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Thoughts and insights about valuing real estate. Regularly updated with posts that apply to what is happening today.

  1. Management Agreements are growing in popularity, but does everyone truly understand the risks and rewards? By directly exposing Landlords to potentially volatile Space-as-a-Service income, having a strong financial model that accurately reflect the Management Agreement becomes key for both Landlords and Operators.

    Delivery model selection: Management Agreement
  2. When you don't own the real estate and a large amount of your costs are fixed, it's a high wire act. Operating efficiency is the name of the game...for both the Operator and the Landlord. A deep dive into the first of three Space-as-a-Service delivery models: Lease Arbitrage.

    Delivery model selection: Lease Arbitrage
  3. Flexible leasing entails a different method of calculating property values—and the investors who figure this out stand to profit while everyone else tries to catch up.

    A profitable trader during a market squeeze.
  4. Stuck between a market that is demanding flexible leases and an ecosystem that is optimized for traditional, long-term leasing, landlords are facing a potential market squeeze that will cause a large loss in value.

    Dejected traders after a market crash.
  5. Under international accounting standards, how an asset is used can affect its valuations—as long as that use isn't unique. With Space-as-a-Service growing in popularity, we're risking disaster the longer we take to include it within the definition of 'Highest & Best Use'.

    Truck crashing into low clearance bridge spilling money.
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