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Day 15 · 30 Prompts in 30 Days

4 real estatestrategies to knowbefore investing.

Every property investment is one of four shapes. Core, Core Plus, Value-Add, or Opportunistic. Each shape fits a different kind of investor. Knowing which one fits you is the first decision. Knowing which one a deal is, is the second. Two prompts pasted into Claude do both.

The four shapes

Big property funds sort every deal they look at into one of four categories before they buy. Each one suits a different kind of investor. There is no good or bad category, only the one that fits what you actually want.

Core · for income, low risk, capital preservation

A completed building in a proven area, fully let, throwing off rent from day one. Fits an investor who wants steady cash flow and minimal volatility. Lower return ceiling. You sleep at night.

Core Plus · for income plus moderate growth

Completed, leased, but in a community that is still maturing. Rent today, capital growth as the area builds out. Fits an investor who wants cash flow but doesn't want to leave growth on the table.

Value-Add · for outsized returns, hands-on

An older or underperforming building you actively improve. Renovate, reposition, push the rent. Fits an investor who has time, contractor relationships, and project-management bandwidth. The return is in the work you do.

Opportunistic · for pure growth, long horizon

Off-plan, pre-infrastructure, or in a brand new masterplan. No income for years. Fits an investor with a long time horizon who is comfortable carrying construction, developer, and timing risk. Maximum upside, real chance of slippage.

The classifier scores every property in your list against these four shapes. Whether you are weighing your first deal, comparing two opportunities, or making sense of what you already own, you finish with a name on every property and a clear read on what kind of investor each one fits.

What you're building

The end result

One Claude conversation. You paste two things, Claude renders a dashboard. Every property scored, every property labelled, and a one-line note on the kind of investor each one fits. All on one page you can screenshot or send to a partner.

What you need

Claude Pro. $20/mo. The free tier runs the prompts but the inline artefact is less polished. Pro is the right tier.

Anything you want classified. A single deal you are weighing up, two opportunities you are choosing between, or your existing properties. One row per property, basic facts only.

Ten minutes. Five to pull the list together. Two for the prompts. Three for Claude to render.

Heads up

The classifier scores the building, not your financing. Leverage is deliberately out of the framework. The same villa is the same villa whether you paid cash or borrowed 75 percent of it. Track leverage separately on your own spreadsheet.

Step 01 · Setup

One prompt. The framework encoded.

The classifier scores each property on three things: where the building sits in its life cycle, where the return actually comes from, and how much work you have to do. Each one gets a 1 to 4. The highest score is the category. Paste this prompt into a fresh Claude chat. Claude reads the rubric, confirms in one line, and waits for your list.

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The framework · The first prompt

The classifier. Three dimensions, one rule, one design directive.

Paste once into a fresh chat. Claude reads it and waits. Don't paste the portfolio yet, that's the next step.

Prompt · setup
Classify a property portfolio using this 3-dimension framework. Score each property 1 to 4 on each dimension, then assign the category of the highest score. Asset stage 1: completed and tenanted in a prime established area 2: completed in a maturing community 3: completed but underperforming or needs renovation 4: off-plan or pre-infrastructure Source of return 1: mostly rental income 2: income plus moderate growth 3: growth from active improvement 4: pure future appreciation Execution 1: passive hold 2: light management 3: active renovation or repositioning 4: construction or developer risk Categories: 1 = Core, 2 = Core Plus, 3 = Value-Add, 4 = Opportunistic. Render a single HTML artefact with: - A horizontal risk-return bar plotting each property under its category - An allocation donut by capital invested, with reference range Core 40 to 60 percent, Core Plus 15 to 25 percent, Value-Add 15 to 25 percent, Opportunistic 5 to 15 percent - A card per property: three scores, the driving dimension, the kind of investor this property fits (one line, e.g. "fits an investor who wants steady income with low volatility"), and a one-line action - A table grouped by category Don't invent figures. Mark n/a if a field is missing. Cite the signal behind each score. Design: cream #E8DFD0 background, Instrument Serif headings, Satoshi body, JetBrains Mono numbers, italic burgundy #3E1F1F emphasis. Editorial, generous spacing, no gradients. Portfolio next.
Why two prompts, not one

Splitting the framework and the data lets you reuse the setup. You can run multiple portfolios in the same chat, each with a different paste in the second message. The framework is the operating system. The portfolio is what you load into it.

