JF 3889: AI In Acquisitions ft. Paul Hopkins, Perry Zheng, Lance Pederson and Bo Barron

On this episode of the Best Ever CRE Show, Joe Fairless interviews AI-savvy investors Paul Hopkins, Perry Zheng, Lance Pederson, and Bo Barron to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping commercial real estate acquisitions. The panel shares practical tools—like Google’s Notebook LM, ChatGPT, AI21, and Claude—and strategies for deal analysis, underwriting, parsing PDFs, and even creating custom GPTs to automate offering memorandum reviews. They discuss how AI streamlines market research, transforms spreadsheets into semantic data, and helps underwrite deals more accurately and efficiently, while also acknowledging its limits in replacing human decision-making and deal sourcing relationships.

Paul Hopkins

• COO and Partner
• https://cpicapital.ca/

Perry Zheng

• Founder and CEO
• https://www.cashflowportal.com/

Lance Pederson

• CEO and Co-Founder
• https://www.passiveadvantage.com/

Bo Barron

• CEO
• https://barroncommercial.com/

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