Goal Seek is one of the most powerful features in Excel, and it's really easy and fun to use. Goal Seek allows you to back-solve for a single input value... read more →
Here's what's new with Valuate in December 2015 For apartment and storage properties: there is now an input for # of units, and reporting of per-unit pricing for purchase and... read more →
Just like a company traded on the stock market, an income-producing real estate property can be valued based on the sum of the discounted values of its future expected cash flows. This is known... read more →
** Note: be sure to see the bottom of this post, where we have links to another 10 posts on cap rates. ** A "cap rate" (short for capitalization rate)... read more →
Whether you're accessing our new back of the envelope calculator from your desktop computer, tablet or phone, here are a few tips to help you get through your analyses with... read more →
For all you multi-family property buyers and investors in the audience... please note that the Apartment Property Acquisition Back of the Envelope Excel template file previously offered at getrefm.com is... read more →
2-way sensitivity tables allow you to show a spectrum of equity IRR, Multiple and NPV outputs at the intersection of variable values of two key inputs. By viewing these differing outputs... read more →
Is there such a thing as the perfect sale comp (comparable sale)? Sure, but it's a rare bird. Let's assume we have a two-tower office complex and that the buildings... read more →
Property buyers are inundated with deal flow right now, so they are forced to get picky with which deals to screen into their pipeline. In the e-book below, you will... read more →
Let's say you know you want to purchase properties at a particular going-in cap rate, say 6%. If you know that much, you can back-solve to the Purchase Price that... read more →