Trepp Unveils AI-Powered Search, Expanding its Capabilities to Enhance Commercial Real Estate Business
NEW YORK, Feb. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Trepp, a leading provider of data, insights, and technology solutions to the structured finance, commercial real estate (CRE), and banking markets, announced today the launch of new artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including AI search, a powerful feature designed to enhance how professionals navigate and extract insights from TreppCRE.
Trepp's AI Search uses a proprietary generative AI (GenAI)-based model to allow users to ask complex, natural-language questions and instantly retrieve relevant commercial property, loan, and financial data. This enhancement simplifies the search process, making it faster and more intuitive for CRE professionals to find assets that match their investment or lending criteria.
"Trepp has long been the industry's trusted source for market intelligence, and with AI Search, we're taking the next step in making our data more accessible and actionable," said Michael Holtzman, Chief Technology Officer at Trepp. "By integrating GenAI technology and machine learning, we are transforming the way our clients interact with our data – enhancing their efficiency and allowing them to access new opportunities, faster."
AI Search is just one of several next-generation AI tools Trepp has introduced to strengthen market analysis capabilities for CRE professionals. Alongside AI Search, Trepp has also developed:
AI-Powered Market Summary Chatbot – Quickly generates insights into any CRE market of interest.
Hand-Selected Sales Comps – Unlocks AI-driven property comparisons tailored to specific investment needs.
Income & Expense Comps – Allows for benchmarking of asset performance with AI-informed expense and revenue data.
Financial Proforma Modeling – Creates detailed financial projections by using advanced AI models to leverage rapid comps, property size and age, demographics, and location data.
"The evolution of AI in CRE is accelerating, and Trepp is at the forefront of delivering tools that drive smarter decision-making," said Lonnie Hendry, Chief Product Officer at Trepp. "These enhancements reflect our broader mission to blend Trepp's trusted data with state-of-the-art technology, to give our clients access to the tools they need to more effectively navigate today's real estate marketplace."
For more information on Trepp's AI solutions and to experience AI Search firsthand, visit http://www.trepp.com or request a demo here.
About TreppTrepp, founded in 1979, is the leading provider of data, insights, and technology solutions to the structured finance, commercial real estate, and banking markets. Trepp provides primary and secondary market participants with the solutions and analytics they need to increase operational efficiencies, information transparency, and investment performance. From its offices in New York, Dallas, and London, Trepp serves its clients with products and services to support trading, research, risk management, surveillance, and portfolio management. Trepp subsidiary, Commercial Real Estate Direct, is a daily news source covering the commercial real estate capital markets. Trepp is wholly owned by Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT).
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