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How To Create a Market Overview

Updated over 2 weeks ago

A strong understanding of the local market is essential for any real estate deal. Instead of manually researching demographics, nearby employers, or city insights, IntellCRE automatically generates a polished, AI-driven Market Overview the moment you create a deal. This gives you a professional, data-backed narrative you can customize and include in brochures, OMs, and property websites—all with just a few clicks.


What Is the Market Overview?

The Market Overview is an automatically generated report that pulls together key demographic and market insights for your property. It includes:

  • City overview & lifestyle descriptions

  • Demographic highlights and core metrics

  • Age distribution, interests, and quality-of-life data

  • Employment information and top employers

  • Radius metrics

  • Asset-type-specific insights (multifamily, retail, self-storage, etc.)

IntellCRE sources the data and uses AI to produce a clean, professional summary designed to fit seamlessly into your marketing materials. And every piece of it is fully editable.


Step 1: Accessing the Market Overview

  1. Open your deal in IntellCRE.

  2. In the left-hand Property Menu, click Market Overview.

  3. You’ll see the automatically generated report based on your selected geography:

    • MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area): Best for larger markets with more robust data

    • Incorporated Place: Ideal for smaller, more localized regions

Choose whichever view best represents your deal’s location.


Step 2: Editing & Customizing the Market Overview

All content is fully customizable. You can revise text, replace images, edit numbers, or regenerate any section.

City Overview

  • Edit the title, city name, and descriptive text

  • Upload and reposition your own hero image

  • Regenerate sections using AI Generate Description

Demographics

  • Modify demographic highlights

  • Change population, households, income, or age metrics

  • Add rows or update source notes

Lifestyle & Quality-of-Life Sections

  • Add or remove interest groups

  • Adjust descriptions to fit the story you want to tell

Employment & Employers

  • Use the system-generated employer map

  • Add or edit major employers

  • Update employment metrics and industries

Radius-Based Metrics

  • View or edit 1-, 3-, and 5-mile population and household data

  • Use auto-selected asset-type-specific metrics (traffic counts, quality-of-life, etc.)


Step 3: Saving a Custom Market Overview

If you’ve created a version you want to reuse for future deals:

  1. Click Save as New Configuration

  2. Name your template (e.g., “Atlanta – Multifamily Template”)

  3. Select your saved configuration for future properties whenever needed

This is ideal for teams that want consistency across similar markets or asset types.


Step 4: Using Market Overviews in Brochures

When creating an Offering Memorandum or marketing brochure:

  1. Click Create Brochure in your deal.

  2. In the list of sections, enable Market Overview.

  3. The system will automatically pull in:

    • City Overview

    • Demographics

    • Top Employers

    • Employment Metrics

    • Radius data

    • Any custom configuration you’ve applied

Everything is formatted automatically, so your brochure emerges polished, branded, and ready to share.


That’s It!

With just a few steps, you can take advantage of IntellCRE’s AI-driven Market Overview to quickly produce professional, data-rich market content. Access it, tailor it to your needs, save reusable templates, and seamlessly include it in your deal presentations.

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