Introduction   The Joint Venture distribution structure, aka the Waterfall, determines the allocation of profits among the equity investors and managers in a real estate project or transaction.  Typically as a project achieves different return requirements, called hurdles, this allocation of profits between the parties changes.  For this reason the Waterfall is often considered the most complex … Continue reading The Real Estate Joint Venture Waterfall

Introduction The previous post reviewed two of the fundamental problems with the typical approach to modeling future real estate leases, namely a failure to address the uncertainties and nonlinearities embedded in the analysis. The proposed solution for these issues is to use simulation based methods.  The example model presented in the last post simulated the … Continue reading Adding Rent to the Vacancy Model

Introduction This post is part of a series of posts that will demonstrate the benefits of adopting simulation as the mode of analysis for real estate investment valuation.  The focus of this post is how to conduct a lease analysis without relying on simplistic averages and blended rates that fail to properly account for uncertainty … Continue reading Modeling Vacancy – A Monte Carlo Approach