
Build a dynamic Excel model to compute expense reimbursement income using index and match, selecting from triple net, full service, gross modified gross, or base year stop by year.
Learn to model percentage rent over a 10-year period in Excel, calculating base rent, tenant health ratio, natural breakpoint, and the percentage rent owed.
Learn to model tenant improvements and leasing commissions in a 10-year commercial lease, calculating TI allowances, scheduled and net base rent, free rent, and commissions.
Explore weighted average renewal modeling for commercial leases by integrating renewal probability, in-place expirations, market rent scenarios, downtime, free rent, allowances, and leasing commissions to project cash flows.
Build a tenant cash flow summary table to compare base rent, free rent, reimbursements, percentage rent, tenant improvements, and leasing commissions, releasing cash flow and prepare an npv analysis.
Build an annual cash flow dashboard for commercial real estate leases by mapping tenant assumptions, occupancy, operating expense reimbursements, net operating income, and annual tenant cash flow.
Build and format in-place reimbursement structures table in excel with four columns for expenses, modified gross, base-year stop, and base-year stop amount; include property taxes, insurance, cam, and management fee.
Build the rent escalation schedule for the in-place lease in Excel, outlining start and end dates, rent per square foot per year, and automatic annual increases.
Set up two header rows with dynamic cell combinations to show total cash flows and suite and tenant names, using a concatenation formula for labels in the cash flow model.
Build and format monthly operating expenses for commercial real estate leases, including property taxes, insurance, common area maintenance, and management fees, using a consistent month-end timeline and blue manual inputs.
Set up placeholder monthly operating expenses and create dynamic formulas applying annual growth to taxes and insurance and monthly growth to cam and other costs, and calculate total operating expenses.
Learn to model in-place reimbursements in commercial leases using Excel formulas, handling triple net, full service gross, modified gross, and base year stop structures with pro rata shares.
Model upfront free rent by timing when a vacant suite starts a new lease. Negate in-place base rent during the six month upfront period; apply releasing based rent after expiration.
Model re-leasing free rent using timing triggers, weighted downtime, and renewal probability to determine months of free rent for new and renewal leases.
Models releasing leasing commissions within a releasing scenario, calculating releasing base rent, downtime, free rent, renewal probability, and the total net sweet cash flow.
Calculate total tenant cash flows over a 10-year analysis using the summary tab and create cash flow codes for base rent, reimbursements, and leasing commissions.
Group cells to simplify the rent roll and view ten tenants at a glance, then dynamically copy, paste, and consolidate leases for tenant cash flows analysis.
Learn to build dynamic occupancy calculations in Excel using index, match, and countif to compute each tenant's occupied square footage per month, including in-place and releasing base rent.
convert the monthly cash flow tab to an annual view for a 10-year analysis by setting year endings and trimming columns. create a dynamic formula to sum yearly line items.
Learn to build annual operating metrics by dynamically calculating net operating income and total tenant cash flow across the analysis period using if statements and index-match.
Build a dynamic tenant cash flow chart in Excel to display annual net operating income and total tenant cash flow through year 10, using a currency area chart.
Want to learn how to model complex commercial real estate leases in Microsoft Excel from scratch, even without ARGUS?
This course is a complete, step-by-step guide to modeling commercial leases for retail, office, and industrial real estate. This is a project-based course, meaning you'll start with a blank Excel workbook and walk away with a fully-functional, dynamic, commercial lease model that YOU'VE created - from scratch.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to build a dynamic, professional-quality commercial real estate lease model from scratch, and your first one will be done by the time you finish the last lecture.
This course will teach you how to model things like multiple tenant lease terms and expiration dates, complex reimbursement structures, renewal probability and downtime, tenant improvement allowances, leasing commissions, and much, much more. At the end of this course, you will be able to:
Build an institutional-quality, dynamic commercial real estate lease model from scratch
Learn key Excel shortcuts to double your real estate financial modeling speed
Model multiple lease structures and quickly and easily model complex reimbursement structures (NNN, FSG, MG, & BYS)
Use renewal probability to accurately drive your future cash flows at a commercial property
Build a dynamic lease structure that models irregular rent increases (or decreases) and dynamically changes cash flows with the click of a button
Model dynamic leasing commissions on a commercial deal, even if you have different agreements for different periods of a lease
Build out percentage rent formulas to model percentage rent payments for retail tenants based on net sales
Create easy-to-view annual cash flow roll-ups to quickly review your work and present to investors or colleagues
This course is perfect for you if:
You're a college student or graduate student looking to break into real estate investment after graduation, and you're looking to add the key technical skill sets to your arsenal that will put you head and shoulders above the competition and allow you to land a lucrative career opportunity in the field
You're a professional in a different field, but looking to buy real estate on the side and want to be able to confidently analyze a commercial deal
You're an existing real estate professional looking to advance your career, increase your compensation, and break into the real estate investment industry.
You've bought rental homes or duplexes, and now you're looking to move into bigger commercial properties and want to feel confident in your ability to analyze deals.
Here's what some of our students have had to say:
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★★★★★"Brilliant Justin. Each course I do I get more confident and regularly use the skills and formula writing at work. The great think about these courses is that they revolve around the same base. Each time you complete a different course the base knowledge is reinforced and then built upon."
★★★★★"This course I found to be complete in all aspects of Commercial Lease Modeling, combined with Justin's teaching style, really enables me to look at Commercial lease modeling opportunities with a renewed sense of understanding, and confidence."
If you have a basic understanding of real estate finance, and you're looking to apply that knowledge to analyze new commercial real estate investment opportunities, enroll now and let's get started building this model together today. Looking forward to having you in the course!