Close deals.
Cash the cheques.
Buy the city.
Open your own brokerage with $100,000. Land the deals, cash the commission cheques, buy buildings, and sell them for the windfall. You have 10 years to become #1 in the city.
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Day one
Name yourself and your firm, and the sign goes up as you type. Hold to open the firm, and the phones start ringing.
How a career feels
Every call is a ticket to scratch. Most are misses. Then a 💎 premium lead turns up, and from Midtown on, the odd 🐋 whale. Pick an offer for your buyer, Lowball, Fair or Full ask, and the commission lands as a cheque you hold to deposit.
The Deal Sheet says it plainly: you put in this, it pays you that a month, and here's what the seller will probably say. Take the bank's loan, or later hard money or a private lender you've met, then hold to make the offer. The keys come at month end.
Run a business plan, lease it up, buy upgrades. Then refinance for tax-free cash, or sell and watch the windfall arrive as one big cheque. That's where fortunes come from.
A month in your career
You get a few actions a month. Calls, offers, plan steps and some upgrades spend them. When you're done, hold to end the month (on a desktop, click and then confirm).
Deals close, cheques arrive, the market moves. When a month makes the news, it opens on the front page of the Skyline Herald.
Grow into it
You start with the phones and one plan. Everything else opens as you go.
Business plans climb from a quick, sure Fix-Up to a full Redevelop. Bigger plans pay more and carry more risk: stages to fund, steps to work, and setbacks along the way. How business plans work
Fix-UpFrom the start
StabilizeFrom Associate
Value-AddFrom Senior Broker
Big Lease-UpFrom Managing Director
RepositionFrom Managing Director
RedevelopFrom PartnerMake it yours
Every asset type is a path. Close deals in it, buy it, finish plans on it, and it climbs from Bronze to Silver, Gold and Osmium, with a new title and a perk for that type at every level. Go deep and become the Apartment Mogul or the Logistics King. Career paths
Alone you can carry 2 listings and 2 buyer clients. When leads start waiting, hire listing coordinators and buyer's agents. Each takes a salary and a split, paid at month end. Your team
Trophy ladders for deals, buildings, plans and paths, plus missions that pay out when you finish them. Set House Rules once you own five buildings, so the small calls make themselves.
The 10-year race
Your score is your net worth when the decade is up, counted as what selling everything would actually pay.
Real estate that's actually real
Cap rates, NOI, loans and the bank's coverage test, escrow that goes wrong, refinancing, market cycles and rival brokers. A commercial real estate simulation simplified to fit a coffee break, never faked.
The 21 landmarks run from $62M to $250M, and Uptown's legend buildings open only to a City Legend.
What makes it commercial real estate
Commercial real estate is property bought for its income: office buildings, retail strips, warehouses and apartment buildings. In CRE Tycoon you play all four types, 275 buildings across 4 districts, from a $240K starter to $250M towers.
Every building is valued the way an appraiser would value it: a year of net operating income divided by a cap rate. When you buy, the bank lends up to 65% of the price and checks that the income covers the loan 1.20 times over. Lease a half-empty building up and its income rises, its value follows, and a cash-out refinance hands you the gain without selling. Sell instead and you pay selling costs and a capital-gains tax that falls the longer you've held, to 0% after 5 years.
You don't start rich. You start as a broker, finding buyers and sellers and earning commissions, with escrow problems that can sink a deal. Rival brokers chase the same bargains, interest rates drift, and the market runs from boom to distress and back. That's what makes it a commercial real estate game rather than a game with buildings in it.
Teaching? There's a free classroom lesson plan. Checking the numbers? Try the cap rate calculator.
The global leaderboard
Real careers, live. Your score is your net worth when your ten years are up.
Questions
A free commercial real estate game. You open your own brokerage, earn commission cheques, buy office, retail, industrial and multifamily buildings, run them up and sell them for the windfall. A 10-year career, scored on your net worth, in a race to be #1 in the city.
Yes, a simplified one. Buildings are valued from their income and a cap rate, loans have to pass the bank’s coverage test, escrow can fail, markets cycle, and selling costs and taxes come off the top. Months take minutes instead of a semester.
Yes. No ads, no purchases, nothing to unlock with money. You play in your browser.
No. Your career saves in your browser after every move. Sign in only if you want your score on the global leaderboard.
120 months: 10 years in the game. Play at your own pace: a few months in a coffee break, or the whole career in an evening.
Each promotion brings one new thing: skills, a new business plan, a 4th, 5th and 6th action, or a new district (Midtown at Broker, Port District at VP, Uptown at Principal). The rest is earned by doing it: close 3 deals and Lunch Meetings open, own 2 buildings and Networking Galas open, sell 3 listings and Standing Orders open. Each one arrives as an unlock card, at most one a month, and stays in your Playbook.
Yes. Big moments, like a huge cheque, the keys to a landmark or a Skyline Herald front page, have a Share button that makes a picture card and a link. Every year ends with your year, wrapped, and a finished career gets its own. A card shows your firm’s name, never yours.
It was built for phones first, and it has a full desktop layout too. Same career, either screen.
In the browser you play in: one career at a time, saved automatically. Clearing your browser data clears the career.
The ideas are: cap rates, NOI, loans and the bank’s coverage test, escrow trouble, refinancing, market cycles. Simplified so a month takes minutes, not a semester.
