Archive for the ‘Product Reviews’ Category

Product Review: The REsheets Tool Belt

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Over the last week or so, we've had the opportunity to tinker with the REsheets Tool Belt. This MS Excel-based financial modeling package includes 13 analysis templates. These simple-to-use and understand worksheets allow for analysis on several real estate asset types and situations, including apartments, commercial (i.e. retail, office and ... More

Cap rates, cap rates, cap rates…

Friday, February 25th, 2011

A large percentage of our organic web hits are from people looking for cap rates. There are plenty of websites which define what a cap rate is and how to calculate one, but we regularly receive inquires as to where the best place is to look up reliable cap rates. . So....without ... More

Product Review: CMBS.com

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

One website we recently stumbled upon is CMBS.com. This website is an invaluable resource for CRE sales and mortgage brokers, as well as pure principal investors. Their CMBS Leads product allows users to search for securitized loans which are maturing, watch listed, specially serviced, in foreclosure or REO. If you ... More

Product Review: Google Public Data

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

We all know Google has their hands in a little bit of everything. One of the most useful and cost effective (can you say free?) utilities Google now offers is their public data graphing application. Until now, many researchers had one of two options to compile, analyze and illustrate economic ... More

Review: REALOGIC Tools

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Recently, we downloaded a trial version of REALOGIC Tools. This program is an Excel add-in for extracting ARGUS data into a much more transparent and manageable file format. Prior to this we (as many others do) exported the ARGUS output into a new Excel spreadsheet, wrote new formulas to better ... More

Review: Logmein.com

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

One resource we can't live without is Logmein.com. This site allows us to access our desktop computer anywhere we have a web browser and an internet connection. Logmein.com even lets you try it for free, giving you full access to your desktop, but without some of the more advanced features ... More