Artificial Intelligence is commercial real estate’s next operating system.
Inside the Bisnow newsroom, we’ve spent the better part of three years excavating how this technology is quietly — and in some corners dramatically — reshaping the multitrillion-dollar commercial real estate industry.
Underwriting that once took days now happens in minutes. Feasibility studies that dragged on for weeks now run in seconds. And operational efficiencies are already lifting NOI by double digits in some cases.
That’s why we built this AI Power List: The Ultimate Guide to 123 Firms Reshaping Commercial Real Estate.
The companies here range from global platforms retooling how capital moves through the system to scrappy boutiques solving hyperspecific problems on the front lines of leasing, operations and development.
You’ve already felt some of what’s in these pages, even if you didn’t know AI was behind that tenant outreach, lease comp analysis or energy bill. The surprises? Software modeling climate risk parcel by parcel, algorithms predicting permitting delays, and tools generating entire building layouts in the time it takes to refresh your inbox.
With new tools being released daily, who has time to sift through all of it — let alone stay on top of every announcement of tech that you should be aware of, evaluating or even working with?
We did the work, so you don’t have to. This power list is intended to cut through the hype and surface the companies that are actually moving the needle in CRE.
What we’ve all seen so far is only the first inning. AI has a full game ahead to reshape how this industry runs. This list is your field guide to the wins already happening, so don't treat it like a curiosity.
Treat it like a playbook. Use it to benchmark, to pilot, to partner — because the future of CRE is already being built by the companies on these pages.
— Mark F. Bonner, Bisnow Editor-in-Chief