Blackstone’s Digital Infrastructure Trust (NYSE: BXDC) priced $1.75B at $20 / share on 2026-05-13 and began NYSE trading 2026-05-14, against a publicly disclosed $25B AI-purpose-built CRE pipeline.
Anuj Kadyan stepped into the CBRE CTO seat in early 2026 from a McKinsey Partner role leading the firm's enterprise technology and AI practice. The 90-day discovery he will run inside the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm is the…
Healthcare has FHIR. Banking has Plaid. Web platforms have OpenAPI. Commercial real estate has BACnet (1995), Modbus (1979), LonWorks (1991), KNX (1990), and OPC UA — five overlapping standards, none of them a unified application layer, and a…
Through Q1 2026, sensor fusion in commercial buildings has crossed an architectural line. Vendors that used to bolt WiFi, BLE, and CO₂ feeds onto their primary hardware are now shipping them as native fusion sources — managed inside one platform…
Companion piece to the AI-HVAC Implementation Guidebook . The Guidebook stays vendor-neutral and shows the 7-step pilot-to-production path. This piece runs in its own BACnet/IoT pillar — it explains why that 7-step path is unusually hard in CRE, and…
PropTech venture capital just executed one of the cleanest sector rotations in recent memory — from "AI assists humans" to "AI does the work." In January 2026 alone, the sector pulled in roughly $1.7 billion (up 176% YoY), and Q1 2026's $281M across…
The launch of a 1000+ member AI skills course inside the CRE practitioner community is not a feature signal — it is a market verdict on the deployment gap. PwC pegs the production-deployment rate of CRE AI pilots at 5%.
For two decades, IPMVP Option D — calibrated simulation — was the protocol no banker would accept. Too many knobs, too much modeller discretion, no clean counterfactual.
Filed against the May 2026 CMBS-distress headlines. The short version: a Class-A coastal stock with AI-tenant inquiry is not a distressed asset — it's a retrofit opportunity that needs a different MEP profile.