk about AI adoption, how to roll things out, and how to have metrics for assessing whether the AI implementation is working or not. That part was very relevant, and the handouts are also really well made to refer back to when you're probably doing something with it.
Jhanvi Udani, Strategy Associate, Regional Industrial Development Corporation (RIDC)

Completing the AI in Commercial Real Estate course has provided me with a valuable framework to elevate my underwriting and analysis workflows. This course effectively showcases the massive potential of AI in CRE. I found the module covering prompt engineering especially high value. I look forward to bringing these AI best practices back to my colleagues and firm.
Nicholas Shanley, Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis, Atapco Properties

This course gave me a real-world understanding of how to use AI effectively in commercial real estate industry from prompt engineering basics to specific applications like leasing, legal review, and asset management. I'd recommend it to any CRE professional looking to move past the hype and actually put AI to work.
Joseph Dominguez, Student, University of San Diego

AI is here to stay. It is not something to be afraid of as long as it is used for what it is, a tool that will allow you to focus your time and efforts on the work that produces the most ROI for your or your company. This course walks you thru the steps on how to implement AI so that it actually works for you instead of against you.
Vince Garcia, Pretorian Realty

Bringing AI into a commercial real estate organization is not the same as using it yourself. It requires an entire organizational shift. This course gives professionals the framework to get it right: standardizing processes before automating them, leading their teams through change, and building the governance that makes AI adoption sustainable.
Nadine Ezzie, Co-founder of CRE AI Studio 

I spent over a decade in multifamily asset management before I ever touched an AI tool — and when I did, I realized how much time I’d left on the table. This course closes the gap. It gives CRE professionals a clear picture of what tools exist, what they’re actually good for, and how to bring an organization along the right way. You’ll walk away knowing which problems AI can solve for your specific workflows and how to roll it out in a way your team will actually follow. For anyone serious about staying competitive, this isn’t optional education — it’s foundational.
Jonathan Buckelew, Co-founder of CRE AI Studio

Accessing AI is easy. The hard part is putting it to work in a way that actually saves you time. That's what this course delivers. It takes you from playing with prompts to building repeatable workflows that give you back time in your schedule. You won't just learn what AI can do. You'll leave with practical applications you can run Monday morning, plus a plan for helping your team do the same.
Topher Stephenson, Co-founder of CRE AI Studio