EstateWise

AI that knows its way around the block.

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Inspiration

CBRE manages millions of properties, assets, and transactions globally, but much of the information lives in unstructured formats like PDFs, reports, and contracts.
We were inspired to build EstateWise AI to help real estate professionals and everyday users quickly access and trust this data.

A personal experience motivated us further: one of our teammate’s family is looking to purchase a space for her bakery. The process of analyzing potential locations, evaluating costs, and predicting profitability highlighted how timely, actionable insights can make or break a real estate decision. We wanted to bring that same clarity and confidence to any property decision — for both businesses and CBRE professionals.

What it does

EstateWise AI transforms raw property and market data into actionable insights. Key features include:

  • Document Intelligence: Parses reports, leases, and financial data to extract key metrics like occupancy, rent, and energy costs.
  • Smart Search: Users can query natural-language questions such as:
    > "Which properties in Dallas are suitable for a small bakery and have high foot traffic?"
    > "Which leases expire next quarter?"
  • Predictive Analytics: Identifies potential risks, such as properties likely to underperform due to market trends or operational inefficiencies.
  • Insight Summarizer: Generates dashboards that visualize financial readiness, market conditions, and predictive trends for informed decision-making.

For example, our predictive scoring model computes a location score (L) for a business property:

$$ L = w_1 \cdot \text{FootTraffic} + w_2 \cdot \text{RentAffordability} + w_3 \cdot \text{CompetitionDensity} $$

where (w_1, w_2, w_3) balance operational, financial, and market factors.

How we built it

  • Frontend: Next.js (React) with Tailwind CSS for a responsive, interactive dashboard.
  • Backend: FastAPI handles APIs and property dataset processing.
  • AI/NLP: Language models parse documents, summarize reports, and answer natural-language queries.
  • Authentication: Auth0 ensures secure login and role-based access.
  • Data: Simulated CBRE-style datasets, including financial metrics, property performance, and market data, for demonstration purposes.

Multi-step forms and dashboards guide users through evaluating properties, analyzing metrics, and making informed decisions — whether for a large commercial portfolio or a single bakery location.

Challenges we ran into

  • Parsing unstructured data: Extracting meaningful insights from leases, PDFs, and reports.
  • Natural-language querying: Mapping user questions to the correct datasets reliably.
  • Designing clear dashboards: Ensuring insights are actionable and understandable at a glance.
  • Integrating AI into a full-stack app: Coordinating Next.js, FastAPI, and AI inference efficiently.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Built a working prototype AI assistant that analyzes properties and market trends.
  • Designed dashboards and query interfaces suitable for analysts, managers, and individual users like small business owners.
  • Successfully demonstrated how EstateWise AI could help our teammate’s family identify an ideal bakery location, highlighting real-world usefulness.
  • Created predictive scoring and document intelligence features on simulated datasets to model CBRE-scale data challenges.

What we learned

  • How to leverage NLP and AI for unstructured property data.
  • Best practices for visualizing complex datasets for both professional and personal decision-making.
  • Integrating AI-powered insights securely into a full-stack web application.
  • The importance of explainable AI, so users understand why an insight or prediction is made.

What's next for EstateWise

  • Integrate real CBRE property and market datasets for live, location-specific insights.
  • Expand AI predictive analytics to forecast market trends, property value risks, and operational inefficiencies.
  • Improve document intelligence to automatically parse leases, contracts, and sustainability reports.
  • Add role-based dashboards for analysts, property managers, and individual investors.
  • Deploy EstateWise AI as a production-ready assistant, helping CBRE teams and everyday users make faster, smarter, and more confident real estate decisions.
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