Dealpath Connect: Building the capital markets exchange for the AI era

In commercial real estate, speed and precision win deals. Yet despite a decade of digitization, the way brokers distribute investment opportunities to institutional investors has barely changed — still driven by emails, PDFs, and phone calls. Billions in potential transactions sit buried in inboxes, unseen by the buyers most likely to transact. 

That changes with Dealpath Connect. 

As a JLL Spark portfolio company, Dealpath launched Connect with JLL Capital Markets as a launch partner: the first structured, real-time exchange purpose-built for institutional real estate listings. Alongside CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, and other leading brokerages representing roughly 65% of institutional market share, Connect delivers a direct feed of listings into the platforms where investors already evaluate and manage deals. 

From inbox chaos to digital dealmaking 

Connect augments ad hoc distribution with infrastructure for a premium distribution channel. Brokers publish once; listings flow directly into targeted buyers’ pipelines, automatically matched to their investment criteria. No attachments. No follow-up chasing. No deals lost to noise. 

For brokers, that means faster distribution to the right firms, richer engagement data — including why buyers pass — and smarter follow-up, without changing how listings are originated. 

For institutional investors, listings arrive pre-matched to buy boxes and enriched with AI. AI Screening generates instant market, tenant, and property insights. AI Comps benchmarks each listing against relevant transactions. Evaluation time drops from hours to minutes — freeing teams to underwrite the best opportunities instead of triaging the rest. 

The proof is in the pipeline 

Since launch, Connect has distributed nearly 19,000 listings. Engagement rates approach 60%, materially higher than traditional email distribution, and deals sourced through Connect are 2x more likely to progress to underwriting. 

Connect is integrated directly into Dealpath, the AI-powered operating system trusted by 300+ institutional firms and supporting more than $10 trillion in transactions. Teams work where they already manage deals, and stay ahead of the market rather than reacting to it. 

The Buttonwood Moment for Real Estate 

In 1792, 24 brokers signed an agreement under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street. That handshake became the NYSE, the infrastructure that organized a fragmented market into the most liquid capital market in the world. 

Dealpath Connect is laying that same foundation for institutional real estate. By uniting the leading global brokerages and institutional investors on a single structured network, we’re turning once-fragmented workflows into a connected, data-rich marketplace that benefits every participant, and setting the standard for how capital flows in the AI era. 

To learn more about Dealpath Connect and the future of digital deal sourcing and distribution, click here.