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Commercial Real Estate Investing 101

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Overview

The Comprehensive Beginner's Guide to Multifamily, Industrial, Retail, and Office Real Estate Investing

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

Want to break intocommercial 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 CREinvestment analysis templates.

This course is for you if you're looking to:

  • Land ajob 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 JVequity waterfall structures can impact investment performance.

This course includesgraduate-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!

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Commercial Real Estate Product Types
  • Commercial Property Fundamentals
  • Commercial Real Estate Revenue
  • Commercial Real Estate Operating Expenses
  • Commercial Real Estate Capital Expenses
  • Commercial Real Estate Debt Financing
  • Commercial Real Estate Investment Analysis
  • The Capital Stack & JV Equity Partnerships
  • Commercial Real Estate Tax Considerations
  • Wrapping Up
  • Bonus Lecture

Taught by

Justin Kivel

Reviews

4.7 rating at Udemy based on 2353 ratings

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