Don't skip the design line

The last paragraph of the prompt locks the look. Without it, Claude defaults to a dark-mode dashboard that doesn't match anything else you make. The design directive is what makes it look like yours, not Claude's.

Step 02 · Your list

One paste. Your properties in a table.

Send a list of whatever you want classified. One deal, two options, or twenty existing holdings. Use the structure below, fill in one row per property.

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The list · The second prompt

Your properties. One row each.

Send this right after Claude confirms the setup. Fill in one row per property. Claude classifies every row and renders the dashboard.

Prompt · list
Here is my list. Market: [your market]. All values in [your currency]. | # | Property | Status | Year acquired or launched | Purchase price | Current value est. | Annual rent | Annual costs | Strategy note | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | [property name or short description] | [held / considering] | [year or launch + handover] | [price] | [current value, or n/a] | [annual rent, or n/a] | [annual costs, or n/a] | [one line on what you intend to do with it] | | 2 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | Add one row per property. Held assets, opportunities you are considering, or both. Leave any field blank if you don't have it. Then classify each property, render the dashboard, and call out any property where the three dimensions split significantly.
Partial data is fine

No current valuation? Leave it blank. Not sure what the rent would be after a renovation? Leave it blank. Claude flags the missing field and still classifies the property from what is there. Your first paste is fine. Your second one will be sharper.

Step 03 · Dashboard

One artefact. Everything on one page.

Claude renders the dashboard inline in the chat. A risk-return bar with every property plotted, an allocation donut against the reference range used by big funds, a card per property with the three scores and the kind of investor it fits, and a comparison table grouped by category.

Ask Claude to re-classify with a different assumption (say, "what changes if I don't renovate this one") and the dashboard updates in place.

What it costs

One subscription. That's it.

No MCPs, no plugins, no third-party tools to wire up. Two prompts and a dashboard rendered in the chat.

Claude
Pro

$20/mo. The right tier for this. Cleaner artefact rendering than the free plan, and enough message room to re-classify with different assumptions without hitting a limit.

Free tier
$0

Runs both prompts. The dashboard is less polished and you'll burn through the daily limit fast if you iterate. Fine for one classification a month.

Time
10m

Five minutes to pull your portfolio together. Two minutes for the prompts. Three for Claude to render. Faster on the second run because you've already got the paste.

The honest bit

What the classifier does not do.

The framework names the shape. It does not tell you which deal to buy. Three things you still own.

i.

It does not check the price.

An Opportunistic deal at the right price is a winner. Same deal at twice the price is a disaster. This sorts strategy. It does not underwrite. Before you wire anything, run the deal through Day 14 (IC-style underwrite), Day 9 (off-plan), or Day 11 (comparables).

ii.

The category depends on your plan.

A villa is Value-Add because you said you would renovate it. Drop the renovation and it shifts to Core Plus. Change what you intend to do with the property and the category changes too. The "what would move this up or down" line on every card names the lever.

iii.

Leverage isn't in here.

The classifier scores the building, not your mortgage. Two buyers holding the same Core apartment at zero and 75 percent LTV are running totally different risk books. Track leverage on your own spreadsheet.

The workflow

How this stacks.

Day 13 watches what you already own. Day 14 underwrites every new acquisition. Day 15 sorts both into the same four-style framework so you know which playbook applies. The classifier sits in front of the underwriting, not after it.

The workflow

Day 15 sorts the strategy. Day 14 underwrites the price.

A Core deal goes through the IC stack to check rent and exit cap rate. An Opportunistic deal goes through the same stack, but you weight handover risk, developer track record, and infrastructure timing harder than yield. The category sets the question. The underwriting answers it. Same operating system, three different days, every property held to the same standard.

What "done" looks like

Every property in the portfolio has a category and a number.

The first-run vision

Two prompts. One dashboard. The whole portfolio sorted.

Ten minutes in, you've got a risk-return spectrum, an allocation donut against the institutional benchmark, a card for every property with its scores and a one-line action, and a table grouped by category. Paste a new acquisition into the same chat and watch the dashboard re-render with the new property in it.

The portfolio review stops starting with "is this a good deal?". It starts with "where does this land, and what does that mean for what we already hold?". That's the shift Day 15 ships.

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Where this builds from

Day 14 · Train Claude to think like an Investment Committee.

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Classify the portfolio you already own.

You don't need a live deal to try this. Paste in what you already hold, look at where it lands, and see what the dashboard says about your concentration. The spreadsheet has probably been hiding it.

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