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Benefits of Multifamily Investment & Challenges
Multifamily Investment and Multifamily Real Estate – What is it? As the term suggests, multifamily investment is putting the investment in multifamily real estate units. In order to understand the value and profile of the multifamily Investing, it is first important...
Real Estate Feasibility Analysis – Key Success Factor
How to maximize the Benefits of Maintenance Investment with the Economic Value Added (EVA) Driver Tree
Economic Value Added (EVA) is the incremental difference in the rate of return over a company's cost of capital. We use it to measure the value a company generates from funds invested in it. A value driver tree is a graphical representation of the relationships...
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Trends & Opportunities in Indian Hospitality Sector
HVS India has released the Trends & Opportunities Report for the Indian hospitality sector. The report also outlines existing and future opportunities in the hospitality industry of specific interest to investors, developers and hotel operators. This report is...
Net Present Value and Returns to the Equity Holders
Net present value (NPV) is defined as the sum of the present values of the individual cash flows (both incoming and outgoing) of a series of cash flows. In other words, it is the current worth of a future sum of money or stream of cash flows at a certain discount...
How to Create Loan Amortization Schedule in Excel?
A loan amortization schedule in Excel can be created either by using a template or creating a custom schedule - the easiest method will be using the template which is already in your Excel package. Alternatively, we can create a custom loan amortization schedule using...
Why we don’t use Excel’s MIRR formula?
MIRR Formula In the previous post we discussed various excel formulas to calculate IRR, and we know for sure that the modified internal rate of return (MIRR) is a better performance indicator than the internal rate of return (IRR). But why don't we always calculate...
Excel Errors Costing Business Billions
This post talks about Excel Errors that are costing billions to businesses. We have all read about the Harvard economists Reinhart and Rogoff's most famous finding that countries with a debt exceeding 90 per cent of their annual GDP experienced slower growth than...
IRR Calculation in Excel: Formulae and Use
IRR calculation in Excel can be done using three different formulae - IRR, XIRR and MIRR. In this post we will be discussing syntax and specific use of each formula. If you want to understand the basic of IRR calculation in general, you must see this post NVP &...