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Acquisition Underwriting Engine

Full-cycle acquisition underwriting engine. Takes a deal package (rent roll, T-12, OM, financing terms) and produces institutional-quality output: T-12 normalization, 10-year proforma, Linneman cap rate decomposition, probability-weighted scenarios, replacement cost analysis, and go/no-go recommendation. Triggers on 'underwrite this deal', 'build an acquisition model', or 'run the numbers on this property'.

What this skill does

Acquisition Underwriting Engine is an A.CRE Intelligence Hub skill that gives your AI agent the analyst-grade workflow a senior commercial real estate professional would run. Full-cycle acquisition underwriting engine. Takes a deal package (rent roll, T-12, OM, financing terms) and produces institutional-quality output: T-12 normalization, 10-year proforma, Linneman cap rate decomposition, probability-weighted scenarios, replacement cost analysis, and go/no-go recommendation. Triggers on 'underwrite this deal', 'build an acquisition model', or 'run the numbers on this property'. Full-cycle acquisition underwriting engine. Takes a deal package rent roll, T-12, OM, financing terms and produces institutional-quality output: T-12 normalization, 10-year proforma, Linneman cap rate decomposition, probability-weighted scenarios, replacement cost analysis, and go/no-go recommendation. Triggers on 'underwrite this deal', 'build an acquisition model', or 'run the numbers on this property'.

How you'll use it

"Use the Acquisition Underwriting Engine skill"

Say something like this to your AI agent in the Hub, Claude, or ChatGPT to activate this skill.

What you give it / What you get back

You give it

  • a deal package (rent roll
  • T-12
  • OM
  • financing terms

You get back

  • institutional-quality output: T-12 normalization
  • 10-year proforma
  • Linneman cap rate decomposition
  • probability-weighted scenarios
  • replacement cost analysis
  • go/no-go recommendation

Skill activation rules

Detailed routing logic, prompts the skill responds to, and operational guardrails as documented by the author.

Full-cycle acquisition underwriting engine. Takes a deal package (rent roll, T-12, OM, financing terms) and produces institutional-quality output: T-12 normalization, 10-year proforma, Linneman cap rate decomposition, probability-weighted scenarios, replacement cost analysis, and go/no-go recommendation. Triggers on 'underwrite this deal', 'build an acquisition model', or 'run the numbers on this property'.

What's inside

Acquisition Underwriting Engine

You are a senior acquisitions analyst at an institutional real estate investment firm. You specialize in building comprehensive underwriting models for single-asset and portfolio acquisitions across core, core-plus, value-add, and opportunistic…

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Acquisition Underwriting Engine

You are a senior acquisitions analyst at an institutional real estate investment firm. You specialize in building comprehensive underwriting models for single-asset and portfolio acquisitions across core, core-plus, value-add, and opportunistic strategies. Given deal inputs, you produce a complete set of normalized financials, multi-year proforma, valuation analysis, scenario modeling, and a go/no-go recommendation.

When to Activate

  • User has a deal package and needs full acquisition underwriting beyond a quick screen
  • User provides property details, purchase price, financing terms, rent roll, and/or T-12 operating statement
  • User explicitly requests "underwrite this deal," "build an acquisition model," or "run the numbers on this property"
  • Automatically invoked after a KEEP verdict from deal-quick-screen when the user requests deeper analysis
  • Do NOT trigger for quick screening (use deal-quick-screen) or OM-specific pricing analysis (use…

Full instructions and any reference files ship in the .skill bundle.

Bundle structure
acquisition-underwriting-engine/
├── SKILL.md                        # Required: instructions + metadata
└── references/                     # Optional: documentation
    ├── proforma-construction.md    # 12.3 KB
    ├── scenario-weighting.md       # 11.1 KB
    └── t12-normalization-guide.md  # 11.0 KB

Who built it

With contributions from Avi Hacker.

How to run it

Not in the Hub? Download the .skill bundle above and follow the A.CRE skills install guide → to load it into Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other agent that supports skills.

Already in the Hub. If you're an AI.Edge Pro or A.CRE Accelerator member, this skill is bundled into the A.CRE Intelligence Hub direct connector (MCP server) — just ask your agent.

About this skill

Third-Party skill. This skill is redistributed under the Apache-2.0 license and is not authored or endorsed by Adventures in CRE. Use is governed by the upstream license and the original creator's terms. Original attribution: Mario Urquia (link) and contributors (Avi Hacker).