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29th September 2009
For the astute commercial real estate investor, the cap rate [AKA Capitalization Rate] is an important financial number to consider. Here’s why:
Commercial Real Estate Earns Income
One main identifier that defines commercial real estate from othe... Read >
Author: wbdoyle29th September 2009
Real estate investing is serious business and can provide you with substantial returns to support a lavish lifestyle. However, you need to develop an investment strategy suitable to your individual budget and situation in order to maximize the return on y... Read >
Author: coreyfrank23rd September 2009
Loan consolidations are executed by both private institutions and the Federal institutions. When it comes to a Federal loan, the current debts of students are bought and closed by institutions specializing in debt consolidation. Nevertheless, since it's a... Read >
Author: Christoffer X Altesino30th August 2009
Cap rate and GRM (gross rent multiplier) are popular real estate investing measures regularly used by real estate agents and individual investors seeking to determine whether a rental property is, or is not, priced correctly and maybe might be a good inve... Read >
13th August 2009
One of the most misunderstood, but important, terms in real estate investing is the Capitalization Rate or CAP rate for short. This key metric is at the heart of all income property investments and allows investors to compare multiple properties to one an... Read >
Author: gaurav21st July 2009
Real estate investing has offered investors much better returns than most other investment options. Real estate investment is one of the safest investments available. The security of real estate investments is becoming more and more increased these days. ... Read >
Author: Jeff Adams20th July 2009
Real estate investing has offered investors much better returns than most other investment options. Real estate investment is one of the safest investments available. The security of real estate investments is becoming more and more increased these days. ... Read >
Author: Jeff Adams15th July 2009
So you have found a multifamily apartment and you would like to secure the deal. How do you close it if you want to hold it? Do you know the process that is involved? There is a simple 3 step process to follow to wrap up your apartment deal. It involv... Read >
11th July 2009
Real estate investing is serious business and can provide you with substantial returns to support a lavish lifestyle. However, you need to develop an investment strategy suitable to your individual budget and situation in order to maximize the return on y... Read >
Author: Charles 30th June 2009
Operating decisions be made on a timely basis in real estate investing. Day-to-day operations and long-run investment strategies based upon the real estate investor's portfolio both demand it. Successful investors never play dumb when it comes to decision... Read >
26th June 2009
The scenario analysis method provides a good measurement of real estate investment risk regularly used and favored by real estate analysts and individual investors.
What Scenario Analysis Is
Scenario analysis involves estimating a range of variable... Read >
23rd June 2009
Apartments here are numerous. But the challenge is securing the best one possible, especially in a city that has a high tenant turn over rate. In today's economy, it is important to make your apartment your home. That way you can avoid the high costs of m... Read >
Author: michael russell 12th June 2009
If you’re a commercial real estate investor then you’ve probably heard of cap rate. If you’re new to the commercial investment field then you’ll want to make it a priority to learn and understand what cap rate is and how it affects the industry. M... Read >
Author: joearts06th June 2009
If you’re a commercial real estate investor then you’ve probably heard of cap rate. If you’re new to the commercial investment field then you’ll want to make it a priority to learn and understand what cap rate is and how it affects the industry. M... Read >
Author: Patrick Gage06th June 2009
If you’re a commercial real estate investor then you’ve probably heard of cap rate. If you’re new to the commercial investment field then you’ll want to make it a priority to learn and understand what cap rate is and how it affects the industry. M... Read >
Author: Patrick Gage01st June 2009
Successful real estate investors never rely simply on what others tell them, or the numbers that they're handed. Once a prospective real estate investment has been located, prudent investors conduct a close examination of the rental property's income, exp... Read >
15th May 2009
As a residential agent, you overcome the largest hurdle and are well on your way to closing your first income property deal once you make the decision to sell multifamily property: The desire to sell more than houses is foremost.
In this article, I'll ... Read >
14th May 2009
Rental properties such as multi-family units, office buildings, warehouses, retail strip malls and similar properties that generate rental and other income can be valued using the capitalization rate approach.
This is particularly helpful when you want... Read >
11th May 2009
When will cap rates reach their peak and start falling? This is one of the key questions that real estate investors aiming at high returns need to answer in the current environment of rising capitalization rates.
This is a very important question beca... Read >
Author: Petros23rd March 2009
About a quarter of all homes sold in the United States over the last five years were purchased as investment properties. Surprising? Not really when you consider the historical high returns and price increases. Although today’s real estate market is dep... Read >
Author: Stefan10th March 2009
It sounds simple enough: you buy a rental property and let your tenants pay your mortgage while you watch the money accumulate in your bank account. But is it really that simple?
