by josh@kahrrealestate.com | Feb 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
One of the more common questions that I get from students is: “What is the first step to building a financial model?” The first step to building a financial model in Excel can be scary. You don’t want to spend time going down the wrong path and then...
by josh@kahrrealestate.com | Jan 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
In addition to my usual once every 5 week Excel for real estate analysis class that I do in New York City, I’ll be doing a 1/2 day basic class for non-financial professionals at two locations at the end of March. Both are sponsored by the Urban Land Institute....
by josh@kahrrealestate.com | Dec 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
We just delivered an Excel for Real Estate modeling class for a private equity client in Nairobi, Kenya. This isn’t to say that we haven’t done international classes before; I did a lot of them back in 2007 (Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Dubai, etc.) before...
by josh@kahrrealestate.com | Oct 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
Don’t like paying for electricity? Here’s an interesting angle. With “community solar”, instead of putting a solar panel on your house, you buy a panel in a pool and then the production is credited to you. The company, Arcadia Solar, does this...
by josh@kahrrealestate.com | Sep 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
In addition to following the usual commercial real estate blogs, I periodically find myself pulled down various rabbit holes when it’s related to energy or transportation as both have huge impacts on the built environment. My favorite “what if”...
by josh@kahrrealestate.com | Jul 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
After multiple deadlines, the day is finally upon us. Argus DCF is going away and AE is officially taking over. The drop-dead date was 6/30/17. Of course, some users will continue to use DCF long past the 6/30 date; just because the date has passed, it doesn’t...