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Real Estate Financial Modeling Accelerator (Updated October 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…
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Deep Dive – Land Acquisition and Assemblage (Updated September 2024)

This is a topic I'm all too familiar with. You see, I cut my teeth in real estate largely sourcing and negotiating residential and mixed-use land acquisition opportunities.  I've put land deals together both as a fiduciary and as a principal,…
Through The Entitlement Process
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Through The Entitlement Process: Identifying Risks and Strategies For Mitigation (Updated Aug 2024)

Investing in and developing an unentitled site, broadly speaking, is one of the riskiest, yet rewarding, endeavors in the commercial real estate industry. The entitlement process, in particular, is fraught with the potential for setbacks and…
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Ground Lease Valuation Model (Updated May 2024)

The topic of ground leases has come up several times in the past few weeks. Numerous A.CRE readers have emailed to ask for a purpose-built Ground Lease Valuation Model. And I'm in the process of creating an Advanced Concepts Module for our real…
Real estate land development project
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Land Equity – Collaborative Development Strategies with the Landowner

In this article, we'll talk about land equity development strategies where the landowner contributes their land to the partnership. In these situations, land ownership is either immediately conveyed or deferred until development is complete.…