What's Happening in Local Land Use | Q2 2026
Tracking three months of notable land use and zoning decisions with Shovels Decisions
Workshops & Courses
Real estate workshops and courses taught by Thesis Driven for operators, investors and vendors. Topics span capital raising and investor outreach, underwriting and financial modeling, OpCo/PropCo structuring, AI across operations and development, asset classes from data centers to student housing to rural land, and selling technology and services into the real estate industry.
80 articles
New Workshop: Build Your Investor Deck with Claude
A live one-hour session on turning your investor deck into a reusable Claude workflow you keep
Doing Conferences the Right Way: A Tactical Workshop
Get ready for conference season with a 90-minute session on picking shows, prep, on-site execution, and follow-up
Structuring an OpCo/PropCo Business Workshop
A live two-hour workshop on structuring and raising capital for real estate operating companies plus their underlying assets
AI for Real Estate Acquisitions
We've been building AI acquisitions agents with real estate GPs. On August 13, we're opening the hood in a live 2-hour workshop
How to Raise Capital from Family Offices and RIAs
Private wealth has passed the institutional market, and most sponsors have no idea how to reach it. A workshop on raising from family offices and RIAs.
Workshop: Raising Capital from Large LPs
The hard part of raising institutional capital isn't the pitch. It's that a pension allocator, an
Structuring Real Estate Joint Ventures
A workshop for GPs on finding the right JV partner, structuring the deal, and negotiating operator-friendly terms
Brand Building for GPs
A workshop for GPs to build brands that attract today's investors, taught by No Walls Studio
Building Your AI Capital Markets Agent
We've been building AI capital markets agents with real estate GPs. On June 26, we're opening the hood in a live 2-hour workshop.
New Workshop: Selling Into the Real Estate Industry
For seven years at Common, I sold real estate owners and developers on two things they had every reason to
New Workshop: AI in Capital Raising
A live 2-hour workshop on using AI to source investors, build outreach campaigns, and produce institutional-grade materials
New Workshop: C-PACE: Redefining CRE Capital Stacks
C-PACE used to live at the edge of the capital stack. A niche tool for energy retrofits, small-ticket