Work & OperationsDone with Claude Code Jun 14, 2026
Use Claude Code in a commercial real estate business
A commercial real estate developer and syndicator says Claude Code changed the game for their business workflow, with few specifics given.
- What They Did
- A solo commercial real estate developer said they moved from relying on third-party Argus analysts to building their own Excel underwriting models with Claude Code. They started with a single-tenant industrial DCF, expanded to multi-tenant industrial, and were adapting it for retail, using Claude Code to build logic for rent rolls, reimbursements, downtime, renewals, leasing assumptions, tenant improvements, commissions, debt, exits, and sensitivities.
- How It Went
- They said the models were approaching Argus-level flexibility and reliability for their deal types, and let them customize underwriting around their own process. The stated gain was speed: minutes instead of hours or days, though they said Argus may still matter for institutional, very large, or highly standardized work.
- Worth Knowing
- The catch is that this account gives no implementation detail beyond Excel plus Claude Code, so you would need strong underwriting judgment to validate the model yourself.
Try it yourself with Claude Code
I run a [type of business, e.g. commercial real estate development and syndication] business and keep my files in this folder: [folder path]. Look through them and pick one repetitive task such as [e.g. summarizing deal packages, building investor update drafts, or extracting rent roll data into a spreadsheet]. Build a script or workflow that does it, run it on one sample file, and show me the result and how to rerun it. Ask me before you modify or delete any of my existing files.