About the firm.
CRE360 is a commercial real estate intelligence firm. We produce the analysis institutional capital, experienced operators, and their lenders commission before a decision is made.
Who we are.
CRE360 was founded on a specific observation about how commercial real estate decisions actually get made.
The data industry has solved the benchmark problem. CoStar, Moody's, CREXi, and every market study firm produce clean, standardized market data — rent benchmarks, occupancy averages, cap rate ranges, absorption numbers. A sophisticated underwriter can pull all of it in an afternoon. But benchmarks are inputs, not decisions. The gap every underwriter actually faces is translating those benchmarks into reality — walking the submarket, hearing the 65% occupancy claim from one operator and the 59% from another, and having the operator-grade judgment to tell the decision-maker what the real number is and what it means for the deal.
That translation layer is what CRE360 produces. On the research side, it's the operator-calibrated read behind every report we deliver. On the advisory side, it's one point of contact — the senior voice you hired is the senior voice that delivers the work, start to finish. No research queue, no junior analyst executing under a partner's name, no translation layer between the engagement lead and the deliverable.
The firm is privately held. We also publish CRE360signal, a daily briefing read across email and social by more than 40,000 professionals across the industry. Clients retain us because the work reflects the same underwriting standard we apply to our own capital.
Brokers, investors, developers, and lenders open CRE 360 Signal™ every morning — making it one of the most-read independent CRE briefings in the market.
Free. Independent. Editorially separate from advisory engagements.
CRE 360 Signal™ — The Daily Briefing
CRE 360 Signal™ is our daily commercial real estate intelligence briefing. Delivered every morning, it synthesizes the most important market signals across capital markets, multifamily, industrial, office, retail, and hospitality — pulled from CoStar, CBRE, JLL, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, and 20+ leading sources.
The newsletter is free, independent, and editorially separate from CRE360 Advisory's client work.
The practice.
Reports. Commissioned research products delivered as written work product. Master feasibility, underwriting review, property due diligence, broker opinions of value, and custom market research. Each report has a defined scope, fixed starting fee, and delivery timeline.
Advisory. Senior engagement work for decisions that don't fit a single deliverable. Development advisory, acquisition advisory, 1031 exchange advisory, and expert testimony for counsel. Retainer and project-based.
Research. CRE360signal publishes daily to the industry. The briefing is editorially separate from the firm's advisory work.
Core Values.
Clarity over volume.
We deliver what the decision requires, not what fills a deck.
Judgment, not opinion.
Every engagement closes with a position — what to do, what to watch, what to walk away from.
The client's problem, not the industry's consensus.
Our work is built around the decision in front of you, not what the market is saying about it.
Clients.
Our engagements span U.S. markets, asset classes, and transaction types. Typical mandates include:
- Institutional and private investors — commissioning intelligence ahead of acquisitions or capital commitments.
- Developers and sponsors — testing feasibility, validating costs, structuring capital stacks, and managing execution across multifamily, hospitality, industrial, and mixed-use.
- Lenders — commissioning third-party feasibility, property-level diligence, and underwriting validation.
- Family offices and legal counsel — evaluating direct exposure, co-GP structures, and expert analysis on CRE disputes.
What makes our work different.
Direct practice.
CRE360's analysis is shaped by active commercial real estate experience — underwriting, construction, and development work on institutional-grade projects across multifamily, hospitality, industrial, and mixed-use. The firm's perspective reflects the market as it actually executes, not as it looks in a model.
Owner-side perspective.
CRE360 approaches every engagement from the position of the party whose capital, timeline, or reputation is at stake. Our analysis is structured around the decision the client has to make — not the transaction someone else is trying to close — and the standard we apply is the one we apply to our own deals.
A dual vantage point.
CRE360 works from two vantage points most advisory firms don't combine: the continuous market observation behind a daily research publication, and the direct underwriting and execution work of an active commercial real estate practice. The engagements we deliver are shaped by both inputs simultaneously — the macro read and the deal-level detail.
Leadership.
Omid Shahbazian
Omid Shahbazian is the founder of CRE360 and editor of CRE360signal. His background spans commercial real estate development, construction management, and engineering, with active roles across hospitality, multifamily, industrial, and mixed-use projects. Before founding the firm, Omid served as Chief Operating Officer of a development and construction company, and has led direct oversight on institutional-grade commercial projects across the U.S.
What we follow.
Capital Markets
Cap rate movement, transaction volume, debt market signals, lender behavior across CMBS, agency, bank, and private credit.
Construction & Development
Cost trends, labor and materials, supply chain, entitlement signals, development feasibility shifts.
Asset Classes
Multifamily, industrial, office, retail, hospitality, healthcare, mixed-use — with weekly deep dives by sector.
Macro Signals
Fed policy, employment, demographics, housing supply, inflation, and the macro variables that move CRE pricing.
Read the briefing 40,000+ CRE professionals read every morning.
Free. Independent. Daily.
Contact.
Send us the project, deal, or matter in front of you. A member of the firm will respond within two business days with next steps and, where appropriate, a written scope.