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Real Estate Financial Modeling Accelerator (Updated April 2024)

Prior to launching the Accelerator program, Michael and I fielded email after email requesting a more structured real estate financial modeling training program on the site. Over the years, we've covered hundreds of real estate modeling…
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All About Careers in Real Estate Acquisitions

Real Estate Acquisitions professionals are generally responsible for helping source, analyze, perform due diligence on, and negotiate the purchase of new equity investments for their real estate investment firms. It's important to note that…
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All About Careers in Real Estate Development

Real estate development professionals, either working for themselves or their employer, create new places for people to live, work, shop, and play. This person typically is involved with the transaction from land sourcing through lease-up and…
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All About Careers in Real Estate Finance and Debt

Careers in real estate finance and debt encompass a wide range of roles and responsibilities, but generally professionals working in this area are responsible for originating, managing, sourcing, and/or assessing debt investments. Roles might…
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All About Real Estate Careers in Government and Non-Profit

A host of real estate related jobs are available at government and non-profit organizations. Examples of roles in this area might include business development professionals working with local developers and real estate investors to coordinate…
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All About Careers in Corporate Real Estate

The aggregate value of all commercial real estate holdings in the United States is in excess of $5 trillion, and a good percentage of that is wholly-owned by large companies/corporations. These companies are not in the business of investing…
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All About Careers in Real Estate Management

Once a real estate asset is acquired by an acquisitions professional or developed by a development professional, it falls to a team of real estate management professionals to operate the property successfully. This team is made up of property…
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All About Careers in Real Estate Consulting

Jobs in real estate consulting include work in a variety of areas such as appraisal and valuation, entitlement services, portfolio strategy, enterprise M&S, workplace strategy, location footprint strategy, site acquisition and analysis,…

A Note About The Limitations of Microsoft Excel in Modeling Real Estate

I think its important to point out that my All-in-One (Ai1) Underwriting Model for Real Estate Development and Acquisition is not a surefire replacement for your non-Excel valuation/underwriting solutions. In fact, it's likely you (or your employer)…
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All-in-One (Ai1) Walkthrough #5 – The Residual Land Value Calculation Module

This walkthrough, our fifth in the series, explains how the Residual Land Value Calculation module works and how to implement this tool into your analysis. You might recall, a few months back we discussed the concept of residual land value…
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Book Review: The Real Estate Game

Why I Liked Poorvu's, The Real Estate Game Whilst certain real estate technocrats may argue this book is overly simplistic, I politely disagree. I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting some of the more basic real estate fundamentals explored in the…
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All-in-One (Ai1) Walkthrough #4 – The Rate Matrix Module

This walkthrough, our fourth in the series, explains how the Rate Matrix module works and how to implement this tool into your analysis. The rate matrix concept is new to this site, and not commonly used in the industry. Nonetheless, given…
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Starting Out in CRE? 4 Ways to Get Hired Faster

I may be biased, but personally I think that commercial real estate is one of the most interesting, rewarding professions out there. From my time as an agency and tenant rep broker, to my current role as CEO of a real estate technology company,…
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All-in-One (Ai1) Walkthrough #3 – Modeling a Hypothetical Retail Development Investment

This walkthrough, our third in the series, takes you through the entire process of modeling a simple development investment. I've created hypothetical assumptions for this exercise written out in PDF format (download link below) and then use…
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Graduate Real Estate Series: USC’s Dollinger Master of Real Estate Development

The Dollinger Master of Real Estate Development program at The University of Southern California is an intense, one-year graduate real estate program that exposes students to many broad areas of commercial real estate. The USC Dollinger…
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Graduate Real Estate Series: Johns Hopkin’s MS in Real Estate and Infrastructure

The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School MS in Real Estate and Infrastructure program has been a leader in real estate education for over 27 years. Distinguished by it's location in the Carey Business School, the MS in Real Estate and Infrastructure…