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Cap Rates Demystified

8/31/2019

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Clients and students are always fascinated by capitalization rates, or “cap rates”: Why are they different from place to place, property type to property type, and overall building quality reflected by its construction and management. Moreover, what do those cap rates really mean? How should they be interpreted and utilized for investment decision-making or other purposes such as a refinance or tax assessments? In this article, we define and analyze cap rates. We then discuss what is driving cap rates to further explain the observed cap rate differences amongst properties.
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Proactive and Creative Value-Add

9/2/2018

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Proactive & Creative Value-Add
Asset Value-Add
An investment property, either owner-managed or managed by a professional management company can be either routinely managed to realize average returns or pro-actively managed to obtain superior returns.

Real estate investments generally fall into three categories – core, value-add, and opportunistic. Each category is attractive to and serves the risk-return appetite of certain type of investors.


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Coffee & Cap Rates – A Bi-Annual Discussion About the NYC Investment Sales Market Presented by Ariel Property Advisors

8/5/2018

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This year’s bi-annual discussion was held on July 26th. Shimon Shkury, President of Ariel Property Advisors presented an overview of the New York City investment sales market. Following which Michael Stoler, President of New York Real Estate TV, LLC moderated the discussion participated by a panel consisting of Paulo Garcia, Sr. VP, Mercantile Bank, Sorabh Maheshwari, Founder Partner, Churchill Real Estate Holdings, Eli Weiss, Principal, Joy Construction Corp. and Susi Yu, Managing Director, L&L MAG.
...comment is free, but
​facts are sacred.
​- C.P. Scott

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Property Valuation: Why Do You Need It?

8/16/2016

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Property valuations or appraisals are commonly used when we consider buying or selling a property, lending on a property, buy out a partner, buy or sell partial interests (such as the remaining years on a lease), reposition or repurpose the property, in estate settlements and in a myriad of other uses and purposes.

In general, the result sought in a formal appraisal assignment is the answer to an essential question: “what is it worth?” But  the question of valuation and the worth of the property is generally part of a larger issue that the client is trying to solve. As noted real estate teacher and appraiser William M. Kinnard, Jr. said, “Real estate appraisals are made because someone has a problem.”

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Foreign Investment Capital – U.S. Outlook for 2016

7/20/2016

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Foreign Investment Capital – U.S. Outlook for 2016
Most real property investors are in the game for the long run. They look for superior yet stable returns in an increasingly unstable and uncertain geo-economic-political world. Coming years seem very positive for real property investments in the U.S.

Please read my article titled "Foreign Investment Capital – U.S. Outlook for 2016” that appeared in the summer 2016 edition of CRE Finance World magazine. The article provides a review of the past and an interesting glimpse of the coming years in foreign investment capital.

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​The magazine, courtesy of respective publisher, can be found here.​
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Right “Value” is a Win-Win for All

5/28/2016

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Last week I was at an international young professionals event that was meant to connect local and international young professionals in New York. I had the pleasure of meeting, among many other international New Yorkers, with Zack, a young man in his late 20’s perhaps, engaged in digital communication industry and in the process of buying his first home – a residential condominium in Brooklyn.  ​
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
 - Warren Buffet

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