Before you buy an investment property, make sure you do your homework. A ... Read >
Author: Stefan10th March 2009
In this article, we want to discuss the meaning and formula for cap rate, and then explore how this popular rate of return is used in real estate investing by real estate investors and analysts to measure a rental property's profitability.
The formal m... Read >
Author: James Kobzeff02nd March 2009
The Economist recently published a study that found the investment in residential property in developed countries far outpaced commercial real estate investments. In fact residential investments totaled about $48 trillion dollars were as commercial inves... Read >
Author: Stefan09th January 2009
Whether you're a real estate agent assisting buyers and sellers with rental income property or an investor about to get started in real estate investing, chances are good you can use some real estate investing help. If not, then you probably know someone ... Read >
Author: James Kobzeff15th December 2008
Capitalization rate (or cap rate as it is more commonly called)is a rate of return at which you discount future income (net operating income) to determine its present value (price).
Although cap rate alone does not provide a true picture of a property'... Read >
01st December 2008
As a real estate professional that has sold real estate investment property for the past thirty years, I know how difficult it is to learn about real estate investing. It takes effort, some cost, and strong motivation.For most real estate agents, it's eas... Read >
Author: James Kobzeff10th November 2008
For the last decade, those of us in the real estate business have had to hear that the stock market was the world’s safest way to make 10% per year compounding. That there was no point in taking any risk by buying commercial real estate, since the stock... Read >
Author: Frank Rolfe23rd October 2008
Real Estate Investment Strategy
Real estate investing is serious business and can provide you with substantial returns to support a lavish lifestyle. However, you need to develop an investment strategy suitable to your individual budget and situation i... Read >
Author: Charles Petty21st October 2008
You only need one mobile home park. That’s all you need to create a sizable asset and a consistent source of income. That’s assuming you buy it and operate it correctly.
There has not been a better time to buy that one park in the last decade. Due ... Read >
Author: Frank Rolfe21st October 2008
Although it has taken us literally thousands of pages to describe how to do due diligence and operate mobile home parks effectively, the general theory on how to make money with mobile home park investments could fit on the back of an envelope.
These a... Read >
Author: Frank Rolfe09th September 2008
Net operating income (NOI) is one of the more important real estate investment calculations. Primarily because it represents the property's potential income after subtracting vacancy and operating expenses. In other words, net operating income represents ... Read >
22nd August 2008
Investing in commercial real estate is quite lucrative if you are an intelligent investor, who has a property purchase plan from the beginning. Before you ever make a move to begin the purchase process, it is wise to take a look at the property to projec... Read >
Author: Brice Sheppard21st August 2008
Investing in commercial real estate is quite lucrative if you are an intelligent investor, who has a property purchase plan from the beginning. Before you ever make a move to begin the purchase process, it is wise to take a look at the property to proj... Read >
Author: Brice Sheppard21st August 2008
Investing in commercial real estate is quite lucrative if you are an intelligent investor, who has a property purchase plan from the beginning. Before you ever make a move to begin the purchase process, it is wise to take a look at the property to projec... Read >
Author: Brice Sheppard22nd July 2008
A proforma is useful to real estate investors for the evaluation of an investment property's future cash flow performance because it reflects revenue and expense projections typically up to ten years, enabling the investor to evaluate the investment real ... Read >
08th July 2008
Buying multi-family homes or apartment buildings is one of the most profitable commercial real estate investments you can make. It doesn't matter whether you decide to live in one unit and rent out the rest of them, or if you rent out all the units and l... Read >
Author: Tony Seruga, Yolanda Seruga and Yolanda Bishop06th July 2008
For anyone in the commercial real estate industry, the cap rate, or capitalization rate, is an important piece of information. It plays a big part in how much a property sells for and helps tell you what you should pay. Commercial real estate investors,... Read >
Author: Tony Seruga, Yolanda Seruga and Yolanda Bishop30th June 2008
Real estate investing is becoming critical day by day. As businesses become more complicated and technologically oriented, day-to-day operations and stress of increasing workload are also becoming tougher to handle without expert help. To make the whole p... Read >
Author: BradWozny26th June 2008
Getting a commercial loan for an apartment building is considered one of the easier loans to get with respect to other investment properties. This is due to the fact that commercial lenders focus primarily on the subject property as the repayment source w... Read >
Author: John02nd June 2008
Your commercial real estate transaction does not close unless the loan is approved. You can also improve the cash flow if the interest rate for the loan is low. So the more you know about commercial loans the better decision you can make about your commer... Read >
