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The CRE newsletter your broker secretly reads on Sunday night.

The Upleg is a commercial real estate publication for people who buy property with real money and real deadlines. It is written by a real broker. It is edited by nobody important. It goes out every week whether or not the 10-year is cooperating.

Why this exists

There are plenty of commercial real estate newsletters. Most of them read like a press release wrote a press release about another press release. Nobody swears. Nobody admits that a deal is bad. Nobody names the tenant that's about to vacate.

The Upleg exists because the average CRE investor — the actual person wiring the actual money — deserves a weekly read that treats them like an adult. Someone who knows what a cap rate is, what a QI does, and what happens when you miss day 45.

So that's what we do. Once a week, an email with the deals worth paying attention to, the market note worth finishing, and one off-market pocket listing from the network. During the week, a site full of snarky guides and real CRE news, updated by humans who would rather not use the word "synergy."

If you have a 1031 exchange open right now, you are a little desperate. That's fine. We're built for you.

Who writes this

The Upleg is written by Glen Gomez-Meade — a licensed real estate broker and commercial real estate professional who currently serves as Vice President of Acquisitions and Asset Management for a commercial real estate family office.

Glen started from the bottom — literally property management — and worked his way up through every role on the transaction stack. Over a ten-year career he's sat on every side of the deal: landlord, tenant, broker, buyer, seller, and principal. That full-spectrum experience is the reason this publication treats 1031 exchanges, cap rate math, NNN leases, and DST offerings with a level of skepticism you don't usually find in brand-safe CRE content.

He has successfully navigated dozens of 1031 exchanges across retail, industrial, multifamily, and DST structures. The Upleg is, in large part, the working-broker field notes from those deals — cleaned up and written down.

He is licensed. He represents real clients on real deals. If you reply to a newsletter, that reply lands in an inbox he reads, usually too early in the morning.

Everything on the site is written with the assumption that you're smart, busy, and a little skeptical. We try to be correct first and funny second.

What you'll get

  • A Featured Deal, every week.

    One deal, analyzed like a friend would analyze it. Tenant, cap rate, lease term, the stuff nobody else spells out.

  • The Deal Grid.

    5–7 quick-hit listings across asset classes. Scannable, sortable, honest about quality.

  • One Pocket Listing.

    Off-market. From the network. Actually off-market, not "call me for pricing" off-market.

  • The Market Note.

    One short, sharp take on what's moving rates, cap rates, or the general mood.

  • A Guide, when we write one.

    The site is a stack of CRE explainers — built to be useful on day 32 of a 45-day clock.

What you won't get

  • A 20-email welcome sequence.
  • A course called "The 1031 Blueprint™."
  • AI-written market summaries with three em-dashes per sentence.
  • A webinar. Ever. For any reason.
  • A paid tier we haven't built yet.
  • Advice. (Nothing here is investment, tax, or legal advice. Go talk to a QI, a CPA, and an attorney.)

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