What this career involves
- What professionals do
- Finance, buy and develop property using debt, equity and carefully modeled returns.
- Skills that help
- Property underwriting
- Cap rates and debt terms
- Equity waterfalls
- Market research
- Typical routes in
- People enter through real estate investment firms, lenders, developers and banks, often after analyst programs or real estate coursework.
Who this fits
Students leaning toward real estate private equity, lending or development, and finance majors who want a hands-on model beyond the textbook.
A learning sequence
- Model one small apartment building with rent, vacancy, operating costs and a mortgage.
- Add a simple equity waterfall with a preferred return and see who is paid first.
- Change the exit cap rate by half a point and watch the sale price move.
The resources
A Simple Model free spreadsheet downloads
Get three-statement, DCF, LBO and debt schedules.
A.CRE model hub
Practice commercial-property acquisition and development models.
Adventures in CRE learning and models
Study investment, debt, equity waterfalls and underwriting.
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