Author: Chris Carter02nd April 2008
Capitalization rates, also called cap rates, are ratios used to determine an estimation of the value of properties that produce income. The cap rate is found by dividing net operating income by the sales price, or the value of a given property, when expr... Read >
Author: Tony Seruga, Yolanda Seruga and Yolanda Bishop04th February 2008
If you are an owner and wish to sale your hotel or motel – you have indeed a great opportunity to gain some good profit on your investment. However, the enhancement of the price should be always done ethically. There are a good number of underhand trick... Read >
Author: Brian Cliette22nd January 2008
Are you a real estate investor hoping to sell your property for the most money possible? There are ways to manage your property that will get you the best profit while you own in and when the time comes to sell. If you incorporate some of these tips, an... Read >
Author: Tony Seruga, Yolanda Seruga and Yolanda Bishop06th February 2007
A SECRET STRATEGY TO TURN LOSERS INTO WINNERS
I received a question from a Realtor last week that will give you insight into a purchase strategy that you can use with a commercial property whose current cash flow can’t support a loan large enough to ... Read >
Author: craighigdon24th January 2007
I had the opportunity this past week to answer a number of questions about apartments. I find a great deal of misinformation out there concerning the financing of this excellent type of income producing investment. Before going into some common misconce... Read >
Author: craighigdon18th January 2007
Real estate is defined by Investor Words as ?A piece of land, including the air above it and the ground below it, and any buildings or structures on it, also called realty?. That of course is the permanent value on which all the rest of the market value i... Read >
Author: Robert Palmer19th September 2006
You may be familiar with the gross rent multiplier. This simple formula for determining the value of rental real estate has been around for ages. The first book I read on investing in real estate advised me to "never buy a property with a GRM of more than... Read >
Author: Steve Gillman22nd July 2006
Be careful when buying rental property. We stayed at a motel for a week one winter. The bill showed twice what it should have, but since I already paid the correct amount in cash, I thought nothing of it. When we noticed that the lobby and swimming pool w... Read >
Author: Steve Gillman20th July 2006
Real estate appraisal for rental properties isn't the same as for single family homes. If you were looking at a 24-unit building, it would be difficult to find similar ones nearby that have recently sold. Therefore, a market analysis using comparable sale... Read >
Author: Steve Gillman17th July 2006
There are real estate investing "tricks" and techniques that you may know, or want to know. There are new ways of doing things that are worth learning. Knowing about the latest types of financing is another way can also help. Before all of these, however,... Read >
Author: Steve Gillman03rd July 2006
Purchasing an apartment complex as an investment is a fantastic way to watch an asset single handedly generate thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dollars in a very short amount of time!
A popular investment strategy, especially for new investors,... Read >
Author: Tony Seruga, Yolanda Seruga and Yolanda Bishop29th June 2006
As a commercial real estate insider, you will need to evaluate income producing properties. You do this by analyzing the income and expense sheets of the subject property in which you are interested.
Income and expense sheets do not involve fancy finan... Read >
Author: Tony Seruga, Yolanda Seruga and Yolanda Bishop18th June 2006
In commercial real estate, cap rate, or capitalization rate, is used to determine the values of income producing properties such as apartments of five units or more, office buildings, strip malls and other such properties. The cap rate can represent extre... Read >
Author: Tony Seruga, Yolanda Seruga and Yolanda Bishop09th May 2006
How much real estate math do you need to know if you are investing in real estate? There are computers and calculators for calculating interest rates or amortizing loans. What you need to know is a few simple formulas for determining if a property is a go... Read >
Author: Steve Gillman25th April 2006
What Are Equity Index Annuities?
There is a new class of annuity that provides a portion of market index performance with a no-loss provision. It is known as the equity index annuity. This new type of annuity is not a security, as you might suspect, b... Read >
Author: Richard Evans05th April 2006
Selling income property isn't like selling a house. You can paint a house, and get a little more because it looks nice. Rental property is different, because it's bought by investors, who look at income more than new paint. Raise income, and you increase ... Read >
Author: Steve Gillman19th January 2006
Real estate success? It happens by way of the many things you repeatedly do right, and it is your habits that ensure they get done. Here are some habits to develop for your real estate investing success.
Ask for people's names, and tell them yours. Peo... Read >
Author: Steve Gillman13th July 2005
With the never-ending changes in our Real Estate Markets real estate professionals are starting to pay attention to the sound of new commission streams of income. Some realtors have either shied away or ran-away from such terms as "Cap Rate," & "Cash-on-C... Read >
Author: John Roush
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