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
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Product Review: The REsheets Tool Belt
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011Cap rates, cap rates, cap rates…
Friday, February 25th, 2011A 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: Google Public Data
Saturday, April 17th, 2010We 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, 2009Recently, 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, 2009One 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
Product Review: CMBS.com
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010One 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
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