Real Estate Financial Modeling Accelerator (Updated June 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…
All-in-One (Ai1) Model for Underwriting Development and Acquisitions (Updated Jul 2024)
As many of you recall, in 2015 I set out to build an Excel alternative to the widely-used (and now discontinued) ARGUS DCF. With career moves and a lot of other A.CRE-related side projects, this undertaking has been slow going. Alas, in 2016…
Understanding Leases: Office Buildings – Part 2b
Grossing Up Reimbursable Expenses in ARGUS
This post and video are a follow up to a post written back in late October discussing grossing up reimbursable expenses. If you haven’t gotten to read that yet, you can do so by clicking here:…
MS Excel Alternative to ARGUS DCF
It is little secret among our readers that I view ARGUS DCF as a necessary evil. On the one hand, it is the industry standard for underwriting real estate. Virtually every broker package for institutional quality deals comes with an ARGUS run,…
Free ARGUS DCF Training
UPDATE: ARGUS stopped selling ARGUS DCF at the end of 2015 and will stop supporting the software all together in 2017. The company no longer offers public training for DCF. You'll also note that the YouTube video tutorial for DCF has been taken…