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A chance to join the summer 2017 Linneman Associates / Valuate software Global Economic Outlook Webcast for free

For more than 40 years, Dr. Peter Linneman's unique blend of scholarly rigor and practical business insight has won him accolades from around the world, including PREA's prestigious Graaskamp Award for Real Estate Research, Wharton's Zell-Lurie Real Estate Center's Lifetime Achievement Award, Realty Stock Magazine's Special... read more →
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How to do a back of the envelope analysis for developing a commercial office building

If you're trying to determine if the asking price for an office development site will allow it to pencil, your first pass analysis should be a quick, back of the envelope calculation. Back of the envelope (BOTE) analysis purposefully solves for a fictitious stabilized yield on cost assuming today's development... read more →
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In Plain English: the IRR look-back mechanism used in JV cash flow waterfalls

There's sometimes misunderstanding as it relates to cash flow waterfall modeling with mixing up of the terms catch-up, clawback and look-back. To be clear, each is completely its own concept. In this post we will shed some needed light on the look-back mechanism. (We've previously addressed catch-up and clawback in separate posts.) Look-back relates... read more →
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