CapitalStack: Introducing the AI Lab
A weekly series on the AI tools and workflows reshaping real estate capital raising — starting with how to build an investor database in hours, not weeks.
Real Estate Investment
132 articles
The Moneyball Playbook for Multifamily Development
A data-driven approach to unit mix, layouts, amenities, and marketing helped one Gowanus Wharf project lease faster and at higher rents in a crowded market
Deep Dive: CERES & Culinary-Centric Residential Communities
How CERES is bringing the European “gourmet cluster” model to U.S. residential development, with food and culinary culture at the center of daily life
Deep Dive: Algoma
For decades, feasibility analysis has been the bottleneck that kept real estate developers from moving faster. Algoma has built a platform designed to fix that.
Why AI Has Struggled to Break Into Mortgage Lending
Stacks of documents, repetitive workflows, and massive economics make mortgage lending an obvious target for AI, but adoption has been slow.
The Thesis Driven Innovation 100, 2026 | #1–15
Meet the 100 people shaping the future of the built world, Part III
Deep Dive: Ludlow Property Group & Self-Storage in America's Leisure Towns
Inside self-storage's most overlooked opportunity
The Thesis Driven Innovation 100, 2026 | #50–16
Meet the 100 people shaping the future of the built world, Part II
Deep Dive: Angeleno & Affordable Housing Development in Los Angeles
How Angeleno is structuring deals and executing projects in a market where affordable housing is notoriously difficult to build
Why Great Buildings Still Struggle to Lease
What marketing and leasing audits reveal about multifamily's hidden performance problem
Deep Dive: Madison International
Backing both the real estate and the operating businesses of middle-market real estate companies