Real Estate Financial Modeling Accelerator (Updated Nov 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…
Nuevo Contenido en Español (Actualizado Diciembre 2024)
Ver y leer nuevo contenido en español. Este contenido ha sido creado por el equipo A.CRE para profesionales en la inversion inmobiliaria. Tutoriales, modelos financieros, educación, y mucho más.
AI Tools for Commercial Real Estate (Fall 2024 Edition)
If you haven't noticed, we've been exploring use cases, training, and tools related to AI in commercial real estate a lot lately! The reason is that Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to revolutionize the commercial real estate industry…
Ask Me Anything with A.CRE (Next Host – Mark Leverette)
We’re excited to announce that our next A.CRE AMA session will feature Mark Leverette, a seasoned professional with 20 years of experience in audit, risk assurance, and business process outsourcing. Mark has worked across diverse industries,…
List of A.CRE Accelerator Graduates (Updated Dec 2024)
This certifies that the following individuals have successfully completed the 17-course, A.CRE real estate financial modeling Accelerator. Having shown a proficiency in all aspects of real estate financial modeling and having demonstrated an…
Best Practices in Real Estate Financial Modeling (Updated Nov 2024)
Before you use one of our real estate financial models (i.e. Excel templates), or before you set out to build your own real estate analysis tool in Excel, it's important to keep in mind a few real estate financial modeling best practices. This…
Learning Real Estate Financial Modeling in Excel (Updated Oct 2024)
We're often asked by our readers how we learned to be proficient in real estate financial modeling. The question usually arises because the person wants to know how to model real estate in Excel to either land a job in commercial real estate…
Watch Me Build a Dynamic Mortgage Amortization Table in Excel (Updated September 2024)
There are a few basic, yet fundamental, real estate modeling skills you must master before anyone will take you seriously as a real estate professional. Building a mortgage amortization schedule is one of them.
Virtually every model you…
Deep Dive – Land Acquisition and Assemblage (Updated September 2024)
This is a topic I'm all too familiar with. You see, I cut my teeth in real estate largely sourcing and negotiating residential and mixed-use land acquisition opportunities. I've put land deals together both as a fiduciary and as a principal,…
Watch Me Build a Residential Land Development Model (Updated Sept 2024)
Over the years, we've created a sizable library of Watch Me Build videos covering Excel models for various real estate investment and property types. However, we've yet to create a Watch Me Build involving for-sale product. So this weekend,…
Watch Me Build a 3-Tier Real Estate Equity Waterfall Model (Updated Aug 2024)
As I've mentioned in other Watch Me Build posts, one way to become a better real estate financial modeling professional, is to watch other professionals model. Thus, the more exposure you can get to other's methods, the more adept a real estate…
Exploring Tokenization in Commercial Real Estate
I have always been interested in developing technology trends, and, in the spirit of exploring future possibilities in our industry, I wanted to discuss a developing trend of tokenization in commercial real estate. If you're not yet familiar…
A.CRE 101: How To Use The Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Method To Value Income Producing Property (Updated Aug 2024)
The Discounted Cash Flow Method is a method to value a project by taking all future projected cash flows of the project and discounting them back to time zero (date of purchase) using a predetermined discount rate (the discount rate when used…
How to Run Monte Carlo Simulations in Excel (Updated Aug 2024)
So you want to run Monte Carlo simulations in Excel, but your project isn't large enough or you don't do this type of probabilistic analysis enough to warrant buying an expensive add-in. Well, you've come to the right place. Excel's built-in…
Through The Entitlement Process: Identifying Risks and Strategies For Mitigation (Updated Aug 2024)
Investing in and developing an unentitled site, broadly speaking, is one of the riskiest, yet rewarding, endeavors in the commercial real estate industry. The entitlement process, in particular, is fraught with the potential for setbacks and…