Commercial Real Estate Investing 101
What you'll learn
- The foundational concepts necessary to analyze commercial real estate investment opportunities
- The key return metrics institutional investors use to evaluate deals
- How equity and debt are used to capitalize a commercial real estate transaction (and the pros and cons of each capital source)
- The key commercial real estate loan and lease terms that impact commercial property investment performance
Requirements
- Students should have access to Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets
Description
Want to break into commercial real estate, but not sure where to start? Built by an instructor with over $1.5 billion of commercial real estate transaction experience, this course blends the core, foundational concepts of commercial real estate investment analysis with hands-on, practical application using Excel exercises, sample deal scenarios, and pre-built CRE investment analysis templates.
This course is for you if you're looking to:
Land a job in the commercial real estate industry - CRE can be an incredibly lucrative business, and this course will provide you with the investment analysis frameworks used by the largest institutions and private equity firms in the business.
Make your own commercial real estate investments - This course will walk you through the underwriting and valuation process used to value multifamily, industrial, retail, and office property acquisitions.
Invest as a passive, limited partner in a commercial real estate syndication or fund - This course walks through core commercial real estate investment analysis topics, including commercial leasing, loan sizing, key return metrics, the effects of leverage, and how different JV equity waterfall structures can impact investment performance.
This course includes graduate-level content that's taught every year in top universities across the globe, practically applied to real-life investment scenarios you might come across in the commercial real estate industry.
Here's what some of our students have had to say after taking the course:
★★★★★ "Awesome class. Engaging & real life application. Examples are well thought out and leave you wanting to learn more. On to the next 2 classes by Justin! Great teacher."
★★★★★ "This course is PERFECT. It covers everything you need to know about CRE and it is organized in a very clean and logical way. Mr. Kivel makes you understand the subject of the course easily, it is almost magic! Thank you, this is the most useful course I've done so far."
★★★★★ "This course is spot on! With almost no commercial real estate background, I really needed a deep dive into this topic that was easy to understand and absorb and this course delivered. I'm really impressed by the models and the instructor's depth of knowledge and clarity of explanations. Looking forward to his future courses!"
If you're looking to start your career in commercial real estate, make your own CRE investments, or invest in commercial real estate as a passive, limited partner, you've come to the right place.
Looking forward to seeing you in class!
Who this course is for:
- Aspiring investors looking to make their first commercial real estate investment
- Aspiring commercial real estate professionals looking to land a job at a top CRE firm
- Residential real estate investors and agents looking to work on bigger deals
- Non-real estate professionals considering investing in a commercial real estate syndication or fund
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- 4.8 Instructor Rating
- 33,470 Reviews
- 87,194 Students
- 20 Courses
Master real estate financial modeling, advance your career, and earn more money.
If you’re an aspiring real estate investment professional looking to break into the real estate investment field, or a current real estate professional looking to advance your career and increase your compensation, you’re in the right place.
My name is Justin Kivel, and I’m a real estate investment professional with a love for teaching. Throughout my career, I’ve worked on over $1.5 billion of closed acquisitions across multifamily, retail, office, and mixed-use properties. I’ve had the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in real estate investing and have spent almost a decade in the industry across private equity, finance, and brokerage roles.
Unfortunately, most of what I know today I had to learn on the job. Although great courses exist on Microsoft Excel and financial modeling, I couldn’t find a resource that was specifically tailored toward real estate investment professionals that would actually walk me through exactly what I needed to know to succeed in the real estate investment industry.
These courses are that resource.
After dozens of phone calls and coffee meetings with college students and aspiring real estate investment professionals, I realized that most people were asking exactly what I was asking when I was in their shoes.
“What skills do I actually need to know to break into the real estate investment industry, or advance in my current real estate investment career?”
These courses were created to teach you those skills.
Our students have gone on to land jobs at some of the top real estate investment, development, and brokerage firms across the globe, including Brookfield Asset Management, Hines, Starwood Capital Group, LaSalle Investment Management, Eastdil Secured, JLL, CBRE, and many more.
Over 70,000 current and aspiring real estate investment professionals have used these courses to help them ace real estate financial modeling interview exams to land their dream jobs, secure consulting gigs with top private equity firms, build (and rebuild) entire financial models from scratch, and confidently analyze their own potential real estate investments.
So whatever that next step in your real estate investment career looks like, these courses are here to help you get there as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Looking forward to seeing you in class!