01BUILD MY BUY BOX
Buy Box Builder
Turns your goals, capital and experience into a one-page buy box you can share with agents.
In 2025, CBRE closed over $191B in property deals. We studied how they source, and turned it into 40 Claude skills across 8 sections: buy box, market signals, listings, off-market outreach, small deals, screening, pipeline and bidding.
Every skill is a full Claude prompt: a role, what to provide, the steps, what you get and the rules. Fill in the context document once and every skill works from your buy box.
INVESTOR NAME: [your name or company] WHAT I BUY: [asset types, e.g. small residential blocks, mixed-use, light industrial] WHERE I BUY: [cities, areas or postcodes] DEAL SIZE: [minimum to maximum purchase price] CAPITAL: [equity available and borrowing you can raise] RETURN HURDLE: [minimum net yield or total return] HOLD PERIOD: [e.g. 5 to 10 years] STRATEGY: [buy and hold, value-add, refurb, development] HARD EXCLUSIONS: [e.g. short leases, listed buildings, flying freeholds] SPEED: [typical days from offer to completion] ADVISORS: [solicitor, surveyor, broker] CURRENCY: [GBP, USD, EUR] TONE FOR OUTREACH: [e.g. warm, direct, formal]
Before you look at a single listing, write down exactly what you buy. Every other skill in this OS measures deals against this buy box.
How CBRE does itCBRE's Capital AI tracks capital by investor profile, bid activity, pricing and geography.
Turns your goals, capital and experience into a one-page buy box you can share with agents.
Works out the minimum yield or return a deal must hit, based on your capital and debt costs.
Compares buy-and-hold, value-add, development and income strategies against your profile.
Narrows a city or region down to the areas worth sourcing in, with reasons.
Writes the short profile agents and sellers read before they decide to send you deals.
The best deals show signals before they ever hit a portal. These skills turn the data you can access into an early-warning list.
How CBRE does itCapital AI analyses billions of CBRE data points to uncover hidden opportunities.
Reviews pasted listings, news and records for signs an owner may sell soon.
Turns listing history and sold prices into a clear view of where pricing is moving.
Flags properties showing distress, such as repeated reductions, auctions or long vacancy.
Reads planning applications and decisions you paste in and spots deal opportunities.
Spots ownership and company changes that often come before a sale.
Public deals still matter if you see them first and judge them fast. These skills turn portals, auctions and agent emails into one daily routine.
How CBRE does itCBRE Deal Flow brings 340+ new deals to market monthly, to 1.1M+ registered investors.
Turns the listings you paste in each day into a short list worth your time.
Designs saved searches and alerts across portals so the right deals reach you first.
Reads an auction catalogue and legal pack notes and flags the lots worth viewing.
Sorts the deal emails agents send you and drafts quick replies.
Checks one listing for gaps, inconsistencies and questions before you spend time on it.
Most of the best deals change hands through people who hear first. These skills build and work that network on purpose.
How CBRE does itCBRE has brokers in 100 countries, and handles a quarter of global investment sales.
Maps the agents, solicitors, lenders and owners who hear about deals first in your areas.
Writes respectful letters, emails and call scripts to owners who are not on the market.
Plans how to become the first buyer an agent calls.
Writes the pitch to solicitors, accountants and lenders who can refer deals.
Builds a 12-month follow-up plan so no owner or agent goes cold.
Big funds often skip smaller deals. That is where a private investor can move faster and win on certainty.
How CBRE does itCBRE set up a dedicated UK team just for deals of £10M or less.
Identifies smaller deals that bigger buyers usually overlook.
Plans how to beat bigger buyers on speed and certainty.
Spots portfolios that could be split into smaller parts that suit you.
Finds assets with short leases, odd layouts or small issues that put others off.
Writes approaches for smaller private owners who are not using agents.
Fast, consistent screening is how you look at more deals without drowning. Kill bad deals in minutes so good ones get your time.
How CBRE does itCBRE feeds its listings to Dealpath, where investment teams report screening 200%+ more relevant deals.
Gives a go, watch or kill verdict on one deal in minutes.
Lists every risk in a deal that could kill it later.
Scores a deal against your buy box so you can compare deals fairly.
Compares a deal's price and rent with the comparables you paste in.
Works back from your return hurdle to the most you should pay.
Once deals start coming, organisation wins. These skills keep every NDA, document and next step in one place.
How CBRE does itOn CBRE Deal Flow, more than one confidentiality agreement is signed every minute.
Writes a professional request for the NDA and information pack.
Lists the clauses to check in an NDA before you sign.
Lists every document you need from the seller for this type of deal.
Summarises leases, reports and packs into the facts that matter.
Keeps one tracker of every live deal, its stage and next step.
Sellers are getting better at finding buyers, so your offer has to stand out on more than price.
How CBRE does itCBRE estimates Capital AI can expand bidder pools by up to 20%.
Works out who else is likely bidding and what they care about.
Designs offer options beyond price, such as speed, deposit and conditions.
Writes a clear, credible offer letter.
Prepares your position, concessions and walk-away before you negotiate.
Learns from deals you lost so the next bid is sharper.
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