Real Estate Financial Modeling Accelerator (Updated September 2023)
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…
Understanding Treatment of Time 0 in the All-in-One Model
I received a very astute question/concern from a user of our All-in-One(Ai1) model in our Ai1 Support Forum late last month. I initially set out to answer the question in writing, but the more I thought about my response, the more I concluded…
All About Cap Ex
In this post, we are going to take a deeper look into capital expenditures. What it is and how we account for it in cre underwriting.
Capital expenditures, commonly referred to as Cap Ex, are expenses that occur outside of normal operating…
The A.CRE Method For Doing Cap Rate Mental Math – Practice Tool
At the bottom of this post is a downloadable practice tool for the A.CRE Method for doing cap rate mental math. The tool will generate an endless number of random cap rates and NOIs to practice with and will walk you step by step through how…
A.CRE 101: How To Use The Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Method To Value Income Producing Property
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 Use Debt Yield to Calculate Loan Amount
In our glossary of commercial real estate terms, we recently answered the question: what is debt yield? As a follow up to that entry, I thought I’d expand on the concept of debt yield by showing you how lenders use debt yield to come up with…