Many real estate projects need analysis and functions that traditional templates and software do not offer, so many organisations develop their own financial models or templates. A template that serves a range of uses has to balance complexity against transparency.
Drawing on client projects and courses for real estate clients, Shaun Comley in Sydney and Rael Levinsohn in London set out which functions to include and show examples of how to build them.
What you will learn
- Understand the functions a real estate financial model needs to scale to different uses
- See where industry software falls short, and why many developers, asset managers and financiers build their own models
- Identify how a real estate model differs from M&A and project finance models
- Learn the usual categories of real estate model and the functions each